Star Wars franchise star Daisy Ridley is looking back at the polarizing response to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.After joining the franchise with The Force Awakens, Ridley wrapped up the sequel trilogy with her return as Rey Skywalker in 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. The film didn’t get the warmest reception with the fan base, as while it has its fans, The Rise of Skywalker was met with mixed reviews, currently sitting with a 51% score on Rotten Tomatoes. In a new interview with Josh Horowitz for the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Ridley shared how she feels about the reception to the film, observing how the responses to each one of the three installments of the trilogy seemed to just get worse and worse.Ridley also shared how she noticed in 2023 that there had been an increase in interest on if she would return to Star Wars as Rey Skywalker. As Ridley explained, “What was strange is, literally before I had breakfast with Kathy [Kennedy] last year… I had five people come to me and go, ‘Are they going to do any more with you?’ And it was really strange. In the sort of six to eight months before that, the way with which I was being greeted by people’s response to it was quite different than it had been. And I think, just, time had passed… And so, tha’s what was really strange.”
Star Wars franchise star Daisy Ridley is looking back at the polarizing response to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
After joining the franchise with The Force Awakens, Ridley wrapped up the sequel trilogy with her return as Rey Skywalker in 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. The film didn’t get the warmest reception with the fan base, as while it has its fans, The Rise of Skywalker was met with mixed reviews, currently sitting with a 51% score on Rotten Tomatoes. In a new interview with Josh Horowitz for the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Ridley shared how she feels about the reception to the film, observing how the responses to each one of the three installments of the trilogy seemed to just get worse and worse.
Ridley also shared how she noticed in 2023 that there had been an increase in interest on if she would return to Star Wars as Rey Skywalker. As Ridley explained, “What was strange is, literally before I had breakfast with Kathy [Kennedy] last year… I had five people come to me and go, ‘Are they going to do any more with you?’ And it was really strange. In the sort of six to eight months before that, the way with which I was being greeted by people’s response to it was quite different than it had been. And I think, just, time had passed… And so, tha’s what was really strange.”
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