Since the Star Wars: The Force Awakens cast was first announced last April there has literally been thousands of rumours about who is playing who, and maybe even more importantly who is connected to who. Even after we got our first character name drops Star Wars fans still didn’t seemed satisfied and speculation continued to spread that some of these characters aren’t who they say they are.
With The Force Awakens only six months away and two trailers having already been released we still don’t really know an awful lot about our main characters.
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During an event in Japan Daisy Ridley may have let slip an important piece of information about who her character really is and who her parents are.
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When asked specifically about certain rumours that have popped up online about her parentage Ridley had this to say:
“I’m not sure how much I can say. I guess because I’ve said that I’m solitary, and that’s how I begin, that is probably a big clue as to what…it is.”
Ridley was being interviewed alongside President of LucasFilm Kathleen Kennedy, who was nervously laughing throughout her attempt to answer. Ridley herself seemed very hesitant to speak and towards the end realised she may have said too much. You can check out the audio clip on the Star Wars Report podcast.
Did you get what she was hinting at?
Ridley will play a character simply known as Rey who is said to be a scavenger on the planet Jakku before meeting Finn (John Boyega) and ultimately setting the movie off in another direction. Since her casting was announced she has been heavily compared to Carrie Fisher and Natalie Portman in looks suggesting that she may be apart of the Skywalker family. Her slip hints at that but suggests something slightly different. In her comment she calls Rey “solitary” and says that “that is probably a big clue as to what [her character] is.” Surely this suggest Solo?
Lots of early reports were claiming that she would be playing a character called Kira Solo, the daughter of Han and Leia but nothing had ever been confirmed. Is this even a confirmation? To call it so would be jumping ahead of ourselves but having the actress herself say it does suggest that it isn’t just a rumour anymore.
Thoughts?
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is set for release on December 18th and sees J.J. Abrams directing returning stars Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Harrison Ford (Han Solo), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) in addition to Adam Driver (Girls), Oscar Isaac (A Most Violent Year), Andy Serkis (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina), John Boyega (Attack the Block), Daisy Ridley (Silent Witness), Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave), Miltos Yerolemou (Game of Thrones), Max von Sydow (The Exorcist), Jessica Henwick (Spirit Warriors), Christina Chong (24: Live Another Day) and newcomers Crystal Clarke and Pip Andersen.
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Brian Kurtz says
Well….Anakin was solitary too. Solitary with no dad.
BigNoseDog says
And no acting school.
Kal-El-1983 says
Well the new in canon Comics do show that Han was married before he met leia.
Nicholas Perry says
Yeah, but she’d be far too old then.
Kal-El-1983 says
not necessarily. It’s possible they are not planning on making Han and Leia a couple..or at least a long term couple… Han goes back to his first wife..boom has Rey. Speculation of course…
Nicholas Perry says
If only Jaina Solo
BlahBlahBlah says
Kira Rey, and Kylo Ren Solo…
Jon says
I just can’t stand the poor grammar by “writers” these days. It’s not “to who” but “to WHOM.” It’s not “who is playing who,” but rather, “who is playing WHOM.” What is so hard about this? Where were these “writers” educated? #facepalm
Gaviano says
Oh dear… hey man guess what, writers aren’t robots. Sometimes little grammatical errors slip through. It happens from time to time. I’ll be sure to run my next article by you first next time, thanks buddy!
Bell Catkins says
The only good force users known (and it seems unlikely that spirit Yoda wouldn’t know if there were more) to be surviving after Return are Luke and Leia. Given that Han and Leia are a couple at the end of that trilogy and Luke seems to be going down a more solitary path like Ben and Yoda, the girl almost has to be Han and Leia’s daughter, and Luke’s niece. I don’t know why the movie company thinks it needs to hide this from us. When it looked like Luke might succumb to the dark side, we were told that there was “another” and it was made clear that was Leia (which explained her ability to resist the brain scanner that Vader used on her.)