--- title: Carrie Fisher: Watch Deleted Scene from 'The Force Awakens' description: In the wake of Carrie Fisher's death, a deleted scene from "Stars Wars" shows no one stood a chance against General Leia Organa. canonical: https://time.com/4618848/carrie-fisher-star-wars-force-awakens/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-28T16:04:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:35.778Z og:title: Watch Carrie Fisher in a Cut Scene from 'The Force Awakens' og:description: The Galactic Senate didn’t stand a chance against General Organa og:url: https://time.com/4618848/carrie-fisher-star-wars-force-awakens/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f3f5490eff26564/6988b419524fc05533dfa98b/carrie-fisher-cut-scene.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Premiere Of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - Red Carpet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Carrie Fisher in a Cut Scene from 'The Force Awakens' twitter:description: The Galactic Senate didn’t stand a chance against General Organa twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f3f5490eff26564/6988b419524fc05533dfa98b/carrie-fisher-cut-scene.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Carrie Fisher in This Cut Scene from _The Force Awakens_ > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 28, 2016 4:04 PM UTC  Carrie Fisher attends the World Premiere of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at the Dolby, El Capitan, and TCL Theaters in Hollywood, California, on December 14, 2015. Carrie Fisher attends the World Premiere of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at the Dolby, El Capitan, and TCL Theaters in Hollywood, California, on December 14, 2015. Jesse Grant—Getty Images for Disney by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 28, 2016 4:04 PM UTC In the wake of [Carrie Fisher’s death](http://time.com/4618441/carrie-fisher-dead/?xid=homepage), the beloved actress and author who died Tuesday following a heart attack at the age of 60, [accolades and remembrances](http://time.com/4618454/carrie-fisher-dead-reactions/) have been pouring in from all corners of the Internet. One of these tributes is a newly resurfaced, 15-second scene cut from _Star Wars: The Force Awakens._ In a clip shared by [_Vulture_](http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/see-a-cut-force-awakens-scene-with-carrie-fisher.html)_,_ Fisher’s character, [General Leia Organa](http://time.com/4618460/carrie-fisher-dead-star-wars), tells a Resistance fighter to contact the Galactic Senate and demand action on the rising threat of the First Order. When the soldier boldly asks her if anyone will care, [Fisher](http://time.com/4618457/carrie-fisher-dead-hollywood/?xid=homepage) imbues her general with a feisty fieriness, saying with a sardonic smile, “Not all the senators think I’m insane. Or maybe they do. I don’t really care.” > [](https://twitter.com/danielmcfadin/status/813490774897782784) It was a brilliant call back to the way Fisher’s Princess Leia verbally rolled her eyes at Mark Hamill’s [Luke Skywalker](http://time.com/4618802/carrie-fisher-mark-hamill-tribute/) and Harrison Ford’s Han Solo after they came to [rescue her in _A New Hope_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTBAeXPd8nk), the first film in the original _Star Wars_ trilogy. It was a subtle, yet telling reminder that in Fisher’s skilled hands, a princess can grow up to be a general and a good one at that. \[H/T [Vulture](http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/see-a-cut-force-awakens-scene-with-carrie-fisher.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4618848/carrie-fisher-star-wars-force-awakens/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4618848/carrie-fisher-star-wars-force-awakens/"},"headline":"Watch Carrie Fisher in This Cut Scene from The Force Awakens","datePublished":"2016-12-28T16:04:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:35.778Z","description":"The Galactic Senate didn’t stand a chance against General Organa","url":"https://time.com/4618848/carrie-fisher-star-wars-force-awakens/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","celebrities","Star Wars","carrie fisher","The Force Awakens","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f3f5490eff26564/6988b419524fc05533dfa98b/carrie-fisher-cut-scene.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f3f5490eff26564/6988b419524fc05533dfa98b/carrie-fisher-cut-scene.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of \"Star Wars: The Force Awakens\" - Red Carpet","caption":"Premiere Of \"Star Wars: The Force Awakens\" - Red Carpet","creditText":"Jesse Grant—Getty Images for Disney","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4618848/carrie-fisher-star-wars-force-awakens/","name":"Watch Carrie Fisher in This Cut Scene from The Force Awakens"}}]}] ```