Carrie Fisher And there was an unusual and deep friendship between actor and director Griffin Dunne.
The pair were at one time roommates in New York City, as Dunn was a working actress and Fisher was about to land her breakout role in “Star Wars.”
In his new memoir, “The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir,” available Tuesday, Dunne details their friendship, including his claim that his wife lost her virginity to him while dating another man.
In an excerpt published in “The Sunday Times,” Dunn wrote, “First of all, let me get straight to the point and say that Carrie was never going to be my girlfriend. She knew long before I did that having a lover would only hurt our chances. Carrie was a virgin when we met, and she lived for every horrific detail of my sexual encounters: from my first kiss to the post-coital anxieties I shared with no one else. Her curiosity was so forensic that I felt like I was conducting an autopsy on a corpse.”
The late Carrie Fisher’s friend Griffin Dunne claims in his new memoir that Carrie Fisher lost her virginity to him, although they were just friends and no romantic relationship developed between them. (Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
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She further revealed that she had a boyfriend at the time who was asking her what the best way was to win her over.
“Of all her confused lovers, Donald was the one I liked the most, and I was excited for him. I was not prepared to reveal to myself that, shortly after their courtship, Carrie had decided to lose her virginity to me. Strange as it may sound, there was a certain logic behind Carrie’s approach. For years I had been instructing her in the nuances of every imaginable sexual act, like an ordnance operator telling a housewife how to disarm a bomb. Yes, it can be creepy, but not if you know what you’re doing,” Dunn wrote.
He went into detail about their friendship, including a prank war that continued until one day things changed and they kissed.
“Everything made sense at that moment, and we both understood that whatever we were doing under the covers wouldn’t make the slightest difference to our friendship,” the “After Hours” star wrote.
Dunn said they had a sexual relationship while Fisher was dating another man, and that she lost her virginity to him, but they both “understood that whatever we were doing wouldn’t affect our friendship one bit.” (Getty Images)
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They met at her mom’s house, before becoming roommates Debbie Reynolds’ Demand.
In your interview “CBS Sunday Morning,” Dunn recalled, “Debbie called me and said my daughter wants to go to New York, but I won’t let her live alone, you have to be her roommate. So, we became roommates.”
Around the same time, Fisher landed a breakout role in “Star Wars,” which she remembers initially being somewhat dismissive of, saying, “She got this role in this movie, and she’s like, ‘This is ridiculous, but I have to accept it.'”
“Star Wars” premiered in 1977 and became an instant hit and created a worldwide impact.
Dunne said Fisher said “Star Wars” was “ridiculous,” but she had to take the role. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Dunn said of the film’s success and Fisher’s rapid rise to fame, “I mean, it was like the Beatles came back to life or something.”
“It’s a very special thing when one of your best friends suddenly becomes incredibly famous overnight. It’s also very hard when you’re the person who becomes incredibly famous,” he said.
Dunne’s memoir chronicles his childhood, growing up in a famous family that included his aunt Joan Didion, uncle John Gregory Dunne, and his father Dominick Dunne.
There is another memory involved as well “Star Wars” There was no star rising in his life before he achieved worldwide fame.
Fisher told Dunn that when they were discussing the possibility of her being in “Star Wars,” the film’s other two leads, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford, had already been cast. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis)
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In The Sunday Times piece, Dunn asked Fisher if there was a role for her in “Star Wars.”
He revealed that the lead has already been taken over by “Mark Someone,” better known as Mark Hamill.
He wrote, “The other main character is an old man named Harrison Ford. You may not have heard of him.”
He added, “I actually knew him. He was the carpenter my aunt, the writer Joan Didion, hired to build the deck of her beach house near Malibu when I was 17. Like an eager puppy, I handed him nails or pulled hardware out of his worn-out canvas toolkit. In return, he’d give me one of his Marlboros, whose filters I’d cut off because that’s what he did.”
In his memoir, Dunne also recalls meeting Harrison Ford before his fame, when he worked as a carpenter at his aunt Joan Didion’s home. (Getty Images)
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Dunn also claimed he took marijuana from Ford, and “idolized the man and was jealous that Carrie would get to spend so much time with him.”
Fisher said in her 2016 memoir, “The Princess Diarist.” She and Ford had an affair during filming.
“It was very intense,” she told People. “During the week it was Han and Leia, and on the weekends it was Carrie and Harrison.”
The outlet reported that he sent a copy of his memoir to Ford ahead of publication, and that she always remembered him fondly.
“I was very inexperienced, but I believed something they said,” she recalled. “They were kind.”
