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

The comparatively unknown actress grew to become a family title when she starred as Rey in 2015’s “The Drive Awakens.” She reprised her function in 2017’s “The Final Jedi” and 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker,” which primarily 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 considerations 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 easy methods to be Rey? It’s been some time, and time has handed in [the ‘Star Wars’] world. So there are loads of questions on what has occurred in that point, each for me and for the character; that in and of itself seems like a problem,” she defined.

“After which there’s the truth that I’ll be working with totally different actors and totally 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 totally different approaches when it’s a distinct workforce that I really feel like it’s going to 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, occurring to name it “an thrilling problem” and “an excellent one” as a result of “each job is a ‘Who is aware of?’”

“You may 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 standpoint.”

In Could 2024, the “Younger Lady and the Sea” star informed The Occasionsthat 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 manner, so my intestine was manifesting an emotional response to travelling around the globe, folks saying howdy to me on the street.”

“And me going, “What’s occurring?” And worrying. ‘Oh sh-t, ought to or not it’s me?’ or ‘Am I ok?’ 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.’ But it surely took a very long time,” she admitted, including, “It was tremendous intense.”

There was loads 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 had been initially hooked up to the mission, they had 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 route, emphasizing that Lucasfilm was working to make sure a top quality movie.

“Individuals have talked about it loads 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 best ways to inform this story is great, 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 exceptional author. So I’m actually wanting ahead to studying it, and sure, it’s all worthwhile.”

Final month, Ridley was dangling off the aspect of a skyscraper for her function 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 power firm that’s taken over by a radical extremist group throughout a shareholder social gathering.

Although she did loads of bodily stunts in a galaxy far, distant, Ridley informed THR that her function in “Cleaner” might need supplied the best bodily problem of her profession.

“On the finish of it, I used to be so lined in cuts and bruises. There’s a second the place … I hit the set so laborious that the lights and the whole lot [started shaking]. I additionally thought I broke one thing, however I feel 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 accessible to stream on VOD and digital platforms later this month on March 21, 2025.