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RUMOR Billie Lourd's Character.

Discussion in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' started by Viral Hide, Feb 3, 2015.

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Who is Billie Lourd Playing?

  1. Young Carrie Fisher

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  2. Carrie Fisher's Daughter

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  3. Small Background Character

    39 vote(s)
    45.3%
  4. Other

    11 vote(s)
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  1. Viral Hide

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    Is that new info or two irresponsible publications stating past gossip as fact? EW and Deadline aren't exactly known for their crack scoop reporting. I'm not sure Deadline has broken a single story that doesn't come directly from their casting agency sources since they ousted Nikki Finke.
     
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    It's just a rumor as the title says. Still I think it's an interesting topic we haven't discussed around here. Billie Lourd is surely very interesting. :)
     
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    Yep the likeness is there.
     
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    Oh absolutely worth discussion. I agree. You sir, are a intelligent guy with good understanding of how the business works in my estimation :). That's why I enjoy your site so much. I just wanted to point out for others in this thread who may not be aware, that what deadline says these days may not be the indisputable fact it was a few years ago. And EW is....well EW. They do puff pieces for studios and are rarely ahead of the game on their info unless it was handed to them as part of a publicity piece.

    It is all very interesting though. I personally can't stand the idea of flashbacks in SW. Holograms I can deal with. So I'm sticking with the idea that she is Leia's daughter (not Han's) from another relationship post ROTJ..
     
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    I agree, I'm betting she plays only a minor part of TFA. Unless they flip it on us...but I'm pretty sure the main cast is solid. I base that belief on absolutely nothing. lol.
     
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    Please no flashbacks. Have Lourd play a new character.
     
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    While flashbacks don't make any sense for the PT and the OT, they do for the ST. After all, 30 years have passed that we don't know anything about.
     
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    But Billy Lourde playing Leia? They better super-impose Carrie Fisher's young face on her or do something like they did for Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy.
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    I'm thinking this is kind of like how Oscar Isaac's uncle got to be an extra in TFA but on another level. She has acting ability so maybe she has a small speaking part but I don't think they will break the unwritten SW rules with a flashback.

    Though she does have features of Carrie (obviously) I still think Daisy Ridley looks more like "the family" women

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    I could see them being sisters easily. I just really hate the idea of flashbacks unless they are hologram recordings playing.
     
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    Carrie was fishing for a role for Billie right from the start of meeting with Lucas, according to Hamill.

    http://www.aintitcool.com/node/62268

    I'd rather do without flashbacks if it were up to me. Hologram recordings are a method of relaying old exposition in the here and now.
     
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    I'm betting she plays a minor part as a daughter or some other relation to Leia, or even as some non-related character.

    I'm averse to flashbacks as much as most other people here, so I'm really hoping those two sources were just going off of gossip. If she is indeed in a flashback, I suppose I would be ok with it on the condition that it's something like a holocube or some recording and she plays the part of young Leia, and is very brief, not an over-the-top flashback.

    Fingers crossed.
     
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    Yeah, im ok with flashbacks too, but they can be done in a way that the Saga itself is maintained. Its not hard.


    I know I get myself worked up over the PT and OT being ruined because of the Prophecy, and I do it often, but I just know I need to put trust in the people that make it. If Lourd is playing a young Leia, it could be as simple as a scene where Leia is meditating and sees the past event where the Death Star plans are taken or something in a scene we never saw. Could be 10 seconds.


    Flashbacks as a “cut to” scene aren’t the best idea, imo, but they could work and im sure no one would really care as long as the overall integrity of the saga is maintained throughout the movie. Also, people complaining about rehashing ANH aren’t really grasping the idea that it could really make for a good nostalgic and exciting film. Lots of events in our real world history are rehashes anyways. I think escaping into the Star Wars universe and seeing new things mixed with old things is what they are after. You immerse yourself in that world, accept some changes, and end up realizing you saw a quality movie.
     
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    Precisely. Most of us are getting worked up over the continuing rumor of flashbacks making an appearance, yet at the same time most of us aren't considering the mechanism used to make such flashbacks. The meditation scenes could work very well for bringing up past events without really breaking much from the Star Wars feel.
     
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    Mark Hamill's daughter was also looking for a role in Episode VII.



    As we know, she was at Skellig Michael with the other Hamills during the time of the filming there.

     
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    Not sure I like the idea of Flashbacks in Star Wars.
     
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    Nineteen years past between ROTS and ANH, that's all most twenty years of things we don't really know too much about. The important things can be discussed through written dialogue between characters.
     
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    Flashbacks for the new characters I like, but those existing we already know their story, flashbacks should be used in events of their tragedy a loss of family for example turning into a revenge mission.
     
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