The punk rock group Blink 182 wrote a song called "A New Hope" in which Fisher's character "Princess Leia" is the lead singer's dream girl.
When asked what her favorite moment from the Star Wars trilogy are, she replied that her favorite moments were the arguing scenes between her and Harrison Ford.
Stood on a box for many of her scenes with Harrison Ford in the Star Wars trilogy, owing to the fact that she was roughly a foot shorter than him and didn't fit into the frame.
She allegedly disliked the "bagel bun" hair style she wore in the original Star Wars (1977), but she didn't say anything about it because she was afraid that director George Lucas would get angry and fire her.
Carrie struggled to do scenes with Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin) in Star Wars because Cushing had been allowed by Lucas to wear slippers instead of boots.
Get the Red Out – Vader’s first encounter with Leia in the novelization describes the "red eyes" glaring behind the Dark Lord’s mask.
Needling Questions – Why did the interrogation droid in Leia’s cell carry a giant syringe? According to Expanded Universe lore, the hypodermic carried a truth serum named Bavo-6.
