The problem with TROS was JJ not Daisy! I mean, sure, it was an entertaining escape from reality, but as a sequel to TLJ it was terrible (too much back peddling) and as an ending to the saga it was lazy.
@@lookingforwookiecopilot You must be surely kidding? The issue was that TLJ thought subverting expectations built by Force Awakens was an actual crowd pleaser. That entry wrote itself into a corner so the only way to move forward was to back peddle. TLJ should go down in history as an example of what not to do in the 2nd part of a trilogy.
@@eufrosniad994 In TFA the New Republic government is destroyed and Luke is missing, having just "walked away from it all" after one of his students destroyed his school. TLJ begins with what's left of the "good guys" fleeing, and Rey finding a Luke that still has a "walk away from it all" mentality. So, what expectations from TFA did TLJ subvert?
@@lookingforwookiecopilot I think it’s safe to say that being unable to comprehend any expectations in TFA explains why you enjoyed TLJ. You remind me of a friend who had many of their favourite movies in the IMDb bottom 100 list. In short, you are far from a level of grasping themes and narrative devices that build expectations. So it is natural that everything appears great to you.
Exactly. Writers are the blame for the sequel trilogy becoming a complete failure. If fans are blaming the actors for the roles, then they need to grow up and get their facts straight. The writers are telling the story, not the actors.
agreee 100% THE "TRUE" STAR WARS FANS hated her back in 2017 she even quit social media back then fuck those guys..... she did her job why hated her ??? man child fans "TRUE FANS" star wars fans will attack other star wars fan sad fanbase....
So true. I feel so sorry for Ms Ridley. Imagine the excitement for a young actor being cast in the role of a lifetime only to watch it rapidly become such a weighty yoke around her professional and creative neck. I am amazed she’s returning to the role. If I was her, I’d be running as far away as possible.
I never blame the actors for a story that is being told. They’re there to bring what the writers put on the page onto the screen. But I 100% blame the writers and Disney for allowing them to switch directors for Last Jedi and ruining what was originally planned. Cause Rian ruined it all.
@@bruno4499 It is not worth your time and you are correct. I am old enough to remember, and the complaints were specifically about his delivery - especially in the second film, and MAGNIFIED by the scenes on Naboo. The dialogue did not help, but it was specifically pointed out that it was not just the writing, it was the delivery. After the Revenge came out the perception changed because his performance was widely seen as far superior in that film to the previous. Different viewers attributed it to different skills he had acquired, but mostly agreed that he improved as an actor. Some people are just parrots of things they heard, having not experienced it for themselves. It's like a ten year old trying to tell a college student what highschool is like.
They're often the uplifting parts of bad films or TV episodes because they are playing these characters for quite some time, getting to know them, step into their skin so to speak and thus, even in a bad film or episode, they manage to give their best because they know their characters so well.
She can’t act she’s plays victim and guess what there’s another Rey movie yikes but she’ll complain about death threats after posting herself talking about the force is female state of it
@@gamer-px5cu Eh, don't mind that guy. He's just some incel in his mom's anyway. He's probably wearing a feroda and clothes he hasn't washed in two weeks too. Bet he also studies the blade.
If she was speaking with honesty, she would have said “we all knew we were making garbage”. They essentially said it on the press tour, it was like GOT S8 press tour.
It's honestly a miracle with how bad her writing was, Daisy never seemed unlikable on screen. She is a good actress. The good parts that come from the character of Rey are attributed to Daisy, no one else.
I liked it. Star Wars is like Pizza. Even when it's not amazing, it's still pretty good. Except Revenge of the Sith. That's my least favorite in the entire Saga.
totally agree. but - to be fair - it is the job... especially in star wars... edit: i do though totally agree! many of the so-called fans are being extremely toxic and impolite (hayden, ahmed, rose-actress, child-anaken-actor and so many others; writers and directors). every time i read a toxic opinion i'm thinking "the star wars universe is not YOUR personal property. if you don't like it, don't watch it". like people bashing some sports team or player for not sporting sportily enough... be respectful, people. and say the f thank you to the people who are trying to entertain you.
I will never deny not liking the sequels and thinking the writing was a dumpster fire. What I will NEVER say is that any of the actors were to blame. NONE OF THEM. Daisy, John, Oscar, Rose; Mark, Harrison & Carrie's reunion...they all got shafted by others. So, respect to the actors. Always.
It's always interesting to see how actors are credited with both the successes AND the failures of what is otherwise in the hands of writers, directors, producers, editors, marketers, etc. But that's just how it goes.
Yeah, the downsides of being in the spotlight but I think in this and in a lot of recent cases people understand that. I don't see many people blaming the actors. Most blame the producers. It's just that the actors come face to face with it due to frequent interviews
naah...harrison has been saying yes to a lot of shits lately. i dont think he's the type that cares about his movie legacy, give him enough money and he'll do what he's told.
Yes, I agree. People don't seem to understand what an actor does. And he can sometimes salvage a bad script (like Sir Alec Guiness with the awful dialogue in A New Hope) but oftentimes they are at the mercy of those who write and direct a movie. Why hate on Christensen or Lloyd for the mess the Prequel Trilogy was? Sometimes I wonder about people.
@@gotchewz I have 30+ years of collective experience as an actor, director, writer, sound designer, video editor, fight choreographer, prop-maker, V.O. artist, etc. You are correct; the average human DEFINITELY does NOT know what any of these roles truly mean. They believe that they do... but, no... they do not.
Its not her fault. She’s a great actor and a lovely person. It’s Disney’s fault 100%. I feel bad mostly for John Boyega and how they wasted his character.
Meh. Finn was a terrible character from concept. A former stormtrooper taken from his family and mentally conditioned for loyalty breaking free of the First Order should not, under any circumstances, have been the bumbling comic relief with a crush on the girl. To make that character work, they would have had to hire a totally different actor.
Im confused why it's been announced she's agreed to come back n make a fourth project with star wars. I think that deserves some criticism as that's definitely on her as she n every one else onvo should walk away.
@@Julez3133 yeah but I'm not praying on my gf to cheat on me but if I keep forgiving or going back to her after a third time then that's on me. Disney is like 10 for 10 flip flopping on their actors and making projects the vast majority of fans don't like so must be the $ n therefore fans can judge her on that.
The acting, the casting the writing and the directing...1-3 and 7 thru 9...total disaster. So much so its STILL being talked about how bad they are to this very day.
She is being veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery diplomatic here. Anyone who watched that movie knows it was an editing nightmare. Really hope they give her a story and character that's worth telling in this next one. Just as much for her sake as for ours.
The problem is Kathleen Kennedy, as long as she’s there, Star Wars (outside of a couple exceptions like Andor) will continue to suck. It’s unfortunate because, as you said, Daisy is not the problem.
@@moonlambo5229well that was never the problem with the movie that's just opportunistic bigots jumping into the middle of a cultural phenomenon they flat-out don't understand and trying to pretend they're fans let's let's go ahead and throw that absurdness to one side like the absolute nonsense garbage that it is thank you. The movie failed because the makers did not care about the story. Right-wing conservatism petulant bitching about cultural representation has not been part of why, ever. Just Jack jaw racist opportunists hopping on something and trying to make it all about themselves as per usual
I just saw her new movie on Disney+, "Young Woman & The Sea" and i can tell you, Daisy has always been a great actress, "Young Woman & The Sea" proves what she can do at best when she's given the right material to work with. Feel so bad for the trainwreck that she went through in Star Wars when it's really not her fault at all
Say whatever you like about Disney, but Daisy is a class act. She has tact and candor in equal amounts, which is an extremely rare combination to find in a person.
Coincidently, I rewatched it the other day. I have my issues with those movies. But I never blame her. I actually like Daisy Ridley. Is not her fault. She didn't write, produce and direct those movies. She was just doing the job she was hired for. Just like I have issues with Superman Returns but I don't blame Brandon Routh. I'll give the movie this, at least they tried to please fans. Because of the reception to the previous one. Is like JJ was, I heard you. It was silly Luke throwing the lightsaber away. They tried. And I'm not going to lie, seeing Lando on screen put a smile on my face.
I think most people agree that the problem with the movies is not the cast. The actors did a pretty good job with what they were given. You can see their talent in the other roles they've had since then. The criticism of the movies comes down to the really poor writing.
Yeah, I dont understand why JJ Abrahams SW movies, specially the last, get the same or even more hate then the middle Rian movie one. I mean the Force Awakens was not that great, but you could feel that JJ Abrahams loved the originals. It felt too close to them and as such kind of fan fiction. But at least there was some passion and care. And the baseline for the cool characters (not iconic, but they were good enough) was there. Then he came back for the third and tried to fix all the crap that Rian's ego created. And now he gets all the hate.
