Whilst talking about his new movie Operation Finale to USA Today, Oscar Isaac talks about how Carrie Fisher is never far from his mind….
Passing the Carrie Fisher Building at Pinewood Studios outside London while filming “Star Wars: Episode IX” is a bittersweet reminder for Oscar Isaac that the legendary actress is never far from his thoughts.
It “always” feels like she’s around while cast and crew are filming the final chapter of the long-running Skywalker saga, Isaac says. “Of course she’s with us.”
“Episode IX” (in theaters Dec. 20, 2019) is the first “Star Wars” film for Isaac, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and the rest of the returning “The Last Jedi” cast since Fisher’s death in 2016.
Returning “Force Awakens” director J.J. Abrams “seems to me just as excited if not more so because now there’s a history there, there’s a shorthand, and the nature of the story is different,” says Isaac, who reprises his X-wing pilot Poe Dameron in “Episode IX” as well as this fall’s animated series “Star Wars Resistance.”
Abrams will use unused footage of Fisher as General Leia Organa in the new movie, which will also continue the journey of Poe, whose path to leadership in the Resistance was a bit rocky in “Last Jedi” thanks to a few mutinous actions.
