Although 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker concluded the Skywalker Saga that had been running ever since A New Hope launched the Star Wars franchise in 1977, we’re not done spending time with one of the Sequel Trilogy’s main protagonists. In April 2023, it was announced that Daisy Ridley will reprise Rey in a Star Wars movie focused on her building a new Jedi Order. While we’re still in the dark about what can be specifically expected from this story, Ridley has opened up about the circumstances that led to her agreeing to appear in this upcoming Star Wars movie, (in which John Boyega is also rumored to return), calling it something she “really wanted to do.”
The actress shared while speaking with AlloCiné about her new movie Sometimes I Think About Dying, which opens January 24 on the 2024 release schedule, that she was approached by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy for what she thought was just going to be a normal breakfast. The executive instead used the meal as an opportunity to pitch Ridley to return to a galaxy far, far away. The Rey performer recalled:
