Billie Lourd Was a Stand-In For Her Mom Carrie Fisher in ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’

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We’re never going to stop missing Carrie Fisher.

It’s recently been discovered that director J.J. Abrams made an awesome choice when choosing someone to step into the large shoes left by Carrie, who died in 2016.

The director had asked the late actress’s daughter Billie Lourd to shoot a scene as Princess Leia in a scene featured in The Rise of the Skywalker.

The scene was a flashback to a young Leia training with her brother Luke, which couldn’t be shot with remaining footage, like the rest of Carrie’s scenes had.

“Billie was playing her mother,” Visual Effects Supervisor Patrick Tubach revealed to Yahoo!. “It was a poignant thing, and something that nobody took lightly — that she was willing to stand in for her mom.”

Other footage of Carrie from an earlier Star Wars movie was used to digitally replace Billie’s face.

“It was an emotional thing for everybody to see her in that position,” Patrick continued. “It felt great for us, too. If you’re going to have someone play [Fisher’s] part, it’s great that it’s [Billie] because there are a lot of similarities between them that we were able to draw from. The real challenge was just making the Leia footage we had to work with fit in that scene.”

How wonderful is this? Carrie wouldn’t have wanted it any other way!