By Malina Saval. In , Byron Lane was working the midnight to 7 a. What was your inspiration for writing the book? You could have written a memoir about your experience working for Carrie Fisher. Why did you decide to heighten this story to fiction? Carrie used to like to write that way also, to take some inspiration from real life and turn it into a fictional story.
Those are the kinds of stories I like to read and those are the kinds of stories I like to write, so it sort of landed on that. And also being fiction, it does allow you the freedom to enhance moments for humor or emotion, so it really just gave me a little more freedom creatively. Popular on Variety. I went to her birthday party, which was in October β she died in December.
The thing about her, I always felt she was there, we always felt connected. We texted and we emailed. One day, for example, I was walking through Jonathan Adler and they had this giant foot sculpture made of marble and I took a picture of it and sent it to her.
How much is it? Is it because her spirit is still so very much a part of you? She does live inside me. When you work for someone as an assistant β and there are different assistant relationships β but in my experience with Carrie, I love her, I loved her, I cared about her, I felt in so many ways that her life was my responsibility.
I woke her up in the morning. Not being with her in the evenings was weird, not seeing her on the weekends was weird. And so you do build their life inside you.
