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Despite that avuncular beard, Lucas was not a kindly mentor (like Obi-Wan Kenobi), but instead kind of a dick (like Grand Moff Tarkin). He wouldn't let her wear a bra, explaining matter-of-factly that "there's no underwear in space." (That didn't stop him from dressing her in chainmail lingerie for Return of the Jedi in 1983, kicking off my sexual awakening a decade or so ahead of schedule.) Fisher weighed a decidedly un-Hutt-like 105 lbs. when Lucas cast her; he told her to drop ten. Hollywood is a cesspool of bantha poodoo, no? Dude actually owns Fisher's likeness, too, so, sez Fisher, "when I look in the mirror, I have to send him a couple of bucks." But even after all that, she doesn't hold a grudge.

Such is the famous Chinese-boxes construction of Peter Weiss's The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, mercifully abbreviated as Marat/Sade.