Sharon Horgan Says Carrie Fisher ‘Would Have Wanted to Work More’ After Star Wars Fame (Exclusive)

Carrie Visser still had a lot to give before she passed away in 2016.

Sharon Horgan, who worked with the late actress Catastrophewas one of the last people to see her for she had a heart attack during a plane ride And died days later at the age of 60. The actresses had dinner with Salman Rushdie in London before Fisher boarded a flight back to Los Angeles, where she went into cardiac arrest.

Reflecting on her time with the star, Horgan, 54, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue that Fisher was “kind of dangerous.”

“I think because she was such an outspoken, honest person, she got the short stick in Hollywood. She was honest and outspoken when that wasn’t fashionable,” she says.

Sharon Horgan, Rob Delaney and Carrie Fisher in ‘Catastrophe’.

Amazon

Describing Fisher as “a woman who didn’t necessarily play things the way she was told or supposed to, and she was a damn entertaining person, a tremendous wit and a tremendously smart person,” Horgan says the late actress wasn’t always pleased with her career, because she felt trapped afterwards the success of Star Wars.

“She was very aware that her fame was something that was hard to understand. You can’t understand it. She would say, ‘I look like Mickey Mouse,’” Horgan recalls. “You get put in a movie like that and you become so famous that it’s almost like your image is no longer your own.”

Although she understood the difficulty of her fame, Fisher “had an unnecessarily long period of time away from working where she would have liked to be working.”

“I wish I wrote parts for her,” Horgan says.

Carrie Fisher in ‘Catastrophe’.

Amazon

“I think ultimately she was a storyteller in her writing and in her acting, and she would like to continue to do that through these mediums,” she continues. “It’s our loss. It’s a shame because she was just an incredible person.”

For more on Sharon Horgan, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.

The actresses then met Fisher joined season 3 of Catastrophe — the sitcom that Horgan created and starred in Rob Delaney – and Horgan says she “felt like I was just getting to know her” when she died.

Sharon Horgan and Carrie Fisher at the premiere of ‘Catastrophe’ at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.

Splash News Online

“She knew how much I enjoyed her. She was so funny and so quick. And I mean, she loved being in (Catastrophe). She was thrilled to get the opportunity to play such a character,” says the Bad sisters creator and star says of Fisher’s portrayal of her character’s difficult mother-in-law, Mia. “And she wishes she had more opportunity to do that.”

Never miss a story – sign up PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up to date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

“I think about her a lot,” Horgan admits. “Mostly because I wish she was still here.”