That paragraph comes from the 1997 book The Bacta War, the fourth book in the series Star Wars: X-Wing

I find it “funny” when fans of sci fi and fantasy rant about how “back in the day, authors just told stories without any woke agenda” -yada yada yada- meaning such themes weren’t discussed, but when you actually look back, sci fi and fantasy always was full of “woke” themes (mostly because that was the best (and often only) places where such things could be discussed and explored).

Idk, just wanted to share this and thought it might be interesting to someone here.

  • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I remembered myself hearing about some interview where she said something similar. Went looking for it and found a Vanity Fair interview from 2006 where she says:

    I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George. I took too many drugs to remember.

    When asked about how she got cast in Star Wars back in the day. So not enough to say she got directly extorted sex for the role, or just happened to be sleeping around and whoever she slept with went “Damn, she’d be great in this movie.”