Carrie Fisher Gets Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame On May The 4th

“Star Wars” Day got a little extra shine on Thursday.

The late Carrie Fisher, who’s widely known for her role as Princess Leia in George Lucas’ beloved franchise, received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 4 — which has long been considered the unofficial holiday for all things“Star Wars.” (May the 4th is a play on the line “May the force be with you.”)

Seven years after her 2016 death at age 60, her co-star Mark Hamill and her daughter Billie Lourd remembered Fisher by honoring her with touching speeches at the ceremony.

Hamill remembered his first impression of Fisher.

“I remember thinking, ‘She’s 19 years old, she’s barely out of high school.’ I was a worldly 24 ― and every expectation I had was just obliterated,” he recalled. “She was so charming, so funny, so adorable, so wise beyond her years. I just couldn’t believe it.”

“And brutally frank!,” he added to laughs from the crowd. “She started telling me stories — intimate stories — about her family that I was thinking, ‘Should I be hearing this?’ I mean, these were things that I would probably not tell friends unless I knew them for years. But that was Carrie. She also had a wisdom that seemed to be far beyond what a 19-year-old should be expected to have.”

He also admitted that he struggled to find the right words to do Fisher justice in his speech, so he went back to a Facebook post he shared shortly after her death and then read it aloud.

“Carrie was one-of-a-kind who belonged to us all — whether she liked it or not. She was OUR Princess, damn it, & the actress who played her blurred into one gorgeous, fiercely independent & ferociously funny, take-charge woman who took our collective breath away.”

He concluded his speech by acknowledging that it’s sad that Fisher couldn’t have been there for the ceremony, “but she wouldn’t want us to be sad. She’d want us to have fun. She’d want us to laugh.”

Lourd spoke a few moments later, admitting that when she was young she didn’t quite get all the hype around “Star Wars” and her mother.

“Like most kids, I grew up thinking my mom was a little bit — OK, a lot — embarrassing,” Lourd began. “She tried to alter my opinion by showing me this ‘cool movie’ she was in,…