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<\/span><\/figure>\nBoyega was with family in Nigeria when he found out about Fisher’s death, which came four days after she was taken ill on a flight from London to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
“It was a strange, strange feeling,” said the 25-year-old, currently promoting his role in race drama Detroit.<\/p>\n
“I felt like everybody in the cast and obviously around the world [and] went silent for a bit.”<\/p>\n His comments came as Fisher’s actress daughter, Billie Lourd, spoke about the last time she saw her mother.<\/p>\n “The last time I saw her in person, this episode of Scream Queens was on, and it was a big episode for me,” she told fellow actress Sarah Paulson\u00a0in Town & Country magazine.<\/p>\n “I had tons of scenes, and I was so hard on myself about it – I hated how I looked, hated my performance. I was really frustrated.<\/p>\n “She told me, ‘Come over right now. I want to watch this with you.’ And she made me sit down and watch it, and she forced me to see the good parts.<\/p>\n “She was incredible like that. But she was really hard on me, saying, ‘Shut up, you’re great in this. Have faith in yourself. Be more confident.”‘<\/p>\n Lourd lost her grandmother Debbie Reynolds the day after her mother’s death and admitted she had always “lived in their shadows”.<\/p>\n “I love being my mother’s daughter, and it’s something I always will be, but now I get to be just Billie,” she added.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the Star Wars universe, it has been revealed that the next film in the series – Star Wars: Episode IX – is to be rewritten by British writer Jack Thorne.<\/p>\n According to The Hollywood Reporter, the writer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is working on the ninth instalment, to be directed by Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, director Ron Howard has told the same publication the Han Solo stand-alone film is “coming along great”.<\/p>\n “It’s a fantastic script, a great cast and I am having a fantastic creative experience with it,” he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n Howard\u00a0took over the film\u00a0from Christopher Miller and Phil Lord after they left the project, citing “creative differences” with producers.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carrie Fisher is given an “amazing” send-off in her final Star Wars film, according to co-star John Boyega. The London-born actor said he shares “many scenes” with the late actress in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and that the sci-fi franchise “keeps her alive”. Fisher, who played the part of Princess – later General – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Carrie](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/12FF8\/production\/_97161877_carriebillie_reuters.jpg\")
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