Gies was the secretary of Otto Frank, and her fierce altruistic side put her marriage in jeopardy. She tells one of the people she saves: “If you need to cry, cry now.” She bluffs her way past army checkpoints and gathers scarce food for the hidden. Viewers first meet Gies as an aimless party girl who is transformed into a resistance fighter after the Nazis invade. “It needs to make people feel ‘What would I do and what should I do?’ Because the situation right now isn’t that different.” “There’s no point in retelling a story about this part of history that everyone knows so well if we’re just going to be bashed over the head by the same historical facts we already know,” said Powley. Carrie Fisher gets her Walk of Fame star, on May the Fourth
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