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Jodie Foster reveals she turned down iconic role of Princess Leia in Star Wars at age 14 and jokes: 'I might have had different hair'


George Lucas considered hundreds of famous actresses for the part of the secret Rebel Alliance leader, but wound up casting 19-year-old Carrie Fisher on the condition she shed 10 pounds

Foster executive produced and stars as gruff police chief Liz Danvers in the $60M-budget fourth season of Nic Pizzolatto's award-winning anthology series True Detective: Night Country, which airs Sundays on Max Jodie executive produced and stars as gruff police chief Liz Danvers in the $60M-budget fourth season of Nic Pizzolatto's award-winning anthology series True Detective: Night Country, which airs Sundays on Max. The mystical mystery about the disappearance of eight male scientists from a climate change research station is set in fictional Alaskan town of Ennis, but it was filmed in Iceland where the cast and crew braved temperatures as low as −9F degrees.

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