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HERE'S WHY "STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI" STAR DAISY RIDLEY SAYS REY IS MISSING HAN SOLO, WORRIED ABOUT FINN
By ROB LOWMAN, Los Angeles Daily News
With less than 2 weeks until the opening “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Disney and Lucasfilm have kept the film tightly under wraps.
Castmembers got to see it last week, but the press won’t see director Rian Johnson’s film until Dec. 9 and are embargoed from reviewing it until the 12th. The official description of the movie is “an epic adventure that unlocks age-old mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past.”
Still, despite the director and cast being extremely guarded about the film, we gleaned information about it from the press day for “The Last Jedi.”
Here’s the first:
Many of the character’s who were together in “The Force Awakens” won’t have as much screen time together in the new film.
Daisy Ridley, who plays the trilogy’s heroine Rey, says she was taken by the fact that many of the characters of “Force” are off on their own adventures.
At the end of “Force,” we see Rey arriving with R2-D2 on the planet where Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) has been hiding out. While either of them could be the “Last Jedi” of the title, it’s expected that, like in “The Empire Strikes Back” where Yoda trained Luke to become a Jedi knight, Luke will train Rey.
Hamill was coy about this. But when asked if his character would miss Harrison’s Ford’s Han Solo, who was killed at the end of “The Force Awakens,” John Boyega, who plays Rey’s pal Finn, indicated he would have other things on his mind.
“Rey is off training. She’s got stuff to do,” says Boyega. “Finn’s got stuff to do. I can’t think about Han at the moment.”
Ridley looked at it differently. She had earlier noted that “people had responded so well to John and I as a team” and that when she read the script for “Jedi,” “I was a little bit nervous about not being a team so much in this one.”
“For me, the film was a challenge because of the different combinations of people,” says the 25-year-old actress. “There are new people we’re learning about and meeting for the first time.”
While the others may not miss Han, Ridley’s Rey saw him as a father figure.
“The beauty of the storylines happening in tandem is that Rey is very much affected by (Han’s death),” she says. “In the first film, Rey has been alone for a very long time and she is really open to love and friendship when Finn comes along, and there is this amazing adventure.”
When Han enters Rey’s life, “Rey seeks something from him, because he’s a sort of figure she’s never dreamed of, and everything is new to her,” Ridley says. So she begins understanding things in a different way. “There’s an intimacy and there’s a sort of figure of something she’s never dreamed of for her that gets snatched away.”
Apparently alluding to the new film without letting out too much, Ridley says that Rey is trying to get grip on everything that’s going on “while everything is moving forward. She has some time to think about questions about what would lead someone to do that. So I’d say she’s a little more affected, at least emotionally, onscreen.”
Adding, “And she’s worried about Finn at home."
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” opens Dec. 15.