Carrie fisher death: billie lourd 'ran out of the room' when she saw mom in star wars

The Force wasn’t always strong in Carrie Fisher’s young Padawan. When the actress, who died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack, first introduced daughter Billie Lourd to _Star Wars, _the

little girl ran out of the room faster than you can say Obi-Wan Kenobi. “My mom made me watch _Star Wars_ for the first time when I was about 7 years old,” Lourd, 24, once told PEOPLE.

“When I was younger, I hated action movies and pretty much anything loud. So when she put it on I covered my ears and ran out of the room.” At first, the sound of John Williams’ booming

score and the whizzing of lightsabers was too much for Lourd’s “little ears.” But about a year later, when “my little ears and I were a little more mature,” she asked her mom to put it on

again. “This time, I was completely enthralled and didn’t stop asking her questions the entire time,” she remembered. “For the next year or two, I made her watch it at least once a week —

and on special occasions I would make her get in a light saber fight with me. Let’s just say the more trained Jedi usually won.” Years later, Lourd got the chance to play a real _Star Wars

_character alongside her mom when she made an appearance in _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_. In the scene, Lourd’s double bun hairdo is an homage to her mom’s iconic look. While Lourd said

that seeing the film “didn’t necessarily change my life,” she did admit it had a “significant” impact on her. “When I saw the movie for the first time, I noticed my mom was not only equally

as confident and strong as the men, she was one of the most confident characters in the entire film,” she explained. “It made me realize women are just as powerful as men and that we can

truly do anything they can (if not more!).”