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Medan subtila, har skriptet Leia tydligt reagera på nyheterna från Luke. Men även innan han bekräftade att hon är hans syster, har Leia pieced samman pusslet. Hon är visad att vara störd och rädd.
LUKE
He's my father.LEIA
Your father?LUKE
There's more. It won't be easy for you to hear it, but you must. If I don't make it back, you're the only hope for the Alliance.Leia is very disturbed by this. She moves away, as if to deny it.
LEIA
Luke, don't talk that way. You have a power I--I don't understand and could never have.LUKE
You're wrong, Leia. You have that power too. In time you'll learn to use it as I have. The Force is strong in my family. My father has it...I have it...and...my sister has it.Leia stares into his eyes. What she sees there frightens her. But she doesn't draw away. She begins to understand.
LUKE
Yes. It's you Leia.LEIA
I know. Somehow...I've always known.
Return of the Jedi Script - IMSDB
Nu när hennes ton ändras ganska snabbt, och uppenbarelsen till henne inte leder till samma emotionellt laddade utbrott som det gjorde för Luke, visar hon tydligt överraskning. Hur hon tog nyheten verkar reflektera över hennes karaktär. En härdad rebell som vuxit upp kunglig men bland de svårigheter som upproret kämpade för vad hon trodde var rätt. Oavsett om hon någonsin accepterat Anakin som sin far är oklart. Men i The Force Awakens och The Last Jedi höll hon sitt namn Organa och verkar värdera sina adoptivföräldrar mer än hennes biologiska far.
I den officiella canon junior novelization publicerad 2015, beskrivs Leias reaktion ytterligare.
And now a lot of things begin to make sense to Leia. Things that have never made sense before.
“Yes. It’s you, Leia. You are my sister.” Yes, just like Luke, she feels the truth of this immediately. But what a truth to finally acknowledge! Finding out that Luke is her brother should bring her joy…but to learn that the dreaded Darth Vader—who captured her, imprisoned her, even tortured her—is her father? Alas, the joy of gaining a brother is lost for now in the shadow of their dark father.
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! Chapter 49: In which Leia Learns the Truth at Last