Carrie Fisher died in December 2017.
But director JJ Abrams is bringing her back to the Star Wars franchise with December's The Rise Of Skywalker, thanks to old footage he had from The Force Awakens.
And in the new issue of Vanity Fair, the helmer said the special effects are so incredible that Carrie's Leia Organa will be able to touch and interact with a character played by her daughter Billie Lourd.
Back together: Carrie Fisher, right, will interact with her daughter Billie Lourd, left, in the next Star Wars movie, The Rise Of Skywalker, due out in December, JJ Abrams told Vanity Fair. Seen in The Force Awakens
They are both back: The beauty seen here in 2015 in Hollywood with Billie
Billie plays Resistance officer named Lieutenant Connix; She was seen in both Force Awakens and Last Jedi.
Billie plays Resistance officer named Lieutenant Connix
'There are moments where they're talking; there are moments where they're touching,' Abrams said.
'There are moments in this movie where Carrie is there, and I really do feel there is an element of the uncanny, spiritual, you know, classic Carrie, that it would have happened this way, because somehow it worked.
'And I never thought it would.'
He also explained how he figured out a way to include the Fisher.
'It's hard to even talk about it without sounding like I'm being some kind of cosmic spiritual goofball,' Abrams said.
'But it felt like we suddenly had found the impossible answer to the impossible question.'
Here it is: In the Rise Of Skywalker trailer, Rey is seen hugging Leia. Old footage was carefully used with tweaked lighting
The way she was: Fisher is seen in 2015's Force Awakens with Harrison Ford
He started to write scenes around the old footage, fitting Leia's dialogue into new contexts, VF stated.
And the lighting was tweaked just so to make the footage look right.
'It was a bizarre kind of left side/right side of the brain sort of Venn diagram thing, of figuring out how to create the puzzle based on the pieces we had.'
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Lonely boy: Adam Driver, who plays Kylo Ren, talked being abandoned by Han Solo. 'How do you form friendships out of that?' Driver asked. 'How do you understand the weight of that? And if there's no one around you guiding you, or articulating things the right way … it can easily go awry'
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Abrams also touched on how daunting it was to bring the Skywalker story to a close after so much time.
'That's the challenge of this movie,' Abrams says. 'It wasn't just to make one film that as a stand-alone experience would be thrilling, and scary, and emotional, and funny, but one that if you were to watch all nine of the films, you'd feel like, Well, of course— that!'
And there is so much baggage.
'This trilogy is about this young generation, this new generation, having to deal with all the debt that has come before,' he added.
'And it’s the sins of the father, and it’s the wisdom and the accomplishments of those who did great things, but it’s also those who committed atrocities, and the idea that this group is up against this unspeakable evil and are they prepared? Are they ready?
'What have they learned from before? It’s less about grandeur. It’s less about restoring an old age. It’s more about preserving a sense of freedom and not being one of the oppressed.
'The idea of the movie is kind of how I felt going into the movie as a filmmaker which is to say that I’ve inherited all this stuff, great stuff, and good wisdom, and the good and the bad, and it’s all coming to this end, and the question is, do we have what it takes to succeed?'
A new behind-the-scenes look: This image taken on set shows Chewbacca, Rey and C-3PO
He also talked about the look of his films and what inspired him. Abrams wanted more of the feel of the first three Star Wars films: New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi.
'Famously, the prequels were mostly greenscreen environments,' Abrams says. 'And that was George himself doing that, and it ended up looking exactly how he wanted it to look—and I always preferred the look of the original movies, because I just remember when you're in the snow on Hoth, when you're in the desert on Tatooine, and when you're in the forests of Endor—it's amazing. If you put a vaporator here, there, all of a sudden almost any natural location suddenly becomes a location.'
The VF writer also was allowed to talk to some of the cast members.
Ridley, who plays Rey, had the most to say.
And she turned her attention to how Rey felt about Kylo.
'I think there's a part of Rey that's like, dude, you f**king had it all, you had it all,' Ridley says. 'That was always a big question during filming: you had it all and you let it go.'
Kylo is the son of Han Solo and Princess Leia, but he ended up going to the dark side and worshiping Darth Vader, his late grandfather.
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