Carrie Fisher: Star Wars Studio Sent Personal Trainer To Check My Weight
Actor and novelist reveals good-natured combat against studio-ordered weight loss in new documentary about relationship with mom Debbie Reynolds
Carrie Fisher has uncovered how the makers of Star Wars: The Force Awakens sent a personal trainer to her home to weigh her, remove unhealthy food from her cupboards and persuade her to exercise.
Fisher was at the Cannes film festival this weekend for Saturdays screening of the HBO documentary Bright Lights, about her relationship with her mom, the 84 -year-old Hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds.
The film, directed by The Cove producer Fisher Stevens and Alexis Bloom, shows the 59 -year-old actor being persuaded to perform lunges and use a cross trainer.
While working out on a treadmill, the actor wonders if she will be retrospectively thinned down by Star Wars manufacturers if her character Leia Organa should die and return as a Force ghost. She asks: My topic is, if you die when youre fat, are you a fat ghost, or do they go back to a more flattering period?
At one point in the film, the fitness professional empties Fisher kitchen of unhealthy food and beverages. But Fisher reportedly opposed back against the fitness regime, buying cans of cola and refusing to do lunges.
Bright Sun features footage of Fisher when she was a little girl, as well as archive material highlighting her mothers years of Hollywood fame. The actor and comic previously riffed on the relationship for her 1987 semi-autobiographical fiction Postcards from the Edge, which was later accommodated by the author for the acclaimed 1990 film starring Meryl Streep, who received an Oscar-nomination for the role.
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Carrie Fisher: Star Wars Studio Sent Personal Trainer To Check My Weight
Carrie Fisher: Star Wars Studio Sent Personal Trainer To Check My Weight
Carrie Fisher: Star Wars Studio Sent Personal Trainer To Check My Weight
Carrie Fisher: Star Wars Studio Sent Personal Trainer To Check My Weight
Carrie Fisher: Star Wars Studio Sent Personal Trainer To Check My Weight