Mark Hamill pens tribute to Carrie Fisher: 'I loved her and loved making her laugh'

'We ran the gamut over the years, where we were in love with each other, where we hated each other’s guts'

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140 characters is nowhere near enough to sum up the spirit of Carrie Fisher, so Mark Hamill has followed up his tweet by writing just shy of a thousand about her in a guest column tribute for The Hollywood Reporter.

Fisher’s Star Wars co-star discusses how he first met her over dinner ahead of their first shoot, how she would “suck you into her world” and “make you feel like you were the most important thing in her life”.

He also acknowledged that their relationship was sometimes turbulent.

“The lengths I would go to hear her laugh — there were no limits,” Hamill writes. “I loved her and loved making her laugh.

“She would do these crazy things and make me do these crazy things, but I really don’t think they were crazy after all. In a way, it was a defense mechanism for her. She was so off the wall, she could use it as protection. Part of what was so poignant about her was that she was vulnerable, that there was this glimmer of a little girl that was so appealing and it roused the protective nature in my personality.

“I’m grateful that we stayed friends and got to have this second act with the new movies. I think it was reassuring to her that I was there, the same person, that she could trust me, as critical as we could sometimes be with each other. We ran the gamut over the years, where we were in love with each other, where we hated each other’s guts. “I’m not speaking to you, you’re such a judgmental, royal brat!” We went through it all. It’s like we were a family.”

Hamill and Fisher will appear together in the upcoming Star Wars 8, which wrapped filming prior to Fisher’s death. It is still unclear how her character of General Leia will figure in Star Wars 9, if at all.

Read Hamill’s tribute in full here.