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The Independent UK
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Roisin O'Connor

Carrie Fisher thought Star Wars would be a ‘disaster’ and hated her hair: ‘I’m wearing two bagels over my ears’

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Carrie Fisher called up her best friend and fellow actor, Griffin Dunne, in a panic over her hair style for the 1977 sci-fi film Star Wars, he has recalled, as she fretted that the project would be a “f***ing disaster”.

Dunne recounts his friendship with the late star in his new memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir, which is out on 11 June via Penguin Press, along with other memories from a childhood surrounded by famous faces.

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