Daisy Ridley admits it still feels "deeply uncomfortable" to confront sexism on film sets. The Star Wars actress has reflected on her experiences on another project — which she hasn't named — when she noticed she was being treated differently to one of her male co-stars. Appearing on the Reign with Josh Smith podcast, she said: "I did...
Daisy Ridley spent months training with Olympian Siobhan-Marie O'Connor for her new role as a marathon swimmer. The Star Wars actress plays plays the lead role in Young Woman and the Sea — a biopic about Gertrude Ederle, an American swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English channel in 1926, and spent months completing intense...
British actress Daisy Ridley says reprising her role as Jedi hero Rey feels "exciting and nerve-racking" as she returns to the Star Wars franchise for a new film. Walt Disney Co, which purchased Star Wars producer Lucasfilm in 2012 and released three movies starring Ridley from 2015 to 2019, as well as different TV series, announced...
Daisy Ridley is ready to return to a galaxy far far away! The 31-year-old actress portrayed Rey in 2015′s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2017′s The Last Jedi, and 2019′s The Rise of Skywalker. Back in April 2023, it was confirmed that Daisy will return to headline an upcoming Star Wars movie! Daisy recently described how she feels about reprising her role and continuing Rey’s story. “I...
Daisy Ridley feared she had ruined Star Wars with her acting. The 31-year-old played heroine Rey in the trilogy The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi and the Rise of Skywalker, and said she found it traumatic watching her first turn in the sci-fi franchise. She told Inverse magazine: "Honestly, the first time I watched myself on screen,...
Since the release of Episode IV: A New Hope in 1977, Star Wars has grown into a massive franchise spanning multiple movies, television series and video games. Fox Business wrote in 2020 that combined box-office total for all the films was around $10 billion worldwide, making the franchise among the highest-earning of all time. To mark the release of Disney+‘s new series The Book...
