Speaking at the Sundance festival in the Variety Studio, presented by Audible, Daisy Ridley – someone who knows more than a thing or two about the difficulties of fame, especially in the pressure cooker of the Star Wars galaxy – had some advice for actresses coming into the GFFA, including The Acolyte star Amandla Stenberg.
“The world is a crazy place, it’s important to tune out the stuff. Not just with ‘Star Wars,’ but with everything, you try and be in the moment and enjoy what it is because life moves quickly. Amandla Stenberg can handle herself. She’s been working for a long time. I sat next to someone at the ‘Wakanda Forever’ premiere, an executive, and they said [‘The Acolyte’] is amazing.”
“Everyone knows how things are and how they can be. We’re all living in that, with people saying more than they need to and commenting more than they need to. It’s so individual. Find the good in it all and enjoy it.”
Daisy also discussed her film Sometimes I Think About Dying, a very different role to her usual fare.
“I was very nervous. I knew we made a good movie, but it was strange. When you know what’s coming, it’s like, ‘How are people going to receive this?’ It was nerve-wracking for me because my storyline is away from the laughs, so I hoped people would still be into it.”
So, The Acolyte is amazing eh? Good to know and fingers crossed the final results bear that out when The Acolyte arrives on Disney Plus, most likely in 2024.
