General Leia Organa — to us, she's always royalty — is a character with many titles. Senator, diplomat, spy, hero of the Rebellion, head of the Resistance, dispenser of medals, kicker of a whole lot of ass.
But one thing she is not — absolutely, definitively, according to Lucasfilm canon — is a PhD.
The notion that Leia got a space doctorate in her teenage years steamrolled across the news this weekend, thanks to Buzzfeed noticing a tweet that noticed a thing that George Lucas said off-handedly on a DVD commentary in 2004.
As ever, context is everything: Lucas was trying to say he needed a really smart young actor to portray a really smart 19-year-old character, and was riffing on what that might mean. (Like a lot of creatives, Lucas habitually did a lot of riffing; he and his company rarely consider anything definitive until it is on the page or screen.) Read more...
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