@@Daniel__Nobre The biggest mistake this trilogy made was not planning out the whole story in advance, a point that J.J. Abrams conceded in an interview not long ago. If they had, both J.J. and Rian Johnson would've been on the same page and we wouldn't have two films competing for the overall vision of this sequel trilogy.
@@Daniel__Nobre It's because it's so blatantly clear that JJ just doesn't care to make a good story. He bent over backward for the fans that cried about TLJ and fed every single ounce of nostalgia he could think of and made the safest half assed Star Wars movie. There's nothing creative original about it. No depth, no empathy, nothing. Rian actually tried to be creative and wrote something new for Star Wars to take it in a new direction. It felt like he actually tried. There was depth to the characters unlike TROS.
@@Daniel__Nobre It's because the female lead caught the bad side of the political zeigeist and many fans are contrary to be edgy or to seem more intelligent. Having Rian's movie as a preference is an actual bad opinion most of the time.
@@raccoons_stole_my_account Even just bad mouthing a project you were involved in is a red flag and might harm her chances of getting work in future. No wonder she's being careful.
Yes! Thank you Daisy. The kiss was definitely earned and the chemistry with Adam was always fantastic! Kylo/Ben and Rey were always the best part of the sequel trilogy
Daisy was charming and likeable as hell in those movies, she did her absolute best with sub-par material. Feel so bad for her and the rest of the cast, being thrown to the wolves like that.
“It’s still upsetting because you don’t want people to feel like you’ve not served a thing that they are a fan of.” Leave it to a RUclips journalist to use a clickbait title insinuating that Daisy said something else.
This is fascinating. As far as I’m aware, this is the first time someone involved in those films has acknowledged how divisive they were. I’m very surprised she was willing to talk about that at all, really. Especially given she’s going back into the ring.
JJ has commented on it as well. He actually admitted how bad TFA was and how it was a mistake to make to intentionally make it derivative. He said something to the likes of "if you like the force awakens, you're crazy."
@conorfurlong Daisy Ridley has acknowledged that years ago when she said fan criticism was fair (don't remember if she said that after episode 8 or 9).
I have seen that movie 4 times now and I can't remember a frame of it. I have no idea what happens in Rise of Skywalker. I remember waking up and seeing the Emperor and being very confused.
She has the most adorable smile on the planet. I think she did great. She is the actor, not the writer. That being said, she was actually my favorite in that trilogy.
I have posted this before but I think that it fits here too. However people feel about the sequels, absolutely none of it should be on Daisy Ridley. I can’t wait for her to return just like I couldn’t wait for Hayden Christensen and Ahmed Best to return!
@@Mallen151I like bad movies too! It’s okay to like bad movies, nothing wrong with it. The sequels were objectively bad and did damage to the brand (financial doesn’t lie) but it’s okay to like bad things.
@@thehikingcucumber3410 I hate the Rise of Skywalker so much, but what I hate more is when people say any piece of art is "objectively bad." It just seems so antithetical to what enjoying art should be about. Seems so inhuman to like be running a checklist in your brain of what constitutes good and bad instead of just letting the work wash over you and letting your emotions happen with the work. In my opinion, art is to be experienced emotionally, not logically. If I ask somebody their favorite movies and they rattle off the standard IMDB top 100 or the Letterboxd top 200 stuff, I could not care less about what that person has to say about art. Not to say that stuff is bad, I love most the movies on there, but at the end of the day I've watched Chinatown maybe 3 times. I've watched Billy Madison maybe 100. If I see a guy going up to bat for something insane like Tank Girl or like the Resident Evil movies or something, I'm "Oh I'm dealing with a real fucking movie fan here."
She's such a hugely talented actress. She was young to the industry and thrust into the big Hollywood machine with Star Wars where she had little to zero control over how they were made. She deserved better.
Daisy did an outstanding job! She was genuinely convincing as a Jedi leading lady. She did her job perfectly. As we all know, the Directors/ writers were the ones that screwed it up.
My wife had never seen Star Wars and she really enjoyed the newest trilogy with Rey since she didn’t have any preconceived notions of what it should or shouldn’t be. Sure. I had my fair share of complaints but I had a lot of fun watching them with her. Daisy did a great job.
I felt similarly watching the sequels with my niece and nephews. They weren't perfect, and we had fun as a family. And my niece had a female lead to look up to.
RJ certainly deserves every criticism thrown his way, if I ever hear the term "subvert expectations" again, it will be too soon. But to be fair, this is almost ENTIRELY JJs mess. He was the one that couldn't think of anything better than a poor copy of ANH. He was the one that thought of the idea to excise Luke from TFA and ditch him into self-exile. He was the one that thought it was a great idea not to reunite Luke, Leia, and Han. He was the one that couldn't write himself out of the mystery box he put trapped himself in Rise of Skywalker. The PT had its dialogue problems, but it at least gave us an original story that Lucas clearly planned out, but the ST was doomed the moment JJ was hired.
It's just insane to me that Disney could not help themselves to start milking this franchise and had the first movie announced before they even knew what they wanted for the trilogy. If they had planned things out, sure little changes could be made, but then like GL's trilogies they would at least feel like they made sense granted we were privy to some of the BTS issues in real time, but it was so easy to be taken out of the story with the retcon mess it became
I like Daisy as a person and as an actress. The disasterpiece that was the sequel trilogy was definitely not her fault imo. The only one shafted worse than her is John Boyega lol
The crazy thing about Disney Star Wars and Lucas Star Wars is how all the actors viewed the movies and their performances and Star Wars as a whole. Ewan loved his role and embraced it and couldn't wait to get back. He's more than excited to come back as Obi Wan. Hayden had a weird period where people hated him but now love him, however, he always loved playing Anakin and wanted to do it again. Natalie, I wouldn't say "loved" her role as Padme but she was extremely well received and she would also love to play her role again. Mark Hamill, is, well, Mark Hamill and loves everything about it. He IS Star Wars. The sequel cast...they're all basically done. They don't appear to love their roles or embrace their characters and they seem to not like the movies and where it put them as a whole. When Episode 7 came out, they were still pretty hyped, even after 8 came out. Once TRoS got its backlash, they all kinda just moved on and want nothing to do with Star Wars or their characters, which is very different from everyone who was in the Lucas era. Sure, some might have different feelings than what I've covered but for the most part, they're done and they don't care. Daisy doesn't seem hyped to ever come back. Adam Driver doesn't exactly want to come back.
Well, all the characters in the prequels you mentioned, and the ones you mentioned from the OG trilogy were well written, so ofc they embrace their roles etc. If you were someone who gets cast to play a character in SW and you get all excited but the writers ruin it, you would be dissapointed aswell and probably wouldn't really want to come back or be hyped about it if you do
It's the same team, basically, at Lucasfilm that brought you the Disney Trilogy abomination, so it is really doubtful. They did all the actors a disservice, especially the OG cast and Daisy being the star. They damaged the OG's and made her have pretty much zero character arc. Rey was a BORING character. She was super perfect in practically every way from the get-go. That's not an interesting person. They need to be able to overcome adversities and rise to the occasion. They can't go from awesome to super awesome. Yuck.
@@dan_hitchman007 I don’t think she was super perfect. I think male viewers just wanted to see her suck because they didn’t look at her and buy her as a worthy protagonist. Rey was flawed because she was stubborn, impatient, unpolished, and on occasion illogical - all of which she shared with Luke by the way. I’m over the tired Mary Sue complaint because it doesn’t apply for male protagonists: you expect the male action hero to be a badass and look cool doing stunts and trick shots and kicking ass and to know what he’s doing. But for the record, I had qualms with how they handled the original characters too. Rey was boring because they didn’t DEVELOP her. They barely changed her look. They left her isolated with her parentage up in the air until panicking about it and giving it the dumbest explanation ever. They didn’t give her a personal goal other than to turn Kylo Ren; her other goal of ending the First Order was a shared goal with the entire rebellion. We can’t even say that her personal goal was to find her parents because she believed she was supposed to wait on Jakku for them to return and she had zero clues as to why they left or where to, so they shot her in the foot by making her innermost desire a totally passive point.
@@TheBrandiElizabeth You saw a different set of films than I from your perspective. It also has nothing to do with the character being female. There were great films with female protagonists that I grew up with. In comparison, Rey was a weakly written character with very little growth. They even had to come up with a last minute excuse as to why she was so amazing so early... being a Palpatine and that SURPRISE!! he's still alive. That little come out of nowhere twist completely ruined Vader's redemption in Jedi. They messed up Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, Vader, Chewie, Yoda, the droids... they just couldn't leave well enough alone. No wonder Mark Hamill and John Boyega were pissed.
