HOLLYWOOD ¨C It has been two years since I last sat down to speak with Daisy Ridley, the heroine in a new generation of ¡°Star Wars¡± films. A lot has changed since then.
As an opener I casually mention that the name of her ¡°Star Wars¡± character, Rey, is also the Spanish word for ¡°king¡± and posit that may foretell the direction she takes in the latest film of the franchise, ¡°Star Wars: The Last Jedi.¡± But the 25-year-old Ridley is good at this game now, she spills nothing in terms of plot and instead praises the franchise¡¯s forward thinking.
¡°In older movies you wouldn¡¯t have Rey as the protagonist,¡± she tells The Japan Times. ¡°She¡¯d be the girlfriend ... or a princess.¡± Ridley then remembers the princess of her franchise. ¡°There was Princess Leia in the original ¡®Star Wars,¡¯ but now she¡¯s a general. Princesses have no real power ¡ª generals do.¡±
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