Star Wars’ Carrie Fisher Gives Her Take On Han Solo And Princess Leia’s Split

While fans were largely overjoyed by the return of Star Wars movies with Star Wars: The Force Awakens (and the movie has the box office numbers to prove it), but one moment that broke many hearts was learning that Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa’s love wasn’t everlasting. Sometime between the events of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the two split up and began living separate lives.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens and its relevant tie-in materials revealed that this fissure between Han and Leia occurred when their son, Ben Solo, turned to the Dark Side of the Force and became Kylo Ren, master of the Knights of Ren and apprentice to Supreme Leader Snoke of the First Order. Leia threw herself into her role as a leader and general of the Resistance, and Han went back to his life as a smuggler.

At least that’s the official story. Carrie Fisher, the actress who plays Leia, has a different take on why Han and Leia’s marriage decayed, and it’s somehow at the same time both more colorful and more mundane than the official explanation.

“He smuggled way too much,” Fisher said during a panel at the Saskatoon Comic & Entertainment Expo. “And girls, I know you don’t want your husband smuggling, do you? [And] hanging out with the hairy guy too often. I think there are a lot of problems with that. He wouldn’t take me on that hyperspace thing enough… [that’s a] euphemism.”

Fisher offers a take on Han and Leia’s failed relationship that’s both funny and kind of fascinating. In a universe of Jedi and Sith and near-constant war for control of the galaxy, in which the heroes ultimately always win, it’s gripping to imagine that the challenges Han and Leia couldn’t work through are some of the same run-of-the-mill challenges that crop up in almost all marriages, revealing that if there’s one thing extraordinary people are ill-equipped to deal with it is the ordinary.

Fisher will return as General Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII, opening in theaters Dec. 15, 2017.

The Star Wars universe will return to theaters for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, opening Dec. 16, 2016.

[H/T] Collider