Adam Driver pays tribute to Star Wars co-star Carrie Fisher

Adam Driver has described Carrie Fisher's death as a “tragedy.”


The 33-year-old actor - who played Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens alongside Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia - praised the late actress and her “generous energy.”

He said: “As you can kind of tell from meeting her, she burns very bright and has such a great, very generous energy,” the Daily Mail reports.

“For that suddenly not to be on set, or we're talking about it in publicity or just in life, when you kind of see her around at a Star Wars event, or anywhere, to have... her character - not just her character in the movie, but her character missing from that very small unit - is a tragedy.”

And Adam has great memories of Carrie, revealing the last time he saw her was on set in her iconic role.

Speaking on The Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert, he added: “We finished the second one last summer. I think that was the last time I saw her, actually, on set being Princess Leia.”

Carrie passed away on December 27 after suffering a heart attack on a plane from London to Los Angeles.