@@dan_hitchman007 I don't think I did. I think you just agreed with me. And I stand by what I said about Rey even if you swear it doesn't apply to you specifically.
Same as it ever was. I think “fans” of SW 77 (before it was renamed A New Hope) were originally pissed about both ESB and RofJ. Only time made them lighten up, same goes for the Prequels, they were so hated in their time they gave death threats to its actors and keep in mind this was both early Internet days and pre-YT. It got to the point of People v George Lucas and his indifference towards the future of the series. More and more, the SW brand feels like a monkey’s paw, cursing everyone involved. I’m definitely looking forward to Rey’s comeback adventure. That said, SW fan sites and videos, run as fast as you can away from them. They’re all toxic.
@@GeneralBulldog54 Totally agree. As an 80s kid (meaning 70s-born) I remember how much grief ROTJ got. Some fans said the Ewoks “ruined” Star Wars. There was blowback about the sister revelation. And people who still hated that Han “won” the love triangle. And then there was division about the EU. It “ruined” the OT. And the prequels got so much hate (including for “ruining” the EU) and the OT was lionized as superior. Fans called for George’s head! And then, of course, Disney “ruined” Star Wars. And fans said only George knew Star Wars and the prequels were lionized. The cycle just keeps going! …which is why the ability of Rogue One to have pleased the majority of fans from all eras is still remarkable to me. Sure, the Kyle Katarn fans are still shook but it ranks pretty high on most people’s lists!
This is such a lame attempt to deflect valid criticism. I see this quoted so often when the sequel trilogy is talked about. God forbid they don't get down on their knees and kiss the trilogies ass. No one likes a sycophant.
@@trevorthornley8835 Jesus Christ with a didgeridoo and a BB gun, riding a plaid-skinned T-Rex through downtown 1955 Los Angeles, if y’all applied the same standard of writing to the whole brother-kissing, technologically-stagnant, aerodynamically-improbable, impossibly-cozy vast galaxy of Star Wars as you do to the sequels, you’d find enormous problems with the entire franchise. Yet, in one breath, you forgive the OT and PT but pillory the ST. Star Wars ain’t War and Peace. Unclench and let the kids who grew up with the ST love it as much as whichever trilogy you loved as a kid.
The actors need to understand that most fans aren't upset at them at all, nor do they blame them for sequel trilogy. It's directed at the writers, directors and executives at Disney.
She's a great actor and I will forever have a fanboy crush on her but she restored Star Wars magic. You can see how well she gelled with Harrison and Mark. So glad she's coming back. They must be paying her a fortune but it will be well deserved.
I just feel sorry for Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver in particular as they're clearly very capable actors but all the people who acted in the new non canon Star Wars sequel trilogy got shafted with the worst possible story and script.
I LOVED Daisy Ridley as Rey. Rey is my favorite Jedi by far! So powerful yet so compassionate and the strength to come from being alone and having nothing to rise up and defeat a powerful enemy for the benefit of everyone. She also had the strength to battle and win against her own doubts and demons.
I don't think anyone is or should be upset with her. She didn't write those awful scripts or completely change the direction of the narrative 3 times within the span of 3 movies. She showed up and did her job to the best of her ability and it's a shame that her character and talent were wasted on such terrible writing.
“This interview was really insightful. It’s tough to hear how upsetting the response to The Rise of Skywalker was for Daisy Ridley. Her dedication to the role of Rey and the Star Wars universe is evident, and it’s a reminder of the human side of these big franchises. Thanks for sharing this, Josh Horowitz! 🌟”
OMG, she's such a pretty, gorgeous, beautiful, talented, breathtaking, & dedicated actress. I'm honored & glad to see her star in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy as Rey Skywalker. My only regret is that the storyline plot could have been much greater & awesome than what we got. And I don't blame her for ruining the sequel trilogy; it wasn't her fault. She did her best to accommodate the sequel trilogy's filming direction & adapt to the changing storyline plot material that was given to her. Daisy Ridley as Rey Skywalker will truly be the bad###, legendary Jedi character forever immortalized in the Star Wars universe. I can't wait to see in anymore future Star Wars projects. May The Force Be With You Always, Rey. And keep up the great work, Daisy; I'm rooting for you always! 😘😍🥰🌹🌹🌹♥️♥️♥️✌️✌️✌️
I never stopped liking her specifically. I like her as an actress, and I hated the "character" they made her play. The only reason I don't want a Rey movie is because I know there is no one under the employ of Disney that will do this character any justice.
can you really blame them? she produced and executive produced some of great movies like jurassic park, back to the future and so on, so with her resume, do you really think she would mess up star wars like that?
Kathleen Kennedy also produced ET.....She was a great producer if only they separate starwars division from Lucas film like what Disney had done to marvel.
What you have to remember is that, even if something is bad, the people involved in making it can still have had a good time making it. There's a _massive_ difference between being a person working on and creating a thing, and being the person seeing the end result. Two completely different experiences and perspectives. Daisy is allowed to be passionate about what she did and the people she worked with, even if we can look back now and go 'yeah that was pretty mid'.
she didn't deserve all the fan hate with episode IX or those "fans" talking about the mary sue thing all the time. Daisy was a newcomer, she debuted with Star Wars and played a beautiful role as a heroine for young girls to be inspired by. It's a shame that the sequel trilogy was so poorly handled, each film had a different idea so that in episode VIII Rey would be anyone and in episode IX she is Palpatine's granddaughter. That kiss was awful, yes, but the script is not her fault. I'm happy that she will return to the franchise!
She didn't get much fan hate to be fair, her underwritten and misdirected character did. Most people felt sorry for Daisy having to go along with this brutal vandalization of a beloved IP by Rian Johnson and then by JJ's absolute middle finger of a final instalment.
@noyoo123 fans gave her a lot of hate too. I'm guessing you didn't see it since you weren't doing it, but there was a ton of it. Rian did a much better job than JJ, and Rian actually made one of the most "star warsy" Star Wars movie that ever "star wared". It's just Rian packed too much in and relied on people reading the book, which most didn't
@@Dynnen YES! Ep VIII is one of my favorites movies from the franchise, Rian wasn't afraid to be bold and bring something new to the saga since, let's face it, The Force Awakens played a lot on safety and nostalgia. The idea of Kylo killing Snoke and being the main villain and Rey being special but being a nobody, without a big related family, is how they should have followed it but then JJ came and changed everything in IX...
I love Daisy Ridley. She seems like such a genuinely beautiful person. I feel so sorry for her though. The selfishness of K.K., R.J. and J.J. and their stupid agenda have wasted her talent…and K.K. is about to waste it again. If they in fact, make this movie, it will be the biggest box office bomb in movie history. Much, much worse than what happened to Solo. I really wish that Daisy wouldn’t do this to herself, but I understand she may have already been under contract, where Lucasfilm has the right to exercise their option for more films. Poor Daisy, I really hope this doesn’t harm her mentally and emotionally.😢
Despite the bad writing and the gutting of Star Wars...and the fact that Daisy knows that fans don't want this new Star Wars she has 12 million reasons to do the movie regardless. Maybe the writing is good enough so that Daisy can do enough with the character that the end product is ok-ish ( I doubt it but who knows - the same producers not only made trash movies like ep 8 and 9 but also Rogue One so there's always the possibility of a miracle).
idk if selfish is the right word, at least with rian, incompetence fits better, he genuinely thought that tlj was a masterpiece, kk was definitely selfish tho, and jj clearly wasn’t even trying with ros 😂
The biggest problem with the Disney Trilogy was it wasn’t planned. They had no overall theme, no through story, no arc, no vision. The original trilogy worked because the 3 main characters all had arcs that covered the 3 movies and each excelled in different areas so they didn’t step into each others zone - Luke was the young dreamer who became a wizard, Han was the selfish rogue who became selfless and fell in love and Leia was the leader who fell in love - it’s why those films are so believed, the characters were defined and memorable, helped by a genuine chemistry between the actors. The Disney trilogy had paper thin characters who did nothing and showed no signs of growth or chemistry over the 3 films.
I wonder if there's some kind of weird NDA she had to sign where she couldn't say anything bad (honest) about TROS, because her eyes are glued to the ceiling in this clip as she tries to think of things that aren't actively critical
She actualky said it herself. TLJ and TROS were divisive, because Disney has failed to create a cohesive story that spans 3 movies. Ryan's unchallenged narcissism in creating TLJ was the downfall of the series. Daisy is a genuinly nice person and noone hated her as an actress, she just happened to play the lead in a terribly misguided project by Disney.
The Rise of Skywalker was supposed to be about the Skywalker family. What even was the point of Anakin and the prophecy? Big money screws up everything
They literally didn't now who is Rey while filming ep9, that's how writers took seriously sequel trilogy, they made s*it up as they went, and we saw how final product turned out...
