--- title: Adam Driver Remembers Carrie Fisher on The Late Show VIDEO description: After working with Carrie Fisher on two Star Wars films, Adam Driver had some kinds words to say about his late co-star. canonical: https://time.com/4625762/adam-driver-remembers-carrie-fisher/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-06T16:17:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:57.762Z og:title: Adam Driver Remembers the Last Time He Saw Carrie Fisher og:description: "She burns very bright" og:url: https://time.com/4625762/adam-driver-remembers-carrie-fisher/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Adam Driver Remembers the Last Time He Saw Carrie Fisher twitter:description: "She burns very bright" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Adam Driver Remember the Last Time He Saw Carrie Fisher  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 6, 2017 4:17 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 6, 2017 4:17 PM UTC After working with [Carrie Fisher](http://time.com/4625374/debbie-reynolds-carrie-fisher-memorial/) on two [_Star Wars_](http://time.com/4112165/every-star-wars-death/)films — _The Force Awakens_ and the upcoming _Episode VIII_ — [Adam Driver](http://time.com/4623757/adam-driver-kylo-ren-star-wars-episode-viii/) had some kinds words to say about his late co-star. During a Thursday appearance on _The Late Show_, the Kylo Renactor spoke about what Fisher meant to the galaxy far, far away family. “As you can kind of tell from meeting her, she burns very bright and has such a great, very generous energy,” he told Stephen Colbert. “For that suddenly not to be on-set…or just in life when you see her around at a _Star Wars_ event or anywhere. To have her character – not just her character in the movie \[but who she is as a person\] – missing from that very small unit is a tragedy.” Driver also recalled the last time he saw Fisher before she passed in December — while putting the finishing touches on _Episode VIII_. “Last summer — I think that was the last time I saw her actually was on set being Princess Leia.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4625762/adam-driver-remembers-carrie-fisher/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4625762/adam-driver-remembers-carrie-fisher/"},"headline":"Watch Adam Driver Remember the Last Time He Saw Carrie Fisher","datePublished":"2017-01-06T16:17:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:57.762Z","description":"\"She burns very bright\"","url":"https://time.com/4625762/adam-driver-remembers-carrie-fisher/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Star Wars topic","stephen colbert","adam driver","TV","the late show","carrie fisher","the late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4625762/adam-driver-remembers-carrie-fisher/","name":"Watch Adam Driver Remember the Last Time He Saw Carrie Fisher"}}]}] ```