George Lucas said that originally he wanted to show Chewbacca being jealous of Han and Leia's budding relationship in ESB. That story element was dropped because there wasn't enough movie time. This leaves us with little interaction between Leia and Chewie. The closest thing they have to a conversation in the whole trilogy, as far as I can tell, is their exchange while Chewie is strangling Lando. That isn't much to work with. Even if we assume that Chewie is jealous, as George planned but didn't show, we still don't know how Leia feels about Chewie.
Or do we?
( Actually... )(Crossposted from
my starwars.com blog.)