I just don't understand. How could such a monumental franchise be treated so half-hazardly? We're talking billions.. you can afford to pay for talent.. actual, reliable, resourceful talent... and this is how it was treated? Something doesn't add up.
A part of me died when I watched The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. The Force Awakens was passable I thought it was good, even though it was a rehash of A New Hope and played it safe, and we never got the original cast in a scene together which was one of the biggest missed opportunities.
I was done after TFA tbh. That derailed the whole franchise and where it could go and what it all meant if you really analyse it. TLJ actually was 50/50 hit and miss for me. Like literally 50/50 hated one thing loved the next but was interested for where 1 or 2 parts of the story was going, I knew though it was never going to be good and had no faith especially when JJ was brought back and still have not been able to make it through the whole film and nor do I want to which is insane because I’ve literally seen every bit of visual media ever released under the Star Wars brand and have had read all the canon books and comics and a decent chunk of legends. I don’t know how they did it to make me disinterested in a product so much
@@protector_of_the_realmsI remember yelling NO at my point when they announced JJ was back on 9. Thinking correctly it wad huge mistake. Most of what happens in 7 was a waste of time, because it had already been told better in 4, and because it didn't progress the story at all.
The issue was the writing and the way Female Characters are treated. Women don't train they are born with talent or they have none in movies. It's kind of like the Conan Series, he was a slave who worked as a mule, and became strong. Luke Trained with Yoda. Ray was just born beautiful and powerful. No training needed and she is better than Kylo? They tried to address this in the 3rd movie but it's just something an audience notices. We want to see the earning of skills, the pain that makes a character great. Not emotional pain but the pain of striving for something. Without seeing that it's hard to believe in a hero. I think that's one reason so many superhero movies don't really make you feel anything. You get bit by a spider and your powerful, its a cop out for the work needed on a character. The Dark Knight shows the pain and training of Bruce. Even the First Wonder Woman showd Gal's character being pushed to her limit. That movie made you feel like the Amazons were great warriors, and made you root for them. Or a Superman character who does not want to be Superman he just wants to be Clark, the world just wont let him do that. The Relationship between Kylo and Ray never made sense... Maybe I don't get the "Bad Boy" thing but after she watches him kill his father, her father figure. Then try to kill his mother, her mother figure. She falls for him while he is attempting to kill her mentor Luke? Falling for the bad guy makes a female character look weak to male audiences. I wanted to see her fall for Finn the guy who risked it all to leave the First Order. To complete a better redemption story for Finn. Finn gets to kill his tormenter Phasma. Can you imagine if they wanted us to believe Finn would kiss Phasma? No because no guy would do that. But they think its acceptable to Ray to fall for Kylo, or to fix him? Yuck... Her character (Ray) was good and she was great, but for the older fans seeing Luke as a failure to his family, and Ray was a hard blow. Movies just can't recover from that. Daisy Ridley is just a victim of bad Disney Writers. If Ray is rebooted it would be great to see her as an instructor to make fun of the bad writing of the past. Show her training the new actors, or working hard on her character like we saw in her third movie.
She doesn't deserve an ounce of hate for those movies. It's all in the writing. She seems like a genuinely nice person who was excited to be a part of Star Wars.
It's not her fault that the last coherent, complete SW movie came out in 1983 and the rest have been built on a mountain of hubris. From Lucas thinking he didn't need help with the dialogue even with his two main actors complaining about the dumb sentences they were being given, to Rian Johnson thinking he didn't need to understand what made a series popular before he "subverted" it, to a studio head who never got past her gender studies at college. The result? Forty-one years of missed opportunities and mediocre mud.
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The problem with TROS was JJ not Daisy! I mean, sure, it was an entertaining escape from reality, but as a sequel to TLJ it was terrible (too much back peddling) and as an ending to the saga it was lazy.
@@lookingforwookiecopilot You must be surely kidding? The issue was that TLJ thought subverting expectations built by Force Awakens was an actual crowd pleaser. That entry wrote itself into a corner so the only way to move forward was to back peddle. TLJ should go down in history as an example of what not to do in the 2nd part of a trilogy.
I know I'm in the minority.......but I LOVED TROS! TLJ, on the other hand, gets worse each time I watch it 😔
@@eufrosniad994 In TFA the New Republic government is destroyed and Luke is missing, having just "walked away from it all" after one of his students destroyed his school. TLJ begins with what's left of the "good guys" fleeing, and Rey finding a Luke that still has a "walk away from it all" mentality.
So, what expectations from TFA did TLJ subvert?
@@lookingforwookiecopilot I think it’s safe to say that being unable to comprehend any expectations in TFA explains why you enjoyed TLJ. You remind me of a friend who had many of their favourite movies in the IMDb bottom 100 list. In short, you are far from a level of grasping themes and narrative devices that build expectations. So it is natural that everything appears great to you.
She did the best possible job she could with the material given. The story is not her fault.
Exactly. Writers are the blame for the sequel trilogy becoming a complete failure. If fans are blaming the actors for the roles, then they need to grow up and get their facts straight. The writers are telling the story, not the actors.
agreee 100%
THE "TRUE" STAR WARS FANS hated her back in 2017 she even quit social media back then fuck those guys..... she did her job why hated her ??? man child fans "TRUE FANS" star wars fans will attack other star wars fan sad fanbase....
So true. I feel so sorry for Ms Ridley. Imagine the excitement for a young actor being cast in the role of a lifetime only to watch it rapidly become such a weighty yoke around her professional and creative neck. I am amazed she’s returning to the role. If I was her, I’d be running as far away as possible.
Yeah Daisy did fine, just the writing was horrible.
I never blame the actors for a story that is being told. They’re there to bring what the writers put on the page onto the screen. But I 100% blame the writers and Disney for allowing them to switch directors for Last Jedi and ruining what was originally planned. Cause Rian ruined it all.
I love how everyone learned from Hayden and isn’t blaming her
You’d be surprised how many people haven’t learned this lesson.
Well Hayden was a different thing. It wasn't the writing that people were hating on,it was the acting on his part.
@@bruno4499No it was the awful, awful writing.
@@criert135 Is that why the movies were a success praised by the majority? Because the writing was awful?
@@bruno4499 It is not worth your time and you are correct. I am old enough to remember, and the complaints were specifically about his delivery - especially in the second film, and MAGNIFIED by the scenes on Naboo. The dialogue did not help, but it was specifically pointed out that it was not just the writing, it was the delivery.
After the Revenge came out the perception changed because his performance was widely seen as far superior in that film to the previous. Different viewers attributed it to different skills he had acquired, but mostly agreed that he improved as an actor.
Some people are just parrots of things they heard, having not experienced it for themselves. It's like a ten year old trying to tell a college student what highschool is like.
I never held the actors for being responsible for it I think they did the best they could with what they had
They're often the uplifting parts of bad films or TV episodes because they are playing these characters for quite some time, getting to know them, step into their skin so to speak and thus, even in a bad film or episode, they manage to give their best because they know their characters so well.
Definitely. Even Rose's actress did a fine job with the turd of a character she was given to play.
They should have turned down the role. They will get no forgiveness from me.
She can’t act she’s plays victim and guess what there’s another Rey movie yikes but she’ll complain about death threats after posting herself talking about the force is female state of it
@@gamer-px5cu Eh, don't mind that guy. He's just some incel in his mom's anyway. He's probably wearing a feroda and clothes he hasn't washed in two weeks too. Bet he also studies the blade.
My God, an interview with an actor who speaks honestly, openly, and gives their personal perspective. Actually interesting and insightful. Love it.
If she was speaking with honesty, she would have said “we all knew we were making garbage”. They essentially said it on the press tour, it was like GOT S8 press tour.
@@platexproductions If that were really true, she wouldn't have gotten sad that it was ending.
Edit: Or come back for more.
She’s a gem, no ego - no lies, no delusions.
WYSIWYG with her.
It's honestly a miracle with how bad her writing was, Daisy never seemed unlikable on screen. She is a good actress. The good parts that come from the character of Rey are attributed to Daisy, no one else.
this is true . At no point was she unlikeable which is quite a feat if you think about it.
Didn't think her writing was that bad. It wasn't like she was Padme or Anakin.
When I saw TFA she seemed so happy to be there. And she was the only one who seemed happy to be in it. Character not great, but she carried it.
I agree, she's a good actress and the character was likable. I wish the writing was better.
