Daisy Ridley hasn’t rewatched ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: “I watched it maybe three times around the time it came out”

11 February, 2025

Daisy Ridley

Daisy Ridley rose to fame playing Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy beginning with 2015’s The Force Awakens, but it turns out she hasn’t rewatched it since it first came out.

Ridley took part in a Q&A after a screening of her upcoming movie Cleaner, hosted by Collider, and was asked how many times she’s seen The Force Awakens.

“I watched it maybe three times around the time it came out,” she answered. “And then weirdly it was on in the gym when I was working out, so I saw a bit of it recently.”

She went on to say that she has to separate watching herself on the screen from watching a movie she’s in as a whole. “It’s never really comfortable, but certainly when it came on recently I was like, ‘Aw!’ and it really felt, like, very sweet to watch very young me on the screen.”

Ridley, who then appeared in 2017’s The Last Jedi and 2019’s The Rise Of Skywalker to complete the trilogy, also updated ComicBook on her upcoming Star Wars movie, in which she’ll again be playing Rey – and it has working title of Star Wars: New Jedi Order. Earlier this year, she described the plot as being “cool as shit.”

While most of the details are being kept under wraps, it’s reported that Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is directing and George Nolfi is working on the screenplay – after a number of writers, including Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders), dropped out. Ridley said: “I have not read the latest script, but I know what’s happening, and I know the story, and I think what feels really good is that George is a phenomenal writer.

“I think we’re making sure that this story is the best way, this script is the best way to tell the story, and I think it will be worthwhile for everyone watching it, and I am very excited, yeah.”

Last year, Ridley – who’s been open about her experience living with conditions including Graves’ disease, endometriosis, and polycystic ovary syndrome – shared that the stress of being a part of Star Wars had impacted her health.

She told The Times: “I’d never travelled that much, or done press junkets, and my body deals with stress in a very physical way, so my gut was manifesting an emotional reaction to travelling around the world, people saying hello to me in the street. And me going, ‘What’s going on?’ and worrying.”

In the action thriller Cleaner, meanwhile, Ridley stars as Joey Locke, a former soldier-turned-window cleaner for a London highrise. When activists take over an energy company’s annual gala held in the building and take 300 people hostage in a bid to expose the company’s corruption, Locke finds out that some of the group want to blow the building up. When she discovers that one of the hostages is her brother, she attempts to save the hostages.

Also among the cast are Clive Owen, Taz Skylar, Flavia Watson, Ray Fearon, Rufus Jones, Richard Hope and Lee Boardman. The movie is set to be released in cinemas on February 21.

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