It is easy to miss, but George Lucas and Carrie Fisher have a quick cameo together in Hook. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Hook is a 1991 movie about a middle-aged Peter Pan returning to Neverland to rescue his children from Captain Hook. While Hook stars Robin Williams and Julia Roberts, it also features cameos by many other celebrities, including Glenn Close, Phil Collins, and Gwyneth Paltrow. However, Lucas and Fisher’s cameo is much harder to spot.
Throughout much of Hook, Peter Banning did not remember his childhood as Peter Pan. Due to this, Tinkerbell abducted him to take him back to Neverland. As she flew Peter across London, some of her pixie dust fell onto a couple kissing on a bridge. Empowered by Tinkerbell’s magic, the couple immediately began floating in the air. Although viewers cannot see their faces, this couple was Lucas and Fisher.
One post (via Reddit) pointed out the cameo, which was confirmed (via The Wrap) during Hook’s 25th anniversary. However, this still raises the question of why they were included in the movie. The reason connects to Fisher’s involvement in Hook. Throughout her Hollywood career, Fisher worked as not only an actor, but a script doctor. This means that Carrie Fisher edited scripts for specific elements, such as characterization, structure, and dialogue. Although her role was uncredited, Fisher edited Hook’s script.
As a script doctor, one of Fisher’s specialties was improving female characters. Due to this, much of her work on Hook concentrated on Roberts’ Tinkerbell. Fisher added many of Tinkerbell’s comedic moments, making her character and the movie as a whole more fun. As thanks for her revisions to Hook, Spielberg decided to give Fisher a cameo in the film. Additionally, Lucas was both a longtime friend of Spielberg and friends with Fisher from their work together on the original Star Wars trilogy, so Spielberg included him in the cameo as well.
After Hook, Fisher went on to edit scripts for many other successful movies, often focusing on female characters. For example, Fisher added even more comedy to Sister Act (1992) and further developed Rene Russo’s character, Lorna Cole, in Lethal Weapon 3 (1992). Fisher also worked on the popular animated movie, Anastasia (1997), adding an entire scene. Rather than immediately jumping into a song, Fisher wrote the scene where Anya, who did not remember that she was Anastasia, debated her future and decided to search for her family. Although Fisher did not have cameos in all of the movies she edited, her role as a script doctor earned her and Lucas, a friend to both her and Spielberg, cameos as the couple on the bridge in Hook.