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You can tell she’s being as nice as she can be.. There’s a lot more that she wants to say but can’t.
agree, but yeah, I understand she can't really bash the writing or the movie or the direction since she's been cast again
Yeah she was going into this buffer zone of "let me think how honest I can be with an answer here"
@@jackbrodie7147 maybe she liked to film them but there is not ONE person that like Star Wars 9
I liked it. Star Wars is like Pizza. Even when it's not amazing, it's still pretty good. Except Revenge of the Sith. That's my least favorite in the entire Saga.
@@EthnHayabusa no you didn't
I can’t imagine being a part of something that a billion strangers have opinions on. It must be exhausting.
totally agree. but - to be fair - it is the job... especially in star wars...
edit: i do though totally agree! many of the so-called fans are being extremely toxic and impolite (hayden, ahmed, rose-actress, child-anaken-actor and so many others; writers and directors). every time i read a toxic opinion i'm thinking "the star wars universe is not YOUR personal property. if you don't like it, don't watch it". like people bashing some sports team or player for not sporting sportily enough... be respectful, people. and say the f thank you to the people who are trying to entertain you.
@@alextaws6657agreed, unless you're a director or geriatric studio head like Kathleen
Didn't bother anyone involved in making Dune!
I feel so bad for Daisy. It is so clear on how much she enjoyed doing Star Wars.
The problem was NEVER Daisy Ridley. The criticism was the story, the writing, the character of Rey, the trashing of historic characters.
She is an actor. She arrived at her job and ACTED. Blame the people whose sole job was to make the story good
I will never deny not liking the sequels and thinking the writing was a dumpster fire. What I will NEVER say is that any of the actors were to blame. NONE OF THEM.
Daisy, John, Oscar, Rose; Mark, Harrison & Carrie's reunion...they all got shafted by others.
So, respect to the actors. Always.
Adam? Probably my single favorite aspect of the sequel trilogy.
Totally agree, actors DEFINITELY delivered as best as they could.
They accepted the role. They're just as much to blame.
@@JonO387 Tht makes no sense 😭😭
The sequels were at least an improvement on the prequels, which have no redeeming features (esp. the fans).
It's always interesting to see how actors are credited with both the successes AND the failures of what is otherwise in the hands of writers, directors, producers, editors, marketers, etc. But that's just how it goes.
Yeah, the downsides of being in the spotlight but I think in this and in a lot of recent cases people understand that. I don't see many people blaming the actors. Most blame the producers. It's just that the actors come face to face with it due to frequent interviews
Well someone like Harrison Ford could have just said fuck you I am a millionaire and I am not doing it.
naah...harrison has been saying yes to a lot of shits lately. i dont think he's the type that cares about his movie legacy, give him enough money and he'll do what he's told.
Yes, I agree. People don't seem to understand what an actor does. And he can sometimes salvage a bad script (like Sir Alec Guiness with the awful dialogue in A New Hope) but oftentimes they are at the mercy of those who write and direct a movie. Why hate on Christensen or Lloyd for the mess the Prequel Trilogy was? Sometimes I wonder about people.
@@gotchewz I have 30+ years of collective experience as an actor, director, writer, sound designer, video editor, fight choreographer, prop-maker, V.O. artist, etc. You are correct; the average human DEFINITELY does NOT know what any of these roles truly mean. They believe that they do... but, no... they do not.
Its not her fault. She’s a great actor and a lovely person. It’s Disney’s fault 100%. I feel bad mostly for John Boyega and how they wasted his character.
For real
Meh. Finn was a terrible character from concept. A former stormtrooper taken from his family and mentally conditioned for loyalty breaking free of the First Order should not, under any circumstances, have been the bumbling comic relief with a crush on the girl.
To make that character work, they would have had to hire a totally different actor.
Im confused why it's been announced she's agreed to come back n make a fourth project with star wars. I think that deserves some criticism as that's definitely on her as she n every one else onvo should walk away.
@@tihseht472 cause she prob wants to do the best job she can, i mean if i were her i wouldnt be praying on star wars downfall
@@Julez3133 yeah but I'm not praying on my gf to cheat on me but if I keep forgiving or going back to her after a third time then that's on me.
Disney is like 10 for 10 flip flopping on their actors and making projects the vast majority of fans don't like so must be the $ n therefore fans can judge her on that.
The problem was never the acting, it was the story, and the actors deserved a better story to be a part of.
The acting, the casting the writing and the directing...1-3 and 7 thru 9...total disaster. So much so its STILL being talked about how bad they are to this very day.
@@markherring3513No. They haven't gone away(regardless of opinions) and it just kills people like you.
@@fredcdobbs8128 Kills me? Nah...disgusted by it? Pretty much...kinda like how Biden is destroying this country...im disgusted by it.
She should be a diplomat.
Im up with giving her an actual chance. She could be a senator or young padme. Maybe even try to make her meetra surik.
well she is an actor lol, not far off
@@subject122 on point
She is being veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery diplomatic here. Anyone who watched that movie knows it was an editing nightmare. Really hope they give her a story and character that's worth telling in this next one. Just as much for her sake as for ours.
The problem is Kathleen Kennedy, as long as she’s there, Star Wars (outside of a couple exceptions like Andor) will continue to suck. It’s unfortunate because, as you said, Daisy is not the problem.
Nah Rey should never come back. Daisy should be successful in other movies
@@eliminator1472 She isn't, that's why she came back.
@@bencarlson4300 true, that is the problem
Star wars is dead
Imagine being cast as the lead in the 3 most anticipated movies ever and have it turn out this way.
She pushed the feminism and toxic fans thing hard and is now trying to back track. No sympathy.
@@moonlambo5229well that was never the problem with the movie that's just opportunistic bigots jumping into the middle of a cultural phenomenon they flat-out don't understand and trying to pretend they're fans let's let's go ahead and throw that absurdness to one side like the absolute nonsense garbage that it is thank you.
The movie failed because the makers did not care about the story. Right-wing conservatism petulant bitching about cultural representation has not been part of why, ever. Just Jack jaw racist opportunists hopping on something and trying to make it all about themselves as per usual
@@moonlambo5229if Twitter was a person
@@moonlambo5229Disney did not her.
@@moonlambo5229 when has Daisy Ridley ever pushed feminism? all she ever did was her job, acting in those shitty movies, and she did a good job.
I just saw her new movie on Disney+, "Young Woman & The Sea" and i can tell you, Daisy has always been a great actress, "Young Woman & The Sea" proves what she can do at best when she's given the right material to work with. Feel so bad for the trainwreck that she went through in Star Wars when it's really not her fault at all
As much as I didnt like the sequel films, seeing little kids dressed as Rey and Kylo Ren at the Disney parks really and truly warms my heart.
Yeah. I mean if people also like subpar sequels for whatever reason it's their taste. Something even the fandoms want to forget for the sake of it
Say whatever you like about Disney, but Daisy is a class act. She has tact and candor in equal amounts, which is an extremely rare combination to find in a person.
You realize she pretends for a job
@@PattyOflan88, she doesn't write scripts for a job.
@@sm5574 of course. I'm speaking of OP's opinion on her in this interview
@@PattyOflan88, and I think a big part of the OP's opinion is her word choice.
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Coincidently, I rewatched it the other day. I have my issues with those movies. But I never blame her. I actually like Daisy Ridley. Is not her fault. She didn't write, produce and direct those movies. She was just doing the job she was hired for. Just like I have issues with Superman Returns but I don't blame Brandon Routh. I'll give the movie this, at least they tried to please fans. Because of the reception to the previous one. Is like JJ was, I heard you. It was silly Luke throwing the lightsaber away. They tried. And I'm not going to lie, seeing Lando on screen put a smile on my face.
I think most people agree that the problem with the movies is not the cast. The actors did a pretty good job with what they were given. You can see their talent in the other roles they've had since then. The criticism of the movies comes down to the really poor writing.
Yeah, I dont understand why JJ Abrahams SW movies, specially the last, get the same or even more hate then the middle Rian movie one. I mean the Force Awakens was not that great, but you could feel that JJ Abrahams loved the originals. It felt too close to them and as such kind of fan fiction. But at least there was some passion and care. And the baseline for the cool characters (not iconic, but they were good enough) was there. Then he came back for the third and tried to fix all the crap that Rian's ego created. And now he gets all the hate.
@@Daniel__Nobre The biggest mistake this trilogy made was not planning out the whole story in advance, a point that J.J. Abrams conceded in an interview not long ago. If they had, both J.J. and Rian Johnson would've been on the same page and we wouldn't have two films competing for the overall vision of this sequel trilogy.
@@Daniel__Nobre It's because it's so blatantly clear that JJ just doesn't care to make a good story. He bent over backward for the fans that cried about TLJ and fed every single ounce of nostalgia he could think of and made the safest half assed Star Wars movie. There's nothing creative original about it. No depth, no empathy, nothing. Rian actually tried to be creative and wrote something new for Star Wars to take it in a new direction. It felt like he actually tried. There was depth to the characters unlike TROS.
