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She played one of the most famous female film characters of all time... but nobody ever saw her face.

Now Ingvild Deila wants to do it again in a young Princess Leia spin-off film.

The Norweigian actress has given her first interview since replacing Carrie Fisher in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Your worshipfulness: Ingvild Deila - who played the young Princess Leia in Rogue One - wants to do it again in spin-off film

Speaking to These Are The Actors You're Looking For producer Jamie Stangroom, she admitted she would love for Disney to greenlight a Leia standalone — but admitted it would be a daunting task.

'I would be lying if i said no. It would be great,' she said.

'Really scary at the same time because shes such an iconic character and I really, really respect and admire Carrie Fisher and who she was. there would be two very big shoes to fill, you could never replace her.' 

Using groundbreaking CGI, filmmakers were able to alter the 29-year-old's appearance to look like the 19-year-old Fisher, for a scene set just before 1977's A New Hope.

Big shoes: Speaking to These Are The Actors You're Looking For producer Jamie Stangroom, she admitted she would love for Disney to greenlight a Leia standalone — but admitted it would be a daunting task

Daunting: She admitted it would be 'really scary at the same time because shes such an iconic character and I really, really respect and admire Carrie Fisher and who she was'

She admitted that she might have reconsidered taking on the role had the 60-year-old passed away before rather than just after the film premiered at Christmas.

'It would have been more difficult to say yes,' she said.

'Also it depends whether she'd been informed... If she was against it then I don't know if I would have said yes. But if she was fine with it, maybe yeah. It's hard to know... It would have been way more complicated.'

Leia wasn't the only character 'resurrected' for the film: another unseen actor - Guy Henry - played Governor Tarkin, originally played by Peter Cushing, who died in 1994.

Double: Using groundbreaking CGI, filmmakers were able to alter the 29-year-old's appearance to look like the 19-year-old Fisher (pictured), for a scene set just before 1977's A New Hope 

Deila agreed using deceased actor's likeness has ethical complications.

'I was just thinking: What if it was me? How would I feel? she mused.

'If they had to pay my living relatives or something, or forced to share the money, then yeah... I mean I'm dead, I don't care.

'We just need to establish a system where we do it right by their relatives or what they agreed on.'

Permission: Deila agreed using deceased actor's likeness has ethical complications

She also revealed it was a huge relief when she found out the late screen legend was impressed with her 'younger self'. 

'I didn't know how she felt about it until I red something about [Lucasfilm president] Kathleen Kennedy saying that Carrie Fisher enjoyed it... it was a huge relief,' she said. 

Ingvild - who had a small scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron - also discussed how she had no idea what she was signing up for when she first auditioned. 

'It was a very secretive, non-descript studio feature casting call,' she recalled. 'The measurements were quite precise.'

Missed: She admitted that she might have reconsidered taking on the role had the 60-year-old passed away before rather than just after the film premiered at Christmas (Fisher pictured in The Force Awakens)

'I had to do a self tape where I talked about anything for three minutes... I had no idea what they were looking for,' she said, admitting she 'just rambled on'.

'I realised what was actually happening because I was sent two scenes from a New Hope, when Leia meets Vader for the first time, and the hologram monologue,' she added 'I was like "oh my god is this happening?"' 

She said she had about a weekend to study those two scenes before she filmed it, and had to keep the secret of Leia's appearance for 18 months.

In the dark: Ingvild - who had a small scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron - also discussed how she had no idea what she was signing up for when she first auditioned

'I didn't know that we had any similar features... apparently our profiles are quite similar, but we're not so similar bang on. And of course her tones are different,' she said.

'Those buns are big... I had the hairy buns. And I had plenty of dots all over my face... like an exotic fish. I looked very strange.'

She added that she was not bitter at all that her face would never be seen. 

'I was just thrilled they were going to see how far they could push the effects and CGI,' she insisted.

Disney already has a 'young Han Solo' film in the works, with a second lined up - rumoured to center on Boba Fett - behind that. 

Thrilled: She added that she was not bitter at all that her face would never be seen