However, Carrie is quoted in an interview in Rolling Stone about the "flaws" of the character—or more specifically, the flaws in the creators' portrayal of feminine strength.
“The only way they knew to make the character
strong was to make her angry,” she said in an interview with Rolling Stone
shortly before Return of the Jedi premiered in 1983. “In Return of the Jedi,
she gets to be more feminine, more supportive, more affectionate. But let’s not
forget that these movies are basically boys’ fantasies. So the other way they
made her more female in this one was to have her take off her clothes.”
"By playing Leia the way she did and by speaking
openly about the troubled trope," the article explained, "Fisher upended notions of what a princess
could or should be. Studios began to figure out that there could be other types
of female protagonists....
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