Hollywood is still mourning Carrie Fisher. The beloved actress died on December 27—but as the world leaves 2016 behind, her friends, co-stars, and family members have continued to pen loving tributes.

Most notably, Fisher’s longtime co-star and friend Mark Hamill has recalled his time on set with Fisher during the filming of Star Wars. As he wrote in The Hollywood Reporter on Monday, he first met Fisher in London before they started filming A New Hope. He quickly learned not to underestimate his co-star.

“You know, she was 19 years old at the time,” Hamill wrote. “I was a worldly 24. So I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, it’ll be like working with a high-school kid.’ But I was just bowled over. I mean she was just so instantly ingratiating and funny and outspoken. She had a way of just being so brutally candid. . . . She just sucked you into her world.”

Throughout their time working on four Star Wars films together—the original trilogy and 2015’s The Force Awakens—Hamill said he would do “crazy things to amuse [Fisher] on the set.” Example?

Once at lunchtime she said, “You should try on my jumpsuit.” I said, “The one-piece white jumpsuit? You’re what, 5’2”? I’ll never get in!” She said, “Just try.” I put on that Princess Leia zipper jump suit and it was so tight I looked like a Vegas lounge singer. If that wasn’t ridiculous enough, she had me put on one of those bald cap masks with the Bozo hair and glasses and nose and then she walked me around the back lot.

“Making her laugh was always a badge of honor,” Hamill wrote, adding that to him, Fisher was like family.

Another co-star who adored Fisher? Sharon Horgan, the star of Catastrophe. In the Brit-com, Fisher played a comedic riff on herself—one of her most endearing talents—but Horgan was simply shocked she’d agreed to appear in the show at all.

“Rob Delaney and I were desperate to get Carrie in our show,” Horgan writes in The Guardian. “Even three series in, we could still barely believe it. To begin with, we treated her like everyone else did: as an icon, not a real human. Which is why, I think, it took a while to become pals. And because she mostly turned down my invitations, with charming, poetic, and hilarious texts.”

Horgan actually had dinner with Fisher before the latter’s ill-fated flight from London to Los Angeles, during which Fisher suffered the massive heart attack that led to her death. It was just Horgan, Salman Rushdie, Fisher, and her dog, Gary—whom, Horgan noted, spent the evening farting. Among everything she appreciated about Fisher, Horgan most strongly emphasized the Star Wars icon’s unwavering stance against certain double standards in Hollywood—as well as her authenticity.

She was, she said, Mickey Mouse. Everybody owned a piece, or felt they had the right to a piece. But the beautiful truth about Carrie is that she was genuine. She knew her talents, she knew her cultural importance, but she was humble, too. She didn’t have to feign her modesty. Her modesty and insecurity were part of her makeup. She was so real that it was almost dangerous. Actually, it was dangerous. Because she didn’t play the game. She said what she thought and, in an industry where that’s not always welcome, it sometimes came back to bite her. But she couldn’t help herself. She had very little filter.
My God, girls, we owe her a lot.