It often feels like we’ll never run out of fascinating behind-the-scenes stories about the five “Star Wars” films that Disney has produced thus far. The latest of these comes from Daisy Ridley, who played the main character of the new numbered Disney trilogy. The status of Rey’s backstory was always strange, but Ridley made it clear on Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that it was a bit stranger than we realized.
Josh Gad, who was guest-hosting in place of Kimmel on Tuesday, asked Ridley about when she found out that Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) was Rey’s secret grandfather. And Ridley provided a complicated answer.
“At the beginning, there was toying with like an Obi-Wan connection. And then it really went — there were different versions, and then it really went to that she was no one,” Ridley said. “And then it came to “Episode IX,” and JJ pitched...
Josh Gad, who was guest-hosting in place of Kimmel on Tuesday, asked Ridley about when she found out that Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) was Rey’s secret grandfather. And Ridley provided a complicated answer.
“At the beginning, there was toying with like an Obi-Wan connection. And then it really went — there were different versions, and then it really went to that she was no one,” Ridley said. “And then it came to “Episode IX,” and JJ pitched...
- 9/9/2020
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
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