“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” star Daisy Ridley just spilled what is next for Rey in the forthcoming “Star Wars film in an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly.
Ridley told Entertainment Weekly Rey will take the offensive in the new film, doing what she wants to do rather than listening to others.
Training: Ridley told Entertainment Weekly she trained in kickboxing ahead of the forthcoming film. Still, she said the fight scenes pack emotional weight, which made them hard to film.
- “It’s a heavy story for Rey. … There were days where I was literally like, ‘I can’t do this, I’m so tired, I don’t know if I can, like, reach that emotion again.’”
Parents: And, yes, Ridley said she is still on the search for the identity of her parents. She’s not satisfied with what she learned in “The Last Jedi.”
In the last “Star Wars” film, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) told Rey that her parents were nobodies who left her on Jakku after they traded her for a ship.
Rey will seek more answers to questions surrounding her parents.
- “The parents thing is not satisfied — for her and for the audience,” Ridley told Entertainment Weekly. “That’s something she’s still trying to figure out — where does she come from?”
- “It’s not that she doesn’t believe it,” Ridley says carefully, “but she feels there’s more to the story. And she needs to figure out what’s come before so she can figure out what to do next.”
More hype: Ridley previously hyped the new movie in an interview with Marie Claire.
- “It’s the first time I’ve filmed more confident because I feel like there was nothing else I could’ve done,” she said. “The third one for me was the best. It’s a big film for everyone. I did all of the emotions: I did frowns, I did smiles, it was the sort of biggest breadth, and I think that’s also why I had such a good time, because I got to do so much ... physically, emotionally — and I got to work with so many people.”
Scenes: Ridley also talked about the film has powerful new scenes, one of which will work well with music once it’s done in production, according to a report from the Deseret News.
- “There was a scene that touched me a lot,” she reportedly told AdoroCinema. “It was our last day shooting in Jordan and the natural light was fading. And it was so exciting. It was just a short scene, we filmed very fast, but the crew was shaken in a way I had not seen before. And I thought, ‘My God, if this is people’s immediate reaction when the scene isn’t even ready, imagine what it will be like to see it in the movies, with the John Williams soundtrack and all that.’”