George Lucas Reveals The Reason Princess Leia Went Braless In Star Wars

By Henry Hards
| Published 1 hour ago

Sure, she wore the gold bikini, but apparently that was as close as Carrie Fisher got to wearing a bra in Star Wars. Blastr spoke to Carrie Fisher back in 2010, while she was in the midst of putting on a one-woman show where she tells weird stories. During their conversation, Fisher revealed the state of her underwear during the shooting of Star Wars.

The way Fisher told it, George Lucas wouldn’t let her wear a bra during shooting. Why? Believe it or not, he actually had a completely nerdy, scientific reason for it. Here’s how Fisher says Lucas explained it:

“He explained that in space you get weightless, and so your flesh expands. What? But your bra doesn’t, so you get strangled by your bra. That’s why I couldn’t wear a bra in the first Star Wars. George actually came backstage when I did the show in San Francisco and told me that.”

I’m pretty sure this was just an excuse for Lucas’s creepiness and that NASA’s female astronauts wear undergarments. Also, Star Wars has always totally ignored the weightless aspect of space, hand-waving it away with infinite artificial gravity.

Sorry, George. We’re not buying it.