The 61-year-old was initially solid as Princess Leia.

Whereas showing on Graham Norton in London, the 61-year-old actress revealed that she was solid within the authentic Star Wars movies as the enduring character. Her reasoning for declining the function was that she was already locked right into a Disney movie.

The late Carrie Fisher, in fact, went on to play the function and have become synonymous with the character. Fisher not solely starred within the authentic Star Wars trilogy however reprised her function in The Drive Awakens and subsequent Star Wars movies earlier than her demise in 2016, along with her ultimate scenes airing posthumously in The Final Jedi in 2017 and The Rise Of Skywalker in 2019.

This isn’t the primary time Foster has revealed the unique casting. Whereas on The Tonight Present  in January she advised Jimmy Fallon, “They had been going for a youthful Princess Leia however I had a battle,” she stated. “I used to be doing a Disney film and I simply didn’t wish to pull out of the Disney film as a result of I used to be already beneath contract so I did not do it.”

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Foster was one in every of many huge names on Norton’s sofa this week together with; Olivia Colman, Lorraine Kelly, Wanda Sykes, Austin Butler, Josh Brolin, Calvin Harris and Rag ‘n’ Bone Man.

Foster is making the media rounds within the lead as much as The Academy Awards the place she is nominated for Finest Supporting Actress for Nyad. That is her fifth Oscar nomination and it’s her first in 29 years. Her final nod was for Nell in 1995.

She stars alongside Annette Bening who additionally bought her fifth Oscar nomination for the based-on-a-true-story swimming drama from Netflix.

Foster’s episode of Graham Norton airs tonight at 10:40pm.