Star Wars isn’t quite done with Rey yet, even if Daisy Ridley‘s feeling a little uncertain about returning to a galaxy far, far away. Ridley is set to return as Rey teaching a new generation of Jedi years after the events of the sequel trilogy, which concluded with The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. At the moment, we know Daisy Ridley is going to be starring as an older version of Rey, but not a lot else about the movie itself. Ridley has admitted that she’s feeling some of that uncertainty, and she’s got a “weird feeling” about stepping back into Rey’s shoes, for better or worse.
Daisy Ridley Discusses Coming Back to Star Wars as an Experienced Adult
The last time we saw Rey, the scavenger-turned-Jedi in training was slowly pulling Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) back to the light side of the force in The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Together, Kylo – aka Ben Solo – Rey, Finn (John Boyega) and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) have to team up to defeat the First Order under the command of Emperor Palpatine, who has somehow survived being thrown out of the Death Star back in Return of the Jedi.
The Rise of Skywalker also stars Mark Hamill and the late Carrie Fisher star as Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, two-thirds of the original trilogy trio that serve as the “old guard” when compared to Rey, Finn, Poe, and Kylo’s new generation of Jedi and Rebels. One of the biggest differences between the sequel trilogy and Daisy Ridley’s upcoming Star Wars movie is that the new movie has Rey moving to the grown-ups table, so to speak, and Ridley has told TotalFilm that coming back to her role after so long, and as an adult, is a little weird.
“I honestly have had moments where I’m like, ‘I don’t know if I remember what I did [as Rey]…It’s really strange. I think the whole thing will feel so different anyway with a totally different team. I’m in a very different place than I was. I’m probably going to be one of the adults, and initially, I was the youngest person on set, which is a weird feeling.”
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In a separate interview with Empire, Ridley discussed the prospect of stepping into Rey’s shoes as an “interesting challenge” as she comes back to set and has to figure out what’s changed for her as a person and for Rey as a character. We imagine it’s a problem some Star Wars actors have faced before – namely, Hamill, Fisher, and Harrison Ford, who had to become Luke, Leia, and Han decades after they last played their roles.
Ridley also discussed her hopes that she’ll be able to work with the same crew from the sequel trilogy, and that while “many people shifted” a lot of crewmembers stuck around for all three films. We already know that the new Star Wars movie will be bringing in a new director in Sharmeed Obaid-Chinoy, director of Ms. Marvel (2022). Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, was brought on to rewrite the movie script last year.
More information on Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars movie will likely become available as production continues.
