Daisy Ridley’s first time starring in a movie was Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You know, the No. 5 highest grossing movie of all time under the Avatar movies, Avengers: Endgame and Titanic? Talk about a big splash into Hollywood. Over four years after capping off the sequel trilogy with The Rise of Skywalker, Ridley leads one gem among 2024 movies, Sometimes I Think About Dying. In the upcoming release, Ridley plays quite the foil to Rey Skywalker – a quiet, lonely office worker living in Oregon, just struggling to connect with the people around her.
After Sometimes I Think About Dying first caught our eyes when it premiered at Sundance last year, the movie is finally making its way to theaters this month. Ahead of its release, I asked the actress how playing the cottage cheese-loving woman named Fran may have spoke to her after being greatly known for playing larger-than-life characters. In her words:
