Robert Crane caught up with the diminutive daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher at her home in Laurel Canyon. He reports, "Carrie Fisher lives in a log cabin. Really. The only tip-off to her wealth is a Mercedes 450 SL parked in the driveway. Carrie talks fast and loud and doesn't forget the audience for a moment. She takes charge, like Princess Leia, but is much more attractive in person without that costume and the doughnuts on the side of her head.

Q 1

PLAYBOY: Are you afraid of being known for the rest of your life as Princess Leia and not as Carrie Fisher?

Carrie Fisher: I'm resigned to the fact that I will be, in a very pleasant way. I thought I was going to end up as Tammy. So you can imagine it's some kind of relief. It's OK that I'm this gun-toting girl in the sky. I'm not afraid of that.

Q 2

PLAYBOY: What do you want Princess Leia to do that she can't do?

Carrie Fisher: A hundred things. I asked George Lucas nicely if she could have a drinking problem or take soma or anything, because she's had a rough couple of films: She's been tortured by Darth Vader; she had a space boyfriend and he was frozen; she's been wounded; a planet was blown up with her parents on it--the whole shot. I thought she would have some kind of problem after that. I wanted another girl up in space with me, shopping, talking about guys--"The space suit really doesn't do him justice; he's really cute underneath all that plastic." Also, I have a costume I want to use that I think even PLAYBOY would be proud of. Anyway, I don't take drugs or drink in space. Nobody does that.

Q 3

PLAYBOY: If it were up to you, what would happen to Princess Leia?

Carrie Fisher: She'd get blown up. In midsentence: "And another thing; this aircraft is not----" Boom! She just gets a little testy. She's had two films to work it out and she hasn't done it. They blow people up well in these films.

Q 4

PLAYBOY: Who is the lucky man who introduces you to full princesshood and under what circumstances?

Carrie Fisher: First of all, one has to assume that Han Solo's kiss is the first space kiss that Princess Leia has encountered. She's just a soldier and she never goes below barracks. I thought maybe he'd be a robot. We'd cut to a fireplace and the embers would go down, and we'd cut back and I'd look exactly like Princess Di. But I guess it doesn't happen like that in space.

Q 5

PLAYBOY: Can you foresee having a relationship with Vader?

Carrie Fisher: Yeah, but not of the kind that you're suggesting. He's not a real nice guy. Not your standard relationship. There are other styles of relationships that I don't like to imagine. He's just tortured me and everything. The guy's not attractive. He has funny hair. He's not black. He may be neuter. A lot of this is open to people's interpretations. Maybe he's gay. Vader is gay and he's embarrassed about some tattoos he had put on his face. He got drunk one night. No, he has some kind of problem with facial hair. What can I tell you? You'll find it out in the third film. You had a glimpse of him in The Empire Strikes Back. He looked like some vegetable gone bad.