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'Bright Lights' filmmakers on Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
When documentarians Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens started working on Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, they could not have imagined it would end up being a posthumous tribute to both women. Originally set to air in March, HBO has moved up the film’s premiere to January 7.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenDirectors Fisher Stevens and Alexis Bloom started filming a documentary about Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds in 2014. They simply expected to make an intimate portrait of an extraordinary mother-daughter duo, never imagining that both of their subjects would pass away in December within a day of each other. Stevens and Bloom talk about the shock of those losses--and the joys and challenges of making their new documentary Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds for HBO.
Photo: Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, from a photograph included in Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Courtesy of HBO.
