16. You’re my only hope!
We bet you missed this! Princess Leia and Obi-Wan Kenobi actually never meet in the film, even though that’s the whole goal at the beginning! In fact, the closest they ever get is when she sees him off in the distance during his famous lightsaber duel with Darth Vader.
17. Ready, aim, fire!
Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia, wasn’t comfortable shooting (or even handling) guns prior to filming Star Wars. To help her prepare, she was given shooting lessons from the same person who taught Robert De Niro to fire a gun for the film Taxi Driver!
18. Talk about a rewrite!
George Lucas shared that originally in early drafts that Luke was a girl, Han Solo wasn’t a human, the Wookie race were called Jawas and our two famous droids were called A-2 and C-3. Now, that there is a different film, Clark!
