Daisy Ridley talks about returning to Star Wars & her experience the first time around...

[@kingxkishi4904]

Thank you for being frank, Thor.

[@worstwordmonger]

I don’t think the issue with Poe was his “hot headedness”. It’s that he was right at the beginning, but the characters and movie kept saying he was wrong, and ultimately learned to make the wrong decisions

[@RaikenXion]

11:58 Yes, thank you Naboo. You can't just make one movie in a trilogy that's heavy on nostalgia, very "safe" even and heavily similar to a original beloved Film in a hugely popular franchise; then do a complete heavy un-turn and make your next follow up sequel, the complete opposite, where it's heavily subversive and expect that very same audience and Fans to just be completely onboard with what you've done. That's going to upset alot of people, and what really did not help was the way inwhich Disney treated us fans who had issues with that movie afterward. They made it into this whole thing of if you criticize this then you're a bigot, ist/phobe. Infact Disney completely dismissed Fan criticism of TLJ at first, it's like they just didn't want to believe or pay attention to how many of us out there had issues with the movie. They caused all of this now, Disney and KK have turned starwars into this purely Identity Politics thing. Disney deliberately used the mainstream media to twist Fan's criticisms and paint us as sexist, having some problem with Rey cause of sexism, and a problem with women being in starwars in general; and that was never the case. It's all just gone upside down now and Disney don't seem to have many places to go now, it's all gotten stale and fans are losing interest. I get tired even going over this but its true, just don't attack fans, take constructive criticism onboard Disney, and stop making everything about Race/Gender and Identity, in your shows movies, but I also mean making that a huge thing regards us Fans and audiences that don't like how you handle these IPs.

[@nasredine4363]

Je ne savais pas que Naboo parlait Français ! Vous avez le bonjour d'un de vos follower français

[@revjirhcs]

The disconnect with the fan base is crazy if she thinks alot of people like the Rey Palpatine character…..

[@thareelhelloagain]

She was referencing people in her personal life who had asked her about a future Rey project, not random Star Wars fans in the street. What she meant was that multiple people who know her personally had asked about a Rey project in that same specific week.

[@bobafett006]

It’s funny when they casted daisy for a starwars trilogy I thought she was taking the role of Mara jade and then they said Rey and I haven’t understood starwars since 😂❤

[@keizervanenerc5180]

Men didn't like Rey. But not just the men. The woman and the children too!

[@justinthomas7222]

🤣🤣 pin-worthy!

[@BelovedTyrant]

Hey Thor, thanks for putting out regular videos, I enjoy listening to them. I see you getting exasperated with some commentors. It's never fun being gaslit so severely for so long. Hang in there friend!

[@JohnSheppard1]

I know the paycheck would be hard to refuse and she probably had fun making the Star Wars movies she made, but I really wish she said no to coming back. The sequel trilogy era needs to die for the fandom to heal and move on. With Lucasfilm doubling down on the glaring issue of half the fanbase being alienated by the ST, continuing with these kinds of projects only exacerbates the situation.

[@Mr.Yoda66]

You two are awesome! I'm sorry about the unfair demonetization of the channel that I heard about some months ago. I hope KZbin realizes their mistake. Your passion for Star Wars is uplifting and inspiring Thor!

[@fredlusyk6741]

...so, if someone doesn't love Rey, does that make them a Reycist...? 👽 🖖 🤖

[@zacharyclark3693]

I didn’t think that last comment was that bad. As long as she wasn’t saying most men or most Star Wars fans, hate women, then sure. Fine. She probably just gave a safe answer to move on in the interview. It does ignore the issue of why many fans had problems with the character of Rey. And I think most of those issues have to do with the writing, not the Daisy Ridley herself. If anyone needs to acknowledge the real problem, it needs to be Lucasfilm. I get that actors don’t want to burn bridges and lose potential job offers. The company needs to apologize for encouraging this behavior of blaming the majority of fans for the bad actions of a few, and making terrible excuses like sexism and racism for the underperformance of their projects. At the very least, stop that behavior from here on out.

[@RaikenXion]

that's exactly what Disney and Lucasfilm need to do but sadly I can't see that happening anytime soon. It's just all tiresome now, they've like burned so many bridges with fans now Disney and KK; it never needed to be like this. Ofcourse there are sexists and racists out there, but Fans are not like that, it just feels like too much damage has been done now to the Fandom and to the brand.

[@themoonman-4]

Gotta go sorry

[@decay79]

I agree with Naboo, the initial character of Rey was likeable, i do however think it fell apart the moment when she suddenly beat Kylo out of no where. I mean her getting around the trooper yea sure, it's supposed to be an advanced technique, but as Naboo said, a good reason could follow.. But no they just went all out Mary... And honestly i think she is both a very pretty and charming girl on screen, and yes it's a shame that she caught a lot of the flag for the movies failings..

[@Paradox-es3bl]

Flak*

[@skepticalsmurf]

I concur,l initially warmed up to Rey up until the aforementioned fight scene,no way should a novice be able to battle toe to toe with an experienced Force combatant,it made more sense for Finn(who actually had offensive/defensive skills)to give Kylo at least some difficulty 🤔 l like Daisy,she’s a good actress(after TFA l even purchased a Rey figure)but her character was terribly written 😓

[@lennyztrobos8678]

@@skepticalsmurf I think a problem with that scene is Kylo Ren. I actually have alot of problems with him that I think people overlook because the actor brute forced people into believing it was a good character, but like, how old is Kylo Ren? Is he actually an experienced fighter? I highly doubt Snoke trained him to do a flip... its like he alternates between being a pityful angsty teenager, and being basically Darth Vader himself, and it varies from scene to scene.

[@Kevin_Street]

@@lennyztrobos8678 That's a good point. Adam Driver is a good actor, maybe so good he made Kylo seem real when there wasn't much of a character written in the script.

[@skepticalsmurf]

@@lennyztrobos8678 bottom line,practically all the characters in the Disney sequel trilogy were mishandled,if the powers that be had "planned" the saga out it could have been terrific but they chose the safer route...

[@1massboy]

I mean to be quite honest with you. I don’t think that many people will be interested in the new movie. But I wish Daisy Ridley well.

[@jacksparrow9227]

She could have risen above that, like a Skywalker

[@krugbit9642]

Instead, she somehow returned.

[@HighHeelKnight]

How many times has an actor signed up for a movie or show that was pitched a certain way... only for the final product to be vastly different from its inception? 🤔 Madame Web, Suicide Squad, the Disney Daredevil and Blade projects. That's just a small sample from recent years. 🤦

[@billmcdermott9647]

Huntsman winters war. Charlise theron signed onto a prequel about her character but then it morphed into a sequel Ghost ship went from a psychological thriller to a supernatural horror There was a realistic psychological thriller version of Snow White that became the Sam Neil and signourney weaver version

[@skepticalsmurf]

true,even Adam Driver has said he was disappointed with the changes done to his character during filming 😓

[@demonsofrazg]

I like Daisy Ridley as a person. It's just the character Rey is awful.

[@PixelKatana]

The fandom needs a reset or fresh start. Unless they meddle with TWBW/time travel they have no way to fix Jake, the next best thing is a big time jump so they can create a new story completely removed from the Skywalkers. They have such a layup with Grogu's species being able to live almost a millennium to jump ahead 200+ years and still have some recognizable connection to the Mandoverse if they wish. Blaming -ists has ran its course.

[@fredlusyk6741]

《Dissney STAR WARS: Episode VII~ Folie à Une!》 《Dissney STAR WARS: Episode VIII: Folie à Deux!!!》 《Dissney STAR WARS: Episode IX~ Folie à Beauuucouuuuup!!!》 👽 🖖 🤖 《Dissney STAR WARS: Episode X~ Merci, Mais Non Merci》

[@StefSis]

Ah, so guten diese Naboosen newsen!!! Ja ja jahr!!

[@willblack9220]

15 years later would be nice. I would miss the characters.

[@bobbymauro3721]

SW is dead until KK and her misandrist cronies are gone! Until then, please Disney, please leave SW alone.

[@istari0]

Could you post a link to the original article in French and then someone who really knows French can read it and clear up whether this is a translation issue or not?

[@thebendu33]

I'm french, I could check on it.

It's an article and not a recorded interview, so it's difficult to really know what Ridley or the interviewer have said and how it have been translated from english to french. But, in my opinion, from what I read, there's probably no translation issue.

[@Solo13508]

I think you'd be surprised by how many people are still talking about Star Wars offline. I've made several friends just based off shared passion for Star Wars.

[@thorskywalkerplus]

Well then they're Star Wars fans. I'm talking about the average person... I don't think they care much about "when the next movie is" or "what's the next show".

[@morgansheppy1584]

Daisy must have found the only 2 people who wonder about ray

[@stephenelberfeld8175]

It was the directors and writers false representations of the original Star Wars heroes to make Rey look awesome by comparison without much training that diminished everything that went before the Sequel Trilogy. This biased undoing of the franchise to promote an agenda and shoehorn in some unrelated themes, had no place in continuing the Skywalker story that the fans came to the movie to see.

[@MurdocIsASaint]

Thor is telling on himself every time they accuse some folks of hating women, he always assumes they are talking about him 😂

[@WesesaAbioye]

It is very odd, I’ve noticed that with a lot of other channels as well.

[@thorskywalkerplus]

Because I have been accused of hating women many, many, MANY times over the years based solely on my dislike of this character.

[@Mr.Yoda66]

Not at all, this was a matter of interpretation of what was said in the interview. I think Thor's reaction was justified based on the question, context and the answer given. Doubly so with him having been accused personally of hating women because he doesn't like Rey as a character.

[@michaellane5381]

Whenever Rey is brought up this is inevitable... When I trash the Sequels, it is always the Squandered EU I look towards vs the lackluster sequel galaxy's future: because "Ben solo" exists, we the fans have lost out on Jacen, Jaina, Anakin, and their babysitter Winter, we also lost out on Ben Skywalker and the Ross/Rachel dynamic of Luke and Mara Jade. All of these rich, full characters, many of them strong females, cut from Canon for a whiny pseudo-vader hung up on the one time his father was mean to him before he burned down his entire Hacienda with all Luke's friends and other students.

[@dfl7578]

@@thorskywalkerplus I know articles have come out suggesting people are sexist for not liking certain characters. But I assume you're talking about personal interactions (Comments? Other social media? Emails?). I read comments on both channels, but I miss things. When you say many times over the years, roughly how many? Dozens? Hundreds? That demonstrates a huge problem if it's happening frequently and in a great numbers. We can call out actual sexism and also critique characters and storytelling. We need to separate the two.

[@brendangkelleher2669]

I’m pretty sure money is why she decided to come back. Well,it looks like the movie may be cancelled but I hope she gets paid at least

[@michaellane5381]

Not like she has been getting many other roles since, she got the worst of both worlds compared to Hamil who at least did great and got compensation.

[@WesesaAbioye]

I don’t understand why Thor or a lot of people get offended when an actress says men didn’t like her character for being female, are you just assuming she’s saying all? I think she’s just talking about the specific ones who didn’t like Rey for that specific reason. If it isn’t about you why are you making it about you?

[@PixelKatana]

Because SHE didn't qualify it to "some specific ones" you are self-admittedly assuming that for her. She generalized just like you are accusing those who take offense to her comments of doing.

[@thorskywalkerplus]

I don't understand why you think I'm 'offended'? I just think it's a dumb fucking comment and I'm tired of hearing the same old narrative about men not liking women in Star Wars... especially when you consider how many times, yes, I have been accused of this very thing over the years.

[@dillonroberts9945]

Cause she and many actors and actresses say "men don't like me cause I'm a woman" or "they don't like me because I'm not white" it's an exhausting and stupid explanation to deflect that their character is shitty

[@WesesaAbioye]

@@thorskywalkerplus The way you got angry in the video and now towards me is very eye opening. It’s odd you let comments like that affect you so much if they aren’t true.

[@PixelKatana]

@@WesesaAbioye Oh so you are just here to gaslight people. Got it.

[@timidwolf]

From what I've heard from more direct (no translation needed) conversations with Daisy, she'd not fuelled the "ists and phobes" rhetoric before, so I'd hope this is a mistranslation. But it's hard to figure out what was said that could be translated in such a way. Either way I'm not going to bother with the Rey movie (even if it does happen), as it has a terrible foundation it's being built upon, the Disney -faecals- sequels.

[@solidus0079]

I'm so desperate for Star Wars to be good again, I'd even accept a Rey movie as long as they do it well. Not that I'm necessarily expecting it to be, but I'm just saying.

[@RaikenXion]

With me deep down I am also desperate for *Star Wars* to be good, AWESOME and Amazing again! I yearn to Escape into the Galaxy Far, Far Away, to be taken to awesome, cool amazing weird alien worlds, with all kinds of cool creatures, and just have really fun stories that can take me out of myself, because my "Reality" that I live in, in my life today sucks! But all that said, I just don't trust Lucasfilm under Kathleen Kennedy, she's the big, massive white elephant in the room for me, who just keeps interfering and influencing most projects, and she sabotages and ruins them. BOBF, Kenobi and Mando Season 3 are prime examples. I'm not interesting in people working entirely under her influence, doing her bidding and things entirely HER way! Like Filoni and Mangold. Those individuals I just see as heavily co-opted by Kennedy and I simply don't trust them. Honestly I don't see where exactly they can go with the Rey character, well I can see one way, to make her Flawed, make her a tragic character, inspired by the likes of "Tetsuo" from the Anime/Manga classic - *Akira* where she falls to the darkside, her power and unique ability through the Dyad of the force, ends up being too much for her and it sadly consumes her; to where she becomes so powerful, she cannot control her own power, regarding her Bloodline being a Palpatine consumed by the darkside, and it needs others, possibly her own students and a Force Sensitive Finn to ultimately defeat Rey. So I'm thinking a kind of "Dark Phoenix" and Tetsuo consumed by the power of Akira sort of situation. That's honestly the Only idea that makes sense for Rey imo at this point, because the way she was written and handled in the Sequels, she does EVERYTHING, "Downloads" like all of Kylo's training and force ability, in TROS novel, it even says something about when Rey force-healed Ben's wounds, she also healed his mind helping bring him back to the light; i mean the story group and people at Lucasfilm, handling the overall writing of Rey, it's just devolving into silly Fan Fiction at this point and I just can't take it seriously; AND Disney wanted this character to lead the entire franchise, that was their original plan coming off of the sequels. So when you have a character written as perfect and OP as that, where else can you honestly take them to make their continuing story feel satisfying?? What else can you do with a character like that? But I know KK and Disney would NEVER go for such a idea, mainly because of all this "Intersectional Feminism" that Hollywood is infected with today, where they see it as in order to Empower Women and Female characters, they have to basically be antagonistic "Girl Bosses" that are Perfect in every way and can Never do any wrong, and simply have no "Flaws". That's not right, it's a fallacy but that's how Hollywood are trying to push things, and they simply won't wake up to the Realization that, that's simply NOT *Realistic*.

[@skepticalsmurf]

I actually like Daisy,she’s a fine actress,Lucas Films did her personally and the Rey character a disservice,but the character IMO is irredeemable 🤔

[@MCsCreations]

I bet it's another case of "journalism". She didn't say what they wanted, so... There you go.

[@TheJmlew11]

Are the rings of power reviews no more? I enjoy reviews of that show more than the show itself

[@thorskywalkerplus]

I think we're still going to try and do them. Just like I think we'll be getting a review of Penguin up soon.

[@Razazan37]

Lets be real here. There isn't going to be a Rey movie. There simply isn't enough interest in the character or their sequels to the OT. This will be yet another in a long line of announced star wars movies that goes nowhere. It's already been announced that it is being delayed. In other words, Disney is canceling it. In the end, they only care about profit, and they are seeing the writing on the wall..finally.

