It’s not the ones you get that haunt you. It’s the ones you missed. Jodie Foster says she almost played Princess Leia in Star Wars, but had a scheduling conflict.
Foster recalled her Star Wars moment on Wednesday’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “I had a conflict, I was doing a Disney movie and I just didn’t want to pull out of the Disney movie because I was already under contract.
So I didn’t do it,” Foster said. That decision resulted in the forgettable 1977 film Candleshoe, with Foster as Casey Brown, an orphan who is recruited to find a long-lost treasure hidden in a stately home in England.
Foster mentioned that Leia’s iconic hairstyle might have been different had she taken the role. “And they did an amazing job.
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