Interview: Carrie Fisher ‘Scared to Death’ Before Iconic Swing Across Scene

Via Gma.yahoo.com:

The “Star Wars” scene where Leia and Luke swing across a giant cavern to escape the Stormtroopers in the original film has become screen legend and in a never-before-heard interview, Carrie Fisher reveals what was going through her head in the moments beforehand.

“In the swing across, I had to hold a gun, which is very heavy, and that scared me. I thought I’d drop it,” she said in the clip, released today in celebration of “The Star Wars” franchise’s first-ever digital release on Friday. “George [Lucas] wanted me to say ‘for luck’ and then shoot the gun and then swing. I was scared to death. They put all those boxes down and I couldn’t see how those boxes were going to prevent me from breaking many bones. But if one fell, we both fall. I could see both [Mark Hamill] and I on insurance for the rest of our lives.”

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