There was no way.
What are you gonna do?
You cant recast that part, and youre not just going to have her disappear, Abrams said.
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He called it a near miracle that there were unused scenes of her fromThe Force Awakens.
He added, Princess Leia lives in this film in a way that is kind of mind-blowing to me.
I wasnt surprised because I remember we were doing that, we worked a lot, Isaac said.
[Fisher] and I worked together so much.
We would talk about the scenes, and we got very tight during the shooting of that.
Theres a lot of minutes of footage.
I dont mean just outtakes, Todd Fisher toldGood Morning Americaback in December.
This is unused, new content that could be woven into the storyline.
Thats whats going to give everybody such a great kick.
Its going to look like it was meant to be.
Like it was shot yesterday.
Fisher often called herself the custodian of Leia.
