Forever in her heart.
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Lourd also shared aspecial musical tributeto her mother last December, on the second anniversary of Fisher’s death.
“This is the piano her father gave her and this was one of her favorite songs. And as the song says, we must ‘keep on moving,” she added, noting “I’ve found that what keeps me moving is doing things that make me happy, working hard on the things that I’m passionate about and surrounding myself with people I love and making them smile.”
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Lourd, who had a small part inStar Wars: The Force Awakens,will appear inStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which will featurefootage of the mother-daughter pair.
Director J.J. Abrams revealed the news toVanity Fairin May, sharing that he used old footage of Fisher for the upcoming Episode IX, and had cut Lourd out of those scenes with her late mother thinking it would be too painful for the young actress to see.
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Instead, Lourd asked him to keep their scenes intact.
“There are moments where they’re talking; there are moments where they’re touching,” Abrams said. “There are moments in this movie where Carrie is there, and I really do feel there is an element of the uncanny, spiritual, you know, classic Carrie, that it would have happened this way, because somehow it worked.”
source: people.com
