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Han and Leia say cheerio in 'The Empire Strikes Back' (Lucasfilm)

Every serious Star Wars fan knows the story: When Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) finally professes her love for Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in The Empire Strikes Back, his scripted reply was "I love you lot, too." Instead, Harrison Ford says, "I know." Information technology's a beautiful moment, oft cited equally one of the best histrion-improvised lines in movie history. Merely is the legend true? On the 35th ceremony of The Empire Strikes Back, allow'due south accept a look at how Han and Leia's memorable exchange came to be.

The conversation in the film takes place just before Han Solo is frozen alive in carbonite by Darth Vader. Non knowing if he'll survive, he kisses Leia, just to be torn away from her by Stormtroopers. She blurts out "I love you," and as he descends into chamber, Han replies, "I know." It'southward the last line he speaks in the flick.

In the scene from the shooting script, reprinted in J.Due west. Rinzler's The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back , the moment does read differently. Later on Han kisses Leia, she says, "I beloved you. I couldn't tell you earlier, but it'south truthful." But he doesn't say, "I love you" — his line is "Just remember that, 'cause I'll be back."

On the day he shot the carbonite scene in June 1979, director Irvin Kershner was actively making changes to screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan's script. Amazingly, in that location'due south a consummate record of when and how these changes occurred, because unit publicist Alan Arnold was recording everything on sound cassette. In a conversation between Ford and Kershner transcribed in Rinzler's volume, the director and star concur that the love scene needs to be less florid.

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"I recall she ought to just say, 'I dear you,' as I'thousand passing past her," Ford suggests to Kershner. Later in the conversation, he makes the modify to his own line, saying, "If she says, 'I dearest yous,' and I say, 'I know,' it'southward beautiful and it'southward acceptable and information technology's funny."

And then it'south true that the iconic line was penned by Ford, but it wasn't improvised on the spot: Information technology was hashed out with Kershner before the shoot. Ford besides wanted to add a line of reassurance to Leia —something like "Don't worry about this" — which somewhen became his saying to Chewbacca, "You have to take intendance of her." Han Solo'southward final scripted line, "I'll be dorsum," concluded up on the cutting room floor, because Kershner wanted to arrive clear that Han Solo might not survive the carbon freeze. "You can't [reassure her] because you don't know whether this is the stop or not," the managing director said to Ford.

Ironically, that tender moment resulted in a fight between Ford and Carrie Fisher, who was bellyaching that her co-star made changes to their scene without her input. When information technology came time for Han and Leia to profess their love, the ii actors however weren't speaking. "Harrison is a very fine thespian. I regarded that scene as entirely his, which is why I gave him so much opportunity to tell me how he thought we should treat it," Kerschner explains in Rinzler's book. "That led to a piffling tension with Carrie."

When Kershner put his first cutting of The Empire Strikes Back together, executive producer George Lucas pushed back confronting the new dialogue, fearing that the audition would laugh at Han's line. In a 2010 Vanity Fair interview, Kershner said that Lucas insisted on doing two preview screenings, one with Han Solo's scripted line (which Kershner had also shot) and another with Ford'southward version. "At the get-go preview in San Francisco, the house broke upward after Han Solo said 'I know,'" Kershner recalls. "When the film was over, people came upwardly and said that is the virtually wonderful line and it worked. So George decided not to have the second screening."

Leia and Han before in Cloud Urban center (Lucasfilm)

The line is funny, simply equally Carrie Fisher has said, that's exactly why information technology works. "When they first showed the dailies to the cast and coiffure, they used the live sound then when I say, 'I honey y'all,' I was body-miked and information technology was at the correct level," Fisher tells Rinzler. "Only when Harrison replied, information technology came out a loud echo: 'I KNOW!' Well, the bandage and coiffure laughed for about 15 minutes.… Merely information technology works considering they really can make the transition from that laugh into the fact that is something very pitiful."

Lawrence Kasdan, on the other hand, was displeased that his original Han and Leia scenes were rewritten. "I could be the only person who feels this style, but I thought their romance had a impact of falseness about it," he told Starlog Mag in 1981. "Han and Leia's scenes were among what I was proudest of in my script, but they hardly remained."

Thirty-five years after Empire was released, the "I love you/I know" scene is considered ane of the most genuine and touching moments in all of the Star Wars movies. Said Ford about the scene in a 2010 interview: "Film is a collaborative process. I'1000 happy that I was able to make a small-scale contribution."