@@Daniel__Nobre It's because the female lead caught the bad side of the political zeigeist and many fans are contrary to be edgy or to seem more intelligent. Having Rian's movie as a preference is an actual bad opinion most of the time.
0:27 how much can I say without getting fired?
from what, the movies are done
@@raccoons_stole_my_account so you haven’t heard the news then. . .
@@raccoons_stole_my_account Even just bad mouthing a project you were involved in is a red flag and might harm her chances of getting work in future. No wonder she's being careful.
@@raccoons_stole_my_accountNo actor dares to bad mouth Disney
@@raccoons_stole_my_accountDaisy’s actually coming back for a new SW film, so she definitely had to watch her words.
Yes! Thank you Daisy. The kiss was definitely earned and the chemistry with Adam was always fantastic! Kylo/Ben and Rey were always the best part of the sequel trilogy
Daisy was charming and likeable as hell in those movies, she did her absolute best with sub-par material. Feel so bad for her and the rest of the cast, being thrown to the wolves like that.
“It’s still upsetting because you don’t want people to feel like you’ve not served a thing that they are a fan of.”
Leave it to a RUclips journalist to use a clickbait title insinuating that Daisy said something else.
Leave it to a disingenuous RUclips commentator to pretend the title was a complete lie 🤡
This is fascinating. As far as I’m aware, this is the first time someone involved in those films has acknowledged how divisive they were.
I’m very surprised she was willing to talk about that at all, really. Especially given she’s going back into the ring.
JJ has commented on it as well. He actually admitted how bad TFA was and how it was a mistake to make to intentionally make it derivative. He said something to the likes of "if you like the force awakens, you're crazy."
@conorfurlong Daisy Ridley has acknowledged that years ago when she said fan criticism was fair (don't remember if she said that after episode 8 or 9).
@@VonJay The Force Awakens is probably the best of the three disastrous sequel films...
@@everpuremusic which doesnt say much considering its an entire rip off of a new hope lol
@@everpuremusicit's the worst in my opinion, lack of originality, sequels really start with 8 and 9 story wise.
She’s a literal skywalker during this I love how she’s daising at the ceiling
I have seen that movie 4 times now and I can't remember a frame of it. I have no idea what happens in Rise of Skywalker. I remember waking up and seeing the Emperor and being very confused.
She has the most adorable smile on the planet. I think she did great. She is the actor, not the writer. That being said, she was actually my favorite in that trilogy.
Her smile is bigger than a Sand Dunes mouth
@@samhain81what a nasty piece of work you are
I have posted this before but I think that it fits here too. However people feel about the sequels, absolutely none of it should be on Daisy Ridley. I can’t wait for her to return just like I couldn’t wait for Hayden Christensen and Ahmed Best to return!
agreed, i hate the sequel trilogy but i loved Daisy Ridley's performance as Rey and i'm hopeful the writing will improve in her new movie
@@vanlllasky Personally, I really like the sequel trilogy. I can see why it doesn’t work for people though!
@@Mallen151I like bad movies too! It’s okay to like bad movies, nothing wrong with it. The sequels were objectively bad and did damage to the brand (financial doesn’t lie) but it’s okay to like bad things.
@@thehikingcucumber3410 agree 100%. You can enjoy bad movies like attack of the clones or phantom menace as long as you know they aren't good movies.
@@thehikingcucumber3410 I hate the Rise of Skywalker so much, but what I hate more is when people say any piece of art is "objectively bad." It just seems so antithetical to what enjoying art should be about. Seems so inhuman to like be running a checklist in your brain of what constitutes good and bad instead of just letting the work wash over you and letting your emotions happen with the work. In my opinion, art is to be experienced emotionally, not logically. If I ask somebody their favorite movies and they rattle off the standard IMDB top 100 or the Letterboxd top 200 stuff, I could not care less about what that person has to say about art. Not to say that stuff is bad, I love most the movies on there, but at the end of the day I've watched Chinatown maybe 3 times. I've watched Billy Madison maybe 100. If I see a guy going up to bat for something insane like Tank Girl or like the Resident Evil movies or something, I'm "Oh I'm dealing with a real fucking movie fan here."
She's such a hugely talented actress. She was young to the industry and thrust into the big Hollywood machine with Star Wars where she had little to zero control over how they were made. She deserved better.
Daisy did an outstanding job! She was genuinely convincing as a Jedi leading lady. She did her job perfectly. As we all know, the Directors/ writers were the ones that screwed it up.
My wife had never seen Star Wars and she really enjoyed the newest trilogy with Rey since she didn’t have any preconceived notions of what it should or shouldn’t be. Sure. I had my fair share of complaints but I had a lot of fun watching them with her. Daisy did a great job.
I felt similarly watching the sequels with my niece and nephews. They weren't perfect, and we had fun as a family. And my niece had a female lead to look up to.
She is a really creative actress, just watch other films’ 🎞️ she was involved with.
Honored to have met you
I didn't care for the films, but she did an amazing job and hearing her talk here confirms to me she is an absolute professional. A fantastic talent.
the mental gymnastics this woman is going through :( she's on point with it tho
CEILING HELP ME
She has to if she wants to ever get a job again
RJ certainly deserves every criticism thrown his way, if I ever hear the term "subvert expectations" again, it will be too soon. But to be fair, this is almost ENTIRELY JJs mess. He was the one that couldn't think of anything better than a poor copy of ANH. He was the one that thought of the idea to excise Luke from TFA and ditch him into self-exile. He was the one that thought it was a great idea not to reunite Luke, Leia, and Han. He was the one that couldn't write himself out of the mystery box he put trapped himself in Rise of Skywalker. The PT had its dialogue problems, but it at least gave us an original story that Lucas clearly planned out, but the ST was doomed the moment JJ was hired.
It's just insane to me that Disney could not help themselves to start milking this franchise and had the first movie announced before they even knew what they wanted for the trilogy. If they had planned things out, sure little changes could be made, but then like GL's trilogies they would at least feel like they made sense
granted we were privy to some of the BTS issues in real time, but it was so easy to be taken out of the story with the retcon mess it became
It’s weird that there’s films are so big that real conversations with the cast and crew rarely happen. This is a great exception to that.
She keeps looking up thinking ‘what can I say?’
Very clearly..
She's so sweet. She deserved so much better from the writers/directors/producers
Daisy is a Queen 👑
We love you daisy! Don't worry, can't wait to see you again!
Nothing against you, Daisy. Nothing against any of the actors. Many of us just found the writing to be totally incompetent.
Such an uncomfortable space to be interviewed.
I like Daisy as a person and as an actress. The disasterpiece that was the sequel trilogy was definitely not her fault imo. The only one shafted worse than her is John Boyega lol
I love her. I'm not a fan of the sequels, but she is outstanding
The crazy thing about Disney Star Wars and Lucas Star Wars is how all the actors viewed the movies and their performances and Star Wars as a whole. Ewan loved his role and embraced it and couldn't wait to get back. He's more than excited to come back as Obi Wan. Hayden had a weird period where people hated him but now love him, however, he always loved playing Anakin and wanted to do it again. Natalie, I wouldn't say "loved" her role as Padme but she was extremely well received and she would also love to play her role again. Mark Hamill, is, well, Mark Hamill and loves everything about it. He IS Star Wars. The sequel cast...they're all basically done. They don't appear to love their roles or embrace their characters and they seem to not like the movies and where it put them as a whole. When Episode 7 came out, they were still pretty hyped, even after 8 came out. Once TRoS got its backlash, they all kinda just moved on and want nothing to do with Star Wars or their characters, which is very different from everyone who was in the Lucas era. Sure, some might have different feelings than what I've covered but for the most part, they're done and they don't care. Daisy doesn't seem hyped to ever come back. Adam Driver doesn't exactly want to come back.
Well, all the characters in the prequels you mentioned, and the ones you mentioned from the OG trilogy were well written, so ofc they embrace their roles etc. If you were someone who gets cast to play a character in SW and you get all excited but the writers ruin it, you would be dissapointed aswell and probably wouldn't really want to come back or be hyped about it if you do
Give us a palpatine orgin story...or do a Dakin orgin story...explaining his clone existence as a failed force weilder for palpatine to possess.
I hope they do right by her this time
They won't. They're not capable of it. Star Wars has become a platform for an ideology that most of the world is rejecting.
It's the same team, basically, at Lucasfilm that brought you the Disney Trilogy abomination, so it is really doubtful. They did all the actors a disservice, especially the OG cast and Daisy being the star. They damaged the OG's and made her have pretty much zero character arc. Rey was a BORING character. She was super perfect in practically every way from the get-go. That's not an interesting person. They need to be able to overcome adversities and rise to the occasion. They can't go from awesome to super awesome. Yuck.
