Daisy Ridley Reveals Her Biggest ‘Challenge’ Returning To ‘Star Wars’

The comparatively unknown actress grew to become a family identify when she starred as Rey in 2015’s “The Pressure Awakens.” She reprised her function in 2017’s “The Final Jedi” and 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker,” which basically shut the ebook on the Skywalker saga.

Though she is returning to her function in a brand new movie set roughly ten years after the 2019 film, she does have some issues about stepping again into Rey’s Jedi boots.

“The primary three movies, we did pretty shut collectively within the grand scheme of issues. So one of many issues is: ‘Do I keep in mind how one can be Rey? It’s been some time, and time has handed in [the ‘Star Wars’] world. So there are a variety of questions on what has occurred in that point, each for me and for the character; that in and of itself appears like a problem,” she defined.

“After which there’s the truth that I’ll be working with completely different actors and completely different filmmakers, which brings up various things,” she added. “And that’s all the time progressive, I suppose, as a result of it’s another person’s interpretation.”

“There are such a lot of completely different approaches when it’s a distinct workforce that I really feel like it would already be a problem to bridge the earlier movies and this one, as a result of it’s been a very long time,” she defined, happening to name it “an thrilling problem” and “an ideal one” as a result of “each job is a ‘Who is aware of?’”

“You possibly can have a tremendous script, a tremendous director, a tremendous tick, tick, tick, tick, however you simply don’t know what one thing is perhaps,” she continued. “The potential is all there, however none of us is aware of [what will happen]. We do our work and we go dwelling, and a lot of it’s in different folks’s palms. It’s all the time a lesson in interpretation and viewpoint.”

In Could 2024, the “Younger Girl and the Sea” star advised The Timesthat her function within the “Star Wars” franchise gave her leaky intestine syndrome, in addition to different well being points.

When requested about how the stress of her function impacted her well being, she replied, “Oh, God! Basically, it was a leaky intestine. I used to be simply knackered. I’d by no means travelled that a lot, or finished press junkets, and my physique offers with stress in a really bodily approach, so my intestine was manifesting an emotional response to travelling around the globe, folks saying whats up to me on the street.”

“And me going, “What’s happening?” And worrying. ‘Oh sh-t, ought to it’s me?’ or ‘Am I adequate?’ And I solely actually felt I used to be by the third movie, The Rise of Skywalker. By then, I felt, ‘OK, I used to be chosen for a motive.’ However it took a very long time,” she admitted, including, “It was tremendous intense.”

There was a variety of concern about her new “Star Wars” film given what number of instances the mission has modified palms. Though “Misplaced” creator Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson have been initially attached to the project, they have been fired and changed by “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight.

Nonetheless, as of January 2025, he has been changed by “Ocean’s 12” scribe George Nolfi. When requested by The Hollywood Reporter, Ridley felt assured within the film’s general path, emphasizing that Lucasfilm was working to make sure a high quality movie.

“Individuals have talked about it so much that the discharge date usually impacts movies and the way shortly issues go into manufacturing. So the liberty to be sure that this script is one of the simplest ways to inform this story is fantastic, and I don’t suppose any followers would need it to be rushed,” she defined. “The wait shall be value it. I do know what George is engaged on, and he is an outstanding author. So I’m actually wanting ahead to studying it, and sure, it’s all worthwhile.”

Final month, Ridley was dangling off the facet of a skyscraper for her role in Martin Campbell’s “Cleaner.” Within the movie, Ridley performed a personality named Joey Locke, a former soldier who’s now a high-rise window cleaner for a high-rise constructing in London that homes a outstanding vitality firm that’s taken over by a radical extremist group throughout a shareholder get together.

Regardless that she did a variety of bodily stunts in a galaxy far, far-off, Ridley advised THR that her function in “Cleaner” might need offered the best bodily problem of her profession.

“On the finish of it, I used to be so coated in cuts and bruises. There’s a second the place … I hit the set so exhausting that the lights and all the things [started shaking]. I additionally thought I broke one thing, however I believe I simply bruised my bone,” Ridley revealed. “Additionally, the emotional upkeep at that degree of angst was so excessive that I used to be exhausted by the top of the shoot.”

The movie launched in theaters on February 21 and shall be obtainable to stream on VOD and digital platforms later this month on March 21, 2025.