Speaking with Who What Wear and taking part in an extensive photoshoot, Daisy Ridley chatted about where she is right now in a post-Star Wars lockdown world and how the end of her Star Wars journey affected her.
The fact is, without this powerful combination of enthusiasm, intensity, and focus, Ridley might not have landed one of the biggest movie roles in one of the biggest film franchises of all time. If you Google it, you can watch one of her many audition screenings with director J.J. Abrams, where both her urgency and ability to emote are plain to see. But last year, that five-year, three-blockbuster journey ended, and she was left with a rather galactic void to fill. Following the premieres, press junkets, and chat-show circuit, she recalls staying in a hotel and being unable to sleep. “I was like, ‘What am I supposed to do now?’” She spent much of January 2020 feeling a little bit lonely, a little bit weepy, and a little bit unlike herself. “I guess it was sort of like grieving. These relationships and this amount of time had come to an end. It really felt like I was letting go of something emotionally,” she says. She hadn’t been home properly in years and had to recalibrate to the “massive quiet” of not necessarily having a crazy schedule or being surrounded by dozens and dozens of others.
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