If you’ve already seen “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” you may be surprised how the filmmakers managed to use deleted scenes from “The Force Awakens” of Carrie Fisher’s performance in order to tell the rest of Leia’s story. What you still didn’t see is that there’s even more footage of Fisher on set that didn’t make it into the “Star Wars” finale.
“Skywalker” screenwriter Chris Terrio told TheWrap that the very first thing he and director J.J. Abrams did upon writing this film was to determine how to complete Leia’s story without the aid of Fisher, who died in December 2016.