What happened to her voice?
She sounds completely different in her final films than she did early on.
shareAge. And she lived a pretty hard life.
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Happened to my grandma. She had a nice sweet voice and then one day, it was crazy deep. Just happens to some people when they get older.
shareWhat's strange is that Carrie had a strong, authoritative sounding voice during her youth. For some reason, I'm actually shocked to learn that she was only 21 when the first Star Wars film came out because she did give off the inclination that she was more mature than her actual age. In the later Star Wars films (the sequel trilogy), Carrie did sound a lot more haggard and raspy.
shareYears of smoking cigarettes... and probably every illegal thing you could smoke back in the 80's and 90's... She partied too hard and it took a toll.
shareIt sounded a lot to me like a mix of cigarette smoking and having dentures.
shareI have seen (and heard) her in two star wars celebrations, I would say that she smoked a lot.
shareShe clearly didn't take C3PO's advice to not smoke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELPlgKB9n8E
Could be smoking, but my mom smoked a couple of packs a day for over half a century, and her voice never changed.
shareOr maybe it did and you didn't notice because the change was gradual??
shareI wonder if Carrie had COPD? I don't know for sure if COPD can directly result in a patient's voice drastically changing, but I thought about this after hearing that Matthew Perry was coping with it at the time of his death.
shareShe always had a comparatively deep voice, and IMHO that was one of the things that made her work as Princess Leia. Even though she was very young and very tiny when they made the OT, her voice was mature and authoritative rather than girlish, and you totally bought her as the person who was giving the fighter pilots their orders, even though they were all much older than her, and two feet taller.
And the human voice naturally deepens with age, and it deepens a hell of a lot more if you smoke cigs or worse. Actors used to deliberately take up smoking to deepen their voices, now they just take up smoking to keep their weight down.
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