Carrie Fisher receives posthumous star on Walk of Fame on 'Star Wars' day

Billie Lourd, daughter of the late actress Carrie Fisher, pictured at right and on Lourd's dress, poses alongside "Star Wars" characters C-3PO and R2-D2 at a posthumous ceremony honoring Fisher with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 4, 2023. The day is also known as May the Fourth in tribute to the 'Star Wars' films in which Fisher played Princess Leia. – Photo: AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

May the 4th, the annual unofficial Star Wars day, was bittersweet for fans in Hollywood as Princess Leia actress Carrie Fisher, who died at age 60 in 2016, received a posthumous star on the Walk of Fame on Thursday.

Along with a large group of fans, Star Wars droids R2-D2 and C-3PO and a pair of Stormtroopers came to the ceremony, as did actor Mark Hamill, director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy.