I recall reading something that the whole Wampa scene in Empire was put there as a way to "injure" Luke on screen and thus be able to explain the changes to Mark Hammil's face due to the accident.
I recall reading something that the whole Wampa scene in Empire was put there as a way to "injure" Luke on screen and thus be able to explain the changes to Mark Hammil's face due to the accident.
TBH, I don't think she's a very good actress (maybe not bad, but nothing special), so I think she's destined for the convention circuit and "remember Star Wars!" castings. I'm sure she'll get some offers here and there, but I don't really expect her career to go very far outside of Star Wars.
Sort of on the same topic,It's kind of interesting that some of the bit players in some Star Wars actually go on to pretty big careers.
Keira Knightley, Rose Byrne played handmaidens in TPM.
Sally Hawkins is an extra in TPM, seen during the big crowd scene at the end of the film.
A lot of the minor supporting roles from the various films have had pretty substantial careers in Britain, as that's where most of the studio work for the films was done (With the exception of the prequels that were mostly filmed in Australia, and hence often had more Australian/New Zealand actors). Shane Rimmer of course, Jeremy Bulloch who played Boba Fett was pretty well known in Britain even before Fett....Hannah John-Kamen's (Ghost from Ant-Man 2) first film was a First Order officer in TFA, and one of the resistance pilots in TFA, Tosin Cole, is now Doctor Who companion Ryan.
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I honestly don't see her as having that "it" factor that pushes an actor to that level of of star. Maybe I am wrong and she will really shine in other roles, but just going by what I have seen so far she is pretty bland and forgetable.
She's one successful MCU or DCEU movie away from being typecast as Rey...or if she has a prominent role in something bonkers such as another JUMANJI movie.
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Speaking of ... Latino Review had her and Oscar meeting with possibly being cast in the Eternals and/or side characters that cameo with Charlie Hunnam in Eternals that sets up the next phase.
Also, she looks pretty amazing in Ophelia:
Hamlet from Ophelia's perspective? Count me in!
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Insufficient data. Humphrey Bogart was second banana gangster character until George Raft didn't want to do The Maltese Falcon, and Julia Roberts was little more than an extra until Darryl Hannah turned down Pretty Woman. Anything can happen in movies.
To me, it pretty much comes down to how her agent does in getting her films post-TROS. I think she's got plenty of charisma and skill, and *at minimum* could go to the stage and refine her skills even more and build the only kind of reputation English actors respect, that of being a theater actor, there.
As for whether she can be a "star" as well as an actor...
...Honestly, to some extent, the old idea of a "star" is kind of dead in this world of thousands of different formats in which to get your performance on screen. Now to be a "star," its more about either just building an exhaustively powerful resume by grinding it out for years, or rising to the occasion when given the perfect role in some major film... and not having someone sabotage that role with bad writing or directing. Nothing about Ridley's performances say that she's unable to exploit a good role, so she's not a Sam Worthington.
Her biggest issue right now, I'd say, is that the writing for her character in The Last Jedi was horrible, hollowed out her character and made her shallow, and wasted her greatest strengths as an actress and in the groundwork laid by TFA. While I don't think any of the actors in TLJ were well served by the script, with the exception of Mark Hamill (because as bad as I think the plotting was for Luke, the role was at least maximized for Hamill's range and skill), Ridley was stuck with maybe the most high-risk, negligible-reward writing for Rey, where no one was really capable of elevating that character arc because of its issues.
While Finn was wasted by an apathetic script, Boyega was at least given the job of mostly holding the character in a static "stasis" form similar to TFA (just not growing in any real way.)
While Kylo Ren was babied, pampered, and arguably made even more entitled and loathsome by the script's blatant double standards favoring the character, Rian Johnson full understood the type of head-space he wanted Driver to play, and subtle inner turmoil with occasional outbursts is how Driver rolled in TFA, so that was okay for the actor.
Rey, on the other hand? Rian Johnson's script required neutering the character's agency, perspective, and general protagonist role to make her a tool for the plots of Luke and Kylo, in a nonsensical and unbalanced way unsupported by the actual script, and with no real growth or challenge outside of a pseduo-romance with Kylo that would embarrass Stephanie Meyers and probably most Twilight fanfiction writers with how trite and under-developed everything was. How was Ridley supposed to convey anything organic, sincere, or believable with a film that fundamentally views everything through a "Yeah, but how does Kylo feel?" prism and is willing to erase or downplay *everything* that brings up uncomfortable questions about that?
TFA shows everything that Ridley has that can make her a star - strong physicality, extreme skill at emoting, comic timing, intensity, quiet charisma and an ability to engage the audience without dialogue. TLJ just shows that you can undermine all of that with poor enough writing, simply by making a character so blatantly artificial that not even Meryl Streep can help you.
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Given her age I figure she might get stuck taking whatever roles Emma Watson turns down.
Kristen Stewart was able to make a career for herself post Twilight and if she could it,
I see no reason why Ridley can't.
I like Daisy but given her current film "Chaos Walking" is being touted as "unreleasable" that worries me a bit. Granted, they're not saying its because of her acting, but I'm sure it will tarnish her rep a bit to be associated with a film that appears to be so bad that the studios can't release it. I wish her luck!
Holland is supposed to have a stellar carreer after Spider-man? I'm not really sure about that.
Don't forget the kid that played Anakin in the Phantom Menace...poor kid the lure of Stardom can ruin those so young.