Daisy Ridley Shares J.J. Abrams' STAR WARS Advice To Her: "This Is Not A Role In A Movie. This Is A Religion."
Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley recently shared some advice she got from J.J. Abrams to help her prepare to take on the role of Rey in the sequel trilogy. This is advice that Abrams should’ve taken to heart himself, especially after how he treated the franchise.
Looking back on those early days, Ridley remembered Abrams telling her, "Understand the scale. This is not a role in a movie. This is a religion for people. It changes things on a level that is inconceivable."
She went on to talk about what it was like for her in the middle of all the Star Wars madness, saying: "When all of the craziness was going on. I was like, 'I’m good. I’m good. I’m coping fine. Everything’s fine.' And I was fine, for the most part. But I think what I was really grappling with was that it was my normal, but it was not normal to other people."
Ridley went on to say: "For friends and family, or any people who see something in a slightly different way than you do, there’s this projection of you, and you in that world, and how it feels to do this and that. And you’re like, ‘Well, actually, I’m just a human being, separate from that.’ It’s quite this wrestle, of the reality and the fantasy that’s often projected onto you."
Ridley is now gearing up to reprise her role in Star Wars: New Jedi Order. Ridley has talked about this film saying that it’s a new story and it’s “not what I expected,” and “something very special.” She also called the direction of the story “cool as shit.”
The movie is being directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who previously directed episodes of 2022’s Disney+ series Ms. Marvel. The script is being written by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders). Now we’ll just have to wait and see if this Star Wars movie gets made, or if it will fall apart like all of the other ones. Lucasfilm really needs to get its shit together in terms of getting these movies made.
Ridley anticipates starting work on that "sometime in the near future." Lucasfilm has not announced a release date for the movie.
Source: Inverse