Actress Carrie Fisher has confirmed she will reprise her role as Princess Leia for one of the new "Star Wars" films being developed by Disney. She is the first member of the original cast from the 1977 hit to confirmed to have signed on to reprise a role.
In an interview with Palm Beach Illustrated, the actress was asked if she could confirm whether she will reprise the role of Princess Leia. Fisher didn't say much, but she did say yes.
She went on to joke about what the Alderannean princess would be like now that she's older.
"She's in an intergalactic old folks' home," Fisher said. "I just think she would be just like she was before, only slower and less inclined to be up for the big battle."
Fisher also quipped about her character's signature "bagel buns" hairstyle, saying even in old age Leia still twirled her hair around her ears and put on the bikini she wore in "Return of the Jedi."
The elderly Princes Leia has "sundowners syndrome," she said. "At sundown, she thinks that she's 20-something. And she puts it on and gets institutionalized."
Rumors about the new "Star Wars" films have been swirling ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm last year for more than $4 billion and promptly announced a new trilogy of movies.
Mark Hamill is in talks to return as Luke Skywalker and Harrison Ford has expressed interest in reprising his role as Han Solo, Rolling Stone reported. Ewan McGregor, who played the jedi Obi-Ean Kenobi in Episodes I-III has said he'd be willing to make a spin-off based on the Obi-Wan character.
"They're talking to us. George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested," Mark Hamill said last week, according to the Daily Mail. "He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out."
The news is good for Fisher, who recently suffered a spot of bad press after a video of her pacing around on stage during a performance on a cruise ship singing snippets of songs and stopping mid-show to clean the mess her dog made on stage.
She was hospitalized last month for treatment of bipolar disorder.
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