[SPOILER] Leia's dialogue...

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When this sort of thing happens and a movie has to use existing footage or make some up for a character whose actor died before or during filming was completed, then it can be quite difficult to give their final performance some dignity and not come off as ham-fisted. The whole Carrie Fisher thing reminds me of Oliver Reed, who died during the filming of Gladiator, and they had to take a couple of existing filmed scenes with him and relight them and put them in subsequent scenes. You can see where they are, but I think it worked quite well. I'm undecided on the Leia stuff here, however. I teared up at her passing and the mourning of her friends and allies. To think that Fisher has been dead and buried these last two years as of this time...!