Irish screenwriter and actress, Sharon Horgan, has penned an emotional yet appropriate tribute to Carrie Fisher who died last week.
The Star Wars actress played her last role in Horgan’s TV series, Catastrophe and they met for dinner just before she headed back to L.A.
Writing in the Guardian, Sharon said she would keep her tribute “saccharine-free” as Carrie was “allergic to bullshit”.
In the moving piece, she describes a typical evening with the actress.
“She was no ordinary celebrity. She was, she said, Mickey Mouse. Everybody owned a piece, or felt they had the right to a piece. But the beautiful truth about Carrie is that she was genuine. She knew her talents, she knew her cultural importance, but she was humble, too. She didn’t have to feign her modesty. Her modesty and insecurity were part of her makeup. She was so real that it was almost dangerous.”
But, she explained that Carrie was seen as a pioneer for many:
My God, girls, we owe her a lot. Not many women of her generation called out the double standards of the film industry the way she did. And how it treats women of a certain age. She knew that a man in her position wouldn’t have got the flak that she got. And he didn’t. She knew that she had to keep mouthing off about it. And she did it with great wit. But it hurt her.
Sharon Horgan says she wants to remember everything about her in an unfiltered way and to celebrate everything that made her the legendary Carrie Fisher:
“Carrie Fisher isn’t around any more. And that’s just horrible. As my dad said: shit happens, but some shit is worse than others. And I want everyone to remember her and all the great things she was. A wonderful writer, a fine actress, a great mother, a caring daughter, a loyal friend, a wit, a prolific present-giver, a lunatic, a legend.”
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