@@dan_hitchman007 I don’t think she was super perfect. I think male viewers just wanted to see her suck because they didn’t look at her and buy her as a worthy protagonist. Rey was flawed because she was stubborn, impatient, unpolished, and on occasion illogical - all of which she shared with Luke by the way. I’m over the tired Mary Sue complaint because it doesn’t apply for male protagonists: you expect the male action hero to be a badass and look cool doing stunts and trick shots and kicking ass and to know what he’s doing. But for the record, I had qualms with how they handled the original characters too.
Rey was boring because they didn’t DEVELOP her. They barely changed her look. They left her isolated with her parentage up in the air until panicking about it and giving it the dumbest explanation ever. They didn’t give her a personal goal other than to turn Kylo Ren; her other goal of ending the First Order was a shared goal with the entire rebellion. We can’t even say that her personal goal was to find her parents because she believed she was supposed to wait on Jakku for them to return and she had zero clues as to why they left or where to, so they shot her in the foot by making her innermost desire a totally passive point.
@@TheBrandiElizabeth You saw a different set of films than I from your perspective. It also has nothing to do with the character being female. There were great films with female protagonists that I grew up with. In comparison, Rey was a weakly written character with very little growth. They even had to come up with a last minute excuse as to why she was so amazing so early... being a Palpatine and that SURPRISE!! he's still alive. That little come out of nowhere twist completely ruined Vader's redemption in Jedi. They messed up Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, Vader, Chewie, Yoda, the droids... they just couldn't leave well enough alone. No wonder Mark Hamill and John Boyega were pissed.
@@dan_hitchman007 I don't think I did. I think you just agreed with me. And I stand by what I said about Rey even if you swear it doesn't apply to you specifically.
I'm not sure I'm a fan of how you framed that kiss question, Josh, but thanks for asking it.
Nobody hates Star Wars as much as Star Wars fans.
Same as it ever was. I think “fans” of SW 77 (before it was renamed A New Hope) were originally pissed about both ESB and RofJ. Only time made them lighten up, same goes for the Prequels, they were so hated in their time they gave death threats to its actors and keep in mind this was both early Internet days and pre-YT. It got to the point of People v George Lucas and his indifference towards the future of the series.
More and more, the SW brand feels like a monkey’s paw, cursing everyone involved. I’m definitely looking forward to Rey’s comeback adventure. That said, SW fan sites and videos, run as fast as you can away from them. They’re all toxic.
@@GeneralBulldog54 Totally agree. As an 80s kid (meaning 70s-born) I remember how much grief ROTJ got. Some fans said the Ewoks “ruined” Star Wars. There was blowback about the sister revelation. And people who still hated that Han “won” the love triangle.
And then there was division about the EU. It “ruined” the OT.
And the prequels got so much hate (including for “ruining” the EU) and the OT was lionized as superior. Fans called for George’s head!
And then, of course, Disney “ruined” Star Wars. And fans said only George knew Star Wars and the prequels were lionized.
The cycle just keeps going!
…which is why the ability of Rogue One to have pleased the majority of fans from all eras is still remarkable to me. Sure, the Kyle Katarn fans are still shook but it ranks pretty high on most people’s lists!
This is such a lame attempt to deflect valid criticism. I see this quoted so often when the sequel trilogy is talked about. God forbid they don't get down on their knees and kiss the trilogies ass. No one likes a sycophant.
Or hear me out.....maybe it was the writing that was abysmal.
@@trevorthornley8835 Jesus Christ with a didgeridoo and a BB gun, riding a plaid-skinned T-Rex through downtown 1955 Los Angeles, if y’all applied the same standard of writing to the whole brother-kissing, technologically-stagnant, aerodynamically-improbable, impossibly-cozy vast galaxy of Star Wars as you do to the sequels, you’d find enormous problems with the entire franchise. Yet, in one breath, you forgive the OT and PT but pillory the ST.
Star Wars ain’t War and Peace. Unclench and let the kids who grew up with the ST love it as much as whichever trilogy you loved as a kid.
The actors need to understand that most fans aren't upset at them at all, nor do they blame them for sequel trilogy. It's directed at the writers, directors and executives at Disney.
Well... The caveat being if any of the actors shill or gaslight on the fans.
That sort of thing goes down like a cup of cold sick.
She's a great actor and I will forever have a fanboy crush on her but she restored Star Wars magic. You can see how well she gelled with Harrison and Mark. So glad she's coming back. They must be paying her a fortune but it will be well deserved.
Daisy is just so lovely
I just feel sorry for Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver in particular as they're clearly very capable actors but all the people who acted in the new non canon Star Wars sequel trilogy got shafted with the worst possible story and script.
Why feel more sorry for those two when everybody else's arcs were sidelined because of theirs?
Daisy and the crew were doing the best they could with the material given to them. The creative is responsible for the outcome of that trilogy.
I LOVED Daisy Ridley as Rey. Rey is my favorite Jedi by far! So powerful yet so compassionate and the strength to come from being alone and having nothing to rise up and defeat a powerful enemy for the benefit of everyone. She also had the strength to battle and win against her own doubts and demons.
It was basically impossible to come back from Rian Johnson’s abomination
I don't think anyone is or should be upset with her. She didn't write those awful scripts or completely change the direction of the narrative 3 times within the span of 3 movies. She showed up and did her job to the best of her ability and it's a shame that her character and talent were wasted on such terrible writing.
You clearly know nothing about writing or cinema. Yet you persist with your one-dimensionsal nonsense. It's getting old.
You clearly no nothing about writing or the cinema, for that matter.
It wasn’t divisive, it was garbage
Garbage was Rise.
tlj was still divisive among the fanbase even though it sucked, but it’s hard to find someone who genuinely likes ros
7 was descent
8 was upsetting (Luke's death)
9 was the last nail to the coffin
I loved the sequels and Daisy and Rey! Thanks for the interview!
Being a grownup about it. Very rare in young actresses today.
“This interview was really insightful. It’s tough to hear how upsetting the response to The Rise of Skywalker was for Daisy Ridley. Her dedication to the role of Rey and the Star Wars universe is evident, and it’s a reminder of the human side of these big franchises. Thanks for sharing this, Josh Horowitz! 🌟”
The film upset a lot of people.
Ofc it did biggest crime in film history not to have one scen whit luke leia and han, 😂😂😂😂
OMG, she's such a pretty, gorgeous, beautiful, talented, breathtaking, & dedicated actress. I'm honored & glad to see her star in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy as Rey Skywalker. My only regret is that the storyline plot could have been much greater & awesome than what we got. And I don't blame her for ruining the sequel trilogy; it wasn't her fault. She did her best to accommodate the sequel trilogy's filming direction & adapt to the changing storyline plot material that was given to her. Daisy Ridley as Rey Skywalker will truly be the bad###, legendary Jedi character forever immortalized in the Star Wars universe. I can't wait to see in anymore future Star Wars projects. May The Force Be With You Always, Rey. And keep up the great work, Daisy; I'm rooting for you always! 😘😍🥰🌹🌹🌹♥️♥️♥️✌️✌️✌️
I never stopped liking her specifically. I like her as an actress, and I hated the "character" they made her play. The only reason I don't want a Rey movie is because I know there is no one under the employ of Disney that will do this character any justice.
She's cool, everything Disney did with the main Star Wars story can go to hell.
The fault of those movies was not the actors, it was the writting.
How do you create a multi million dollar franchise?
Put Kathleen Kennedy in charge of a multi billion dollar franchise.
can you really blame them? she produced and executive produced some of great movies like jurassic park, back to the future and so on, so with her resume, do you really think she would mess up star wars like that?
@@isimikehinde5584 she lied to George.
@@isimikehinde5584 she was just a coffee lady. Another problem is she's a feminist.
@@isimikehinde5584they could have fired her a long time ago, but she’s still there, at this point it’s on disney
Kathleen Kennedy also produced ET.....She was a great producer if only they separate starwars division from Lucas film like what Disney had done to marvel.
I love her as an actress. I love her as conversationalist.
Great style, beauty & legs 😅 ❤ 😍
Daisy is so lovely. People need to remember that actors are human beings.
What you have to remember is that, even if something is bad, the people involved in making it can still have had a good time making it. There's a _massive_ difference between being a person working on and creating a thing, and being the person seeing the end result. Two completely different experiences and perspectives. Daisy is allowed to be passionate about what she did and the people she worked with, even if we can look back now and go 'yeah that was pretty mid'.
