During a recent interview with Inverse, Daisy Ridley has shared the advice J.J. Abrams gave her after being cast as Rey in the Star Wars sequels.
“Understand the scale,” Abrams told her when he offered her Rey. “This is not a role in a movie. This is a religion for people. It changes things on a level that is inconceivable.”
“When all of the craziness was going on … I was like, ‘I’m good. I’m good. I’m coping fine. Everything’s fine.’ And I was fine, for the most part. But I think what I was really grappling with was that it was my normal, but it was not normal to other people,” Ridley explained.
“For friends and family, or any people who see something in a slightly different way than you do, there’s this projection of you, and you in that world, and how it feels to do this and that … And you’re like, ‘Well, actually, I’m just a human being, separate from that.’ It’s quite this wrestle, of the reality and the fantasy that’s often projected onto you,” she added.
Read the interview in full here. Sometimes I Think About Dying is out now in the US and is released in the UK and Europe on May 3rd, 2024.