[@kevinvassago]

Bro, send that article to every mf that made a fake news yt video about the Rey movie being canceled

[@nichlaschristensson1055]

Still love Daisy but she got some bad scripts in the sequels

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

IMO Disney needs to move the story forward. Jump thousands of years into the future. Introduce new characters who have only heard legends about what happened in the previous movies. Luke and Rae should be campfire tale's.

[@14bface]

I hated the sequels and Rey but still respect daisy. I hope that was a mistranslation. There is a million things to say regarding the fandom other than recognize the 1% that want to be rude on the internet

[@kennywilson5422]

She got offered a lot of money I bet. Nothing else to it.

[@Solo13508]

I believe it was confirmed that Mandalorian and Grogu is May and New Jedi Order is December. Also that just makes the most sense since Mando is already filming.

[@Sci-Fi-Mike]

I hope that comment from Daisy was grossly mistranslated, but I don't expect it was...

[@Gundam4]

Daisy Ridley is great she just got saddled with a horrible character

[@mleadenham1]

Still no script. The Rey Movie isn’t real.

[@soupful]

Not so the script has been revised 4 times already but KK gives notes wanting more changes and can only imagine the writer is fedup already. Intially the first screen writers departed the project. There for until the story is up to snuff seem's Disney doesnt want to go foward into pre-production let alone actually film. Kk cost re-filming of ROGUE ONE & SOLO so I get the prolonged delay considering KK is a total shitshow for Lucasfilm President and Producer of many failed SW shows by now.

[@marknovak6498]

Star Wars mythology is all a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. The premise is it is a history.

[@daruekeller]

honestly, I'm sick to death of this Disney bullshit. I don't give a damn if Rey has 12 more Star Was movies. they all will suck. and even if they don't I've got a lot of better things to waste my time on that giving a damn about a ruined children's story.

[@Paradox-es3bl]

No way that’s a mistranslation. It’s a misunderstanding from Disney, probably perpetuated by her reps and stuff, so that’s what she believes. Instead of a toxic masculine culture, she’s in a toxic feminine culture, and can’t escape the stupid beliefs she’s basically being brainwashed with. I kind of want to make another comparison… but I don’t necessarily want to piss off like 80% of the population… so let’s just say there’s a lot of stuff we believe that we only stop believing when we get exposed to other beliefs from other cultures and stuff. We need our beliefs challenged, or we’ll never escape the stupid ones. This can apply to anything from bad political takes to religious cult stuff, to the toxic “alpha male” bs… anything. You gotta get outside that echo chamber to learn how foolish that stuff is.

[@thebendu33]

Tres cool de savoir que l'un d'entre vous parle français. C'est rare.

[@lennyztrobos8678]

Im actually comming around on the issue. Of all the terrible problems and characters that the sequel era burdened us with, Rey is not even on the top 10. So when people where hating and meming on Rey endlessly, I actually do think it was gender related to a degree. If you take the sequel triology as canon, even Luke is a worse character than her. If you got more triggered by Reys mighty mighty force powers than by Luke being a depressed murderer suckling monster milk, then I think you might not have been entierly fair, is all Im saying.

[@lengteach]

She should have refused

[@martind.5257]

Please just make it STOP!

[@generalkenobi9782]

@thor sorry guys this is all fluff for the shareholders.

[@caseyjp1]

I have a different take on 'actors' vs. 'characters'. I was exposed to Hollyweird, and by extension 'actors' about a decade ago while producing an independent film. I completely lost the ability to feel starstruck, as 95% of actors are complete flakes/idiots off screen, and they prove this over and over in interviews. They have a job to do which is just one component of the final product. So when an actor says dumb crap, I shrug and either ignore it or laugh at it. (Andor's cast interviews is a good example of dumb stuff being said that had zero to do with the final product.) The ONLY thing I care about is if that final product is good or garbage. The sequel trilogy was crap x 10 unfortunately, so hearing all of this 'bring Rey back!' stuff falls into my 'laugh and move on' bucket.

[@thisismyname3928]

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