Why can’t anyone ask any hard questions to these folks. She seems cool
I hope she gets more work , she’s a delight & a wonderful actress deff will watch her new starwars movie 🍿
she didn't deserve all the fan hate with episode IX or those "fans" talking about the mary sue thing all the time. Daisy was a newcomer, she debuted with Star Wars and played a beautiful role as a heroine for young girls to be inspired by. It's a shame that the sequel trilogy was so poorly handled, each film had a different idea so that in episode VIII Rey would be anyone and in episode IX she is Palpatine's granddaughter. That kiss was awful, yes, but the script is not her fault. I'm happy that she will return to the franchise!
She didn't get much fan hate to be fair, her underwritten and misdirected character did. Most people felt sorry for Daisy having to go along with this brutal vandalization of a beloved IP by Rian Johnson and then by JJ's absolute middle finger of a final instalment.
@noyoo123 fans gave her a lot of hate too. I'm guessing you didn't see it since you weren't doing it, but there was a ton of it.
Rian did a much better job than JJ, and Rian actually made one of the most "star warsy" Star Wars movie that ever "star wared". It's just Rian packed too much in and relied on people reading the book, which most didn't
@@Dynnen YES! Ep VIII is one of my favorites movies from the franchise, Rian wasn't afraid to be bold and bring something new to the saga since, let's face it, The Force Awakens played a lot on safety and nostalgia. The idea of Kylo killing Snoke and being the main villain and Rey being special but being a nobody, without a big related family, is how they should have followed it but then JJ came and changed everything in IX...
what are you saying? the mary sue argument is about rey’s character, not the actress that plays her
I love Daisy Ridley. She seems like such a genuinely beautiful person. I feel so sorry for her though. The selfishness of K.K., R.J. and J.J. and their stupid agenda have wasted her talent…and K.K. is about to waste it again.
If they in fact, make this movie, it will be the biggest box office bomb in movie history. Much, much worse than what happened to Solo.
I really wish that Daisy wouldn’t do this to herself, but I understand she may have already been under contract, where Lucasfilm has the right to exercise their option for more films.
Poor Daisy, I really hope this doesn’t harm her mentally and emotionally.😢
Despite the bad writing and the gutting of Star Wars...and the fact that Daisy knows that fans don't want this new Star Wars she has 12 million reasons to do the movie regardless.
Maybe the writing is good enough so that Daisy can do enough with the character that the end product is ok-ish ( I doubt it but who knows - the same producers not only made trash movies like ep 8 and 9 but also Rogue One so there's always the possibility of a miracle).
idk if selfish is the right word, at least with rian, incompetence fits better, he genuinely thought that tlj was a masterpiece, kk was definitely selfish tho, and jj clearly wasn’t even trying with ros 😂
The biggest problem with the Disney Trilogy was it wasn’t planned. They had no overall theme, no through story, no arc, no vision. The original trilogy worked because the 3 main characters all had arcs that covered the 3 movies and each excelled in different areas so they didn’t step into each others zone - Luke was the young dreamer who became a wizard, Han was the selfish rogue who became selfless and fell in love and Leia was the leader who fell in love - it’s why those films are so believed, the characters were defined and memorable, helped by a genuine chemistry between the actors. The Disney trilogy had paper thin characters who did nothing and showed no signs of growth or chemistry over the 3 films.
This is SO not on her. She did a great job with what she given. I hope she knows that.
I wonder if there's some kind of weird NDA she had to sign where she couldn't say anything bad (honest) about TROS, because her eyes are glued to the ceiling in this clip as she tries to think of things that aren't actively critical
She actualky said it herself. TLJ and TROS were divisive, because Disney has failed to create a cohesive story that spans 3 movies. Ryan's unchallenged narcissism in creating TLJ was the downfall of the series. Daisy is a genuinly nice person and noone hated her as an actress, she just happened to play the lead in a terribly misguided project by Disney.
The Rise of Skywalker was supposed to be about the Skywalker family. What even was the point of Anakin and the prophecy? Big money screws up everything
I didn’t mind her acting or the premise, just that they made her abilities instantly insane.
I liked all three movies. Daisy did an amazing job. And I can't wait to see her as Rey again.
CONSOOM THE PRODUCT
They literally didn't now who is Rey while filming ep9, that's how writers took seriously sequel trilogy, they made s*it up as they went, and we saw how final product turned out...
I just don't understand. How could such a monumental franchise be treated so half-hazardly? We're talking billions.. you can afford to pay for talent.. actual, reliable, resourceful talent... and this is how it was treated? Something doesn't add up.
@@halominder I know, and still can't believe it....
@@halominder CEO need rush trilogy for fat bonus ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Can you explain wtf you just said because that was a lot of lying ...
@@lordofthebricks1no you don't know provide evidence
A part of me died when I watched The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. The Force Awakens was passable I thought it was good, even though it was a rehash of A New Hope and played it safe, and we never got the original cast in a scene together which was one of the biggest missed opportunities.
I was done after TFA tbh. That derailed the whole franchise and where it could go and what it all meant if you really analyse it. TLJ actually was 50/50 hit and miss for me. Like literally 50/50 hated one thing loved the next but was interested for where 1 or 2 parts of the story was going, I knew though it was never going to be good and had no faith especially when JJ was brought back and still have not been able to make it through the whole film and nor do I want to which is insane because I’ve literally seen every bit of visual media ever released under the Star Wars brand and have had read all the canon books and comics and a decent chunk of legends. I don’t know how they did it to make me disinterested in a product so much
@@protector_of_the_realmsI remember yelling NO at my point when they announced JJ was back on 9. Thinking correctly it wad huge mistake. Most of what happens in 7 was a waste of time, because it had already been told better in 4, and because it didn't progress the story at all.
Disney scares the actors into being veeeery careful with their words
Except Mark Hamill, who doesn't care. lol
I fell so bad for her and the other actors. Disney took a huge crap all over the movies and characters because they wanted to have their money asap.
Being mad at daisy is like being mad at mark. They had no choice but to what they were told.
They weren’t “divisive”.
They were hated.
Yeah, she's being very polite and diplomatic...
Daisy 💯 She did great with what she was given.
Daisy comes across as such a lovely gal.
The issue was the writing and the way Female Characters are treated. Women don't train they are born with talent or they have none in movies. It's kind of like the Conan Series, he was a slave who worked as a mule, and became strong. Luke Trained with Yoda. Ray was just born beautiful and powerful. No training needed and she is better than Kylo? They tried to address this in the 3rd movie but it's just something an audience notices. We want to see the earning of skills, the pain that makes a character great. Not emotional pain but the pain of striving for something. Without seeing that it's hard to believe in a hero. I think that's one reason so many superhero movies don't really make you feel anything. You get bit by a spider and your powerful, its a cop out for the work needed on a character. The Dark Knight shows the pain and training of Bruce. Even the First Wonder Woman showd Gal's character being pushed to her limit. That movie made you feel like the Amazons were great warriors, and made you root for them. Or a Superman character who does not want to be Superman he just wants to be Clark, the world just wont let him do that.
The Relationship between Kylo and Ray never made sense... Maybe I don't get the "Bad Boy" thing but after she watches him kill his father, her father figure. Then try to kill his mother, her mother figure. She falls for him while he is attempting to kill her mentor Luke? Falling for the bad guy makes a female character look weak to male audiences. I wanted to see her fall for Finn the guy who risked it all to leave the First Order. To complete a better redemption story for Finn. Finn gets to kill his tormenter Phasma. Can you imagine if they wanted us to believe Finn would kiss Phasma? No because no guy would do that. But they think its acceptable to Ray to fall for Kylo, or to fix him? Yuck...
Her character (Ray) was good and she was great, but for the older fans seeing Luke as a failure to his family, and Ray was a hard blow. Movies just can't recover from that. Daisy Ridley is just a victim of bad Disney Writers. If Ray is rebooted it would be great to see her as an instructor to make fun of the bad writing of the past. Show her training the new actors, or working hard on her character like we saw in her third movie.
She's very beautiful 🥰 ❤️ 😘 Love her 🥰❤️😘
I know people will probably be super mad at this, but I honestly still think Rey in The Force Awakens is a better character than Ahsoka in anything.
She doesn't deserve an ounce of hate for those movies. It's all in the writing. She seems like a genuinely nice person who was excited to be a part of Star Wars.
You can tell the Mouse has a gun aimed at the back of her head
It's not her fault that the last coherent, complete SW movie came out in 1983 and the rest have been built on a mountain of hubris. From Lucas thinking he didn't need help with the dialogue even with his two main actors complaining about the dumb sentences they were being given, to Rian Johnson thinking he didn't need to understand what made a series popular before he "subverted" it, to a studio head who never got past her gender studies at college. The result? Forty-one years of missed opportunities and mediocre mud.
Last jedi was awful