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Of course, playing Ahsoka has more tangible benefits for Eckstein, too. Ahsoka’s popularity has made Eckstein a perennial fan-favorite, and gave her the sway to launch her own business, the female-focused fashion company Her Universe. Thanks to Ahsoka, Eckstein’s gotten to write books like the recent Little Golden Books publication I Am a Padawan, and meet childhood heroes like Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher.
“We got to be on a panel together at DragonCon, and it was the only time I got to meet her. Oh my gosh, that moment was everything I could have dreamed of and more,” Eckstein recalls.
The actress admits that she was initially nervous to appear on the panel, in which she shared a stage with Fisher, Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, and Temura Morrison, who played Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones. “I said, ‘Well, I have to be honest, I don’t think I should be here. You guys are in the movies, I’m just in the animated show.'”
It was Fisher who set her straight. “She looked at me and she said, ‘Don’t be silly.’ She said, ‘You are a part of our family and you absolutely belong on that stage,'” Eckstein remembers, “and then she proceeded to give me a hug and then gave me one of her famous glitter bombs. She just covered my head in glitter.”
Of all the people who have appeared in Star Wars, Eckstein says that Fisher is the one she wishes she could’ve worked with the most, although the actress’ passing in 2016 made that an impossibility. ” I can only imagine if I would have had more time with her what that would have been like,” Eckstein says, “because the time that I did have with her was so magical and she really was such a special person.”
Written by: Looper
