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Thursday 14 december 2017
With a lightsaber in hand, Daisy

Ridley returns to Star Wars

By LINDSEY BAHR close to at least finish- the things they do.
AP Film Writer ing the story and then we AP: There were some funny
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Daisy were able to question him. photos of you and Mark
Ridley went from obscurity That’s the beauty of work- Hamill on set and him rid-
to international stardom ing with a writer/director. ing on your back, like Yoda
when J.J. Abrams picked You can question things di- once did to him. What was
her to play the central rectly and things can hap- it like working with him?
character of the new Star pen very immediately. But RIDLEY: He is goofy. It was
Wars trilogy, and her char- also hilarious because Rian comforting working with
acter Rey quickly became I don’t think changed a John because we were
a fan favorite and an inspi- thing. I was going, “Uh, I’m great friends and it was
In this Dec. 3, 2017 photo, actress Daisy Ridley poses for a portrait ration to young girls around not sure about this.” But he comforting working with
to promote her film, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” in Los Angeles. the world. didn’t change a thing be- Harrison (Ford) because
Associated Press The 25-year-old British ac- cause he didn’t need to. he reminds me of my dad.
tress returns to the Star It just took us all a second And with Mark, his daugh-
Wars fold in “The Last Jedi,” to be like “Ok, this is where ter is my age, so there is
out Friday, which picks up the story is heading.” again, and I don’t know
with Rey at the moment AP: At the end of “The maybe it’s an older actor
she finds Luke Skywalker on Force Awakens” Rey has thing of just a comfort. He
that lush cliff. lost her mentor/father fig- makes everyone on set feel
Ridley spoke to The Associ- ure in Han Solo, been sep- really happy and included.
ated Press recently about arated from her friend Finn I think what Mark and Har-
playing Rey and getting and is on this new journey rison and Carrie (Fisher) do
on board with director Rian to find Luke. What is going very well is make everyone
Johnson’s vision. through her head? feel like they’re part of it.
AP: Did you feel like you RIDLEY: I think she doesn’t AP: Has anything surprised
had more of a handle on quite know what is going you about the reception to
this having done it once through her mind. She’s Rey?
before? been sent to do this thing RIDLEY: What I actually
RIDLEY: It’s hard, you would and it goes beyond any- do think is funny is a lot of
think going into the sec- thing she’s known. Every- people are going “Rey’s
ond one you’d be like, ‘Oh thing has been her trying Snoke,” or “Rey’s some-
yeah I’ve got this.’ No. No. to do the right thing and thing else.” Just let her be
it was very much like new her trying to help other her! No, she’s not anyone
scene partner, new story, people and she’s not re- else, she’s just her. No she
new...it was just a new feel- ally stopped for a second. doesn’t have to be like
ing. New director. New Even doing it, I didn’t quite Luke, she doesn’t have to
writer. It was a lot of wrap know. I was trying to play be like Leia, she’s just doing
my head around. And hope and searching for an her own thing. I don’t think
then things settle down as answer. But hilariously the that would have been said
they always do, and you’re first time around I didn’t about any of the male
like this is ok. know where that was going characters.
AP: Rian Johnson not only to go. Anything that Rey is AP: What do you think of
wrote but directed “The trying to catch up on, the J.J. Abrams coming back
Last Jedi” as well — how audience is trying to catch to direct Episode IX?
did that change things for up on with her. Why is she RIDLEY: I literally burst into
you? there? What’s the force? tears. I was like “Oh my
RIDLEY: John (Boyega) and What’s this thing? And the God, oh my God, oh my
I had had a lunch meet- greater sort of questions of God!” I emailed him and
ing with him in August or the universe of good and go “I’m literally crying.”
September when he was evil and why people do And he goes, “Me too!”q
CNN’s Acosta complains York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
begged him for campaign
of White House threat contributions and would
“do anything” for them.
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN’s allowed into a pool spray Acosta’s question went un-
Jim Acosta says he was again.” answered.
warned by the White Sanders did not immedi- “We don’t respond to
House press secretary Sar- ately return a request for threats,” he said on CNN
ah Sanders not to ask a comment on Tuesday. later. “We’re not going to
question during President He was one of a handful be intimidated.”
Donald Trump’s bill signing of reporters allowed into Trump has repeatedly de-
ceremony on Tuesday, fur- the event, which has lim- rided CNN as “fake news,”
ther evidence of sour rela- ited space, as part of a his ire driven over the past
tions between the network “pool” where they act as few days over an error that
and administration. surrogates for the entire CNN made during a story
Acosta said Sanders told press corps. He asked a last week about the inves-
him that if he asked Trump question anyway, about a tigation into collusion with
a question, “she could not Trump tweet in which the Russia during the presiden-
promise that I would be president claimed New tial campaign. q