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INTERVIEW

CLAUDIA GRAY

Leia: Princess of Alderaan takes us back
in time to the hero’s formative years.

Who is Leia to you? very early stage, when even its
To me, Leia is the archetypal core founders were unsure what
hero. For all that she’s in distress shape their alliance would take.
when we first meet her, she’s no

swooning damsel. Her humor, her Where is Leia in her life in
feistiness, her tactical smarts, her the book?
leadership: every part of her Leia is at the point in her life
nature and personality come when she will be offi cially named
together to make her a deeply heir to the throne of Alderaan,
engaging character. I see her as which means she has to take on
someone who is sincerely new challenges. She’s discovering
dedicated to her duty and to the her limitations and her strengths,

STAR WARS: greater good—but who still leads and finding out who she really is.
LEIA, PRINCESS a life with passions and pains as And she’s building new
OF ALDERAAN strong as anyone’s. relationships with her parents;
PUB / DISNEY LUCASFILM And really, Leia is the she still loves and admires them,
PRESS Rebellion and the Resistance. but she’s interacting with them
RELEASE / SEPT, 2017
She was a part of that fi ght on a more adult level. I think I can
before Luke and Han ever safely say that Bail and Breha
showed up, and she remained a Organa play major roles in the
part of it after they’d gone. Leia book. While this is fundamentally
is the core warrior in Star Wars. Leia’s story, in some sections it’s
almost as much a story about the
When does the book take place? Organas told through their
It takes place about three years daughter’s eyes.
before A New Hope, about six
months before Leia’s fi rst How is this Leia different
appearance in Rebels. This is the to the character you wrote
story of how Leia Organa fi rst in Bloodline?
became a part of the Rebellion, She’s younger, not just in years
and gives some hints as to why but in spirit. She hasn’t gone
she’s already a major leader at to war yet, hasn’t had to give
the time of A New Hope. It’s also difficult orders, hasn’t seen

a snapshot of the Rebellion at a friends die in battle. Leia’s

“I WAS FLABBERGASTED THE FIRST
TIME I WAS TOLD A SPACESHIP

COULDN’T BE SOMEWHERE, BECAUSE IT

WAS CANONICALLY SOMEWHERE ELSE!”

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