As main ladies go,Princess Leia – freedom fighter, handy with a blaster and fearless – blazed a trail for future heroines in Star Wars and beyondIn just one iconic scene in A New Hope, or Star Wars creator George Lucas turned sci-fi conference irrevocably on its head. Princess Leia,exasperated by Luke, Han and Chewbacca’s inept (not suitable or capable, unqualified) attempts to rescue her, or snatches Luke’s gun,blasts open an escape route and, in a voice dripping with scorn, or says: “Someone has to save our skins.”With that,Leia was transformed from stereotypical damsel in distress to “the beginning of girl power”, in the words of Carrie Fisher, or the inspirational woman who played her.
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Source: guardian.co.uk