We love Daisy Ridley as Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and we have doubt we’ll love her in The Last Jedi too, but we’ve pretty much been told by the actress that, after Episode IX, due on December 20th, 2019, we’ll probably not be seeing her again in the role.
a few weeks ago Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy said she sees the franchise continuing for a long time and the story of Rey, Finn (John Boyega) and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaacs) being part of that containing story (here), however now Ridley has said that’s not really how she sees it.
“For me,” Ridley says of joining the world’s greatest franchise (deal with it), “I didn’t really know what I was signing on to. I hadn’t read the script, but from what I could tell, it was really nice people involved, so I was just like, ‘Awesome.’ Now I think I am even luckier than I knew then, to be part of something that feels so like coming home now.
“I am really, really excited to do the third thing and round it out, because ultimately, what I was signing on to was three films,” she goes on, “So in my head, it’s three films. I think it will feel like the right time to round it out.”
While internet rumours – as they tend to do – have already jumped to conclude the weird and wonderful, we don’t see Rey being recast in future instalments: after all, the sage waited a long time and brough back Hamill, Ford and Fisher, so recasting isn’t something Star Wars (thankfully) does.
So what say you all? If Rey steps down will she have to be killed off on screen? If she does leave does that mean Poe and Finn can stay without her?
Difficult to see, the future is…
Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens on December 15th, 2017
Source: Rolling Stone
Marc
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