Actor 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 new plans for the franchise in 2023. It said Ridley's new film would focus on rebuilding the New Jedi Order.
"I'm very excited, it feels like a new adventure," Ridley told Reuters at the London premiere of another Disney film, Young Woman and the Sea, on Wednesday. "It's a world that I'm familiar with, I'm coming back to, but also it feels like a new start. So it feels exciting and nerve-racking and I'm excited.
" Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Tuesday, Ridley said she had yet to read a script for the Star Wars film. "I have not read actual words on actual paper, but (a script) is soon coming," she told the publication.
In Young Woman and the Sea, Ridley plays American swimmer Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle, an Olympic gold medallist who became the first woman to swim the English Channel. In 1926, Ederle set off from northern France for the southern English coast, making the crossing in 14 hours, 31 minutes and beating the men's world record by one hour and 59 minutes. Despite a huge celebratory parade in New York on her return, Ederle's name and accomplis.