Carrie Fisher Wasn't Allowed To Wear This While Filming Star Wars

Princess Leia was not your average damsel in distress, even though she looked like your typical space princess when she was first introduced wearing a pristine long dress. While speaking to The Daily Beast, Carrie Fisher described the regal garment as "that damn white thing." In her book "Wishful Drinking," she revealed that director George Lucas insisted that she wear it without a supportive undergarment underneath it. "You can't wear a bra under that dress,'" she recalled him saying, per Goodreads. "So, I say, 'Okay, I'll bite. Why?' And he says, 'Because... there's no underwear in space.'"

Fisher started sharing this story during her one-woman show, and Lucas attended one of the events. He spoke to the actor backstage and attempted to explain his reasoning. While she joked that he had acted as though he had visited a galaxy far, far away and "didn't see any bras or panties or briefs anywhere," he simply theorized that a brassiere would become too constricting in space. (Apparently, no one informed Lucas that many bras are adjustable.) "But then your body expands??? But your bra doesn't — so you get strangled by your own bra," Fisher wrote. "Now I think that this would make a fantastic obit — so I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra."

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