This Star Wars Day – May the Fourth be with you – we're revisiting a funny and frank BBC archive interview with Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia, from a long time ago… in 1977.

Fisher spoke to the BBC three weeks before Star Wars’ UK cinema release, describing the film as “the most expensive lowbudget film ever made".

She discusses the qualities that made both the role of Princess Leia and the script appealing to her, some of the extraordinary techniques employed by the special effects department, and filming the rope swing scene with Mark Hamill.

This clip is from Nationwide, originally broadcast 6 December, 1977.

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