Every girl does.” Well there’s nothing wrong with a space kiss or two, I suppose. “I’m looking forward to your space kiss,” she told Ridley. Carrie Fisher predicts romance is in the cards. If they’re anything like Rey, they can’t get here soon enough.Īs for Rey herself, well, her future is best left a mystery for now. Felicity Jones will lead upcoming spin-off Rogue One, while actresses Tatiana Maslany and Gina Rodriguez have auditioned for roles in Episode VIII. Actresses Gwendoline Christie and Lupita Nyong’o were hired after that iconic black-and-white cast photo was taken.īut the Star Wars franchise has plans for even more women to join the fight in that galaxy far, far away. The initial Force Awakens casting announcement was so light on the female roles, it prompted headlines like “ Hey Star Wars - Where the Hell Are the Women?,” which may have, in turn, influenced the decision to transform Captain Phasma and, rumor has it, Maz Kanata into female characters. (No cringe-worthy “ Are you an angel?” scene in sight.) And Rey is never subjected to the costume-based indignities that greeted the Star Wars women before her. (The somewhat smaller audience that fell in love with The Clone Wars and Ahsoka Tano may be be familiar with the feeling.) Though newcomer Daisy Ridley is no less beautiful than Natalie Portman or Carrie Fisher before her, her appearance is never commented on in the film. There’s nothing wrong with being a love interest, but it’s refreshing for fans of the Star Wars films to see something different in Rey. And it’s Anakin’s love for Padmé that causes him to fall. It’s Leia’s beauty that draws Luke into his quest and inspires Han to stay. Compelling and sometimes-nuanced love interests they may be, but it’s Luke, Anakin, Han, and Obi-Wan who are the stereotypical heroes of the saga. But for all the virtues of Padmé and her daughter, neither could escape certain tropes of their roles as love interests. He followed her up in the prequels with the commanding Padmé Amidala who-despite her terrible taste in Jedis-managed to take back her own castle by force and wield major influence in the galactic senate. Inspired by the intrepid Dale Arden of the old Flash Gordon serials, George Lucas created Princess Leia for the original Star Wars trilogy: a sassy heroine who knew her way around a blaster. Vague plot discussion for Episode VII below. That’s right, they managed to one-up Princess-beg your pardon-General Leia. But in The Force Awakens we find Rey, the most fully formed and powerful female Star Wars character yet. It would be cool to tell some new stories in this galaxy…but Luke Skywalker showed up in The Book of Boba Fett literally earlier this year, so I’ll believe it when I see it.There’s a grand tradition in the Star Wars franchise of female characters who defy the stereotypical damsel-in-distress role. That’s what’s taking a lot of time, discussion, and thought right now. But we are moving on from the Skywalker saga. It’s our job to step away now, but still have a connection to the mythology that George created. Just staying within the construct of storytelling, to keep chipping away at that, I think would be wrong. Speaking to Vanity Fair, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy recently said that they’re looking to leave behind the Skywalker saga: Might Dathan and Miramir ever show up onscreen again? That’s hard to tell. In a new excerpt, it’s revealed that the names of Rey’s parents are Dathan and Miramir.ĭathan is the dad and Miramir the mother, if you were wondering it’s not always clear with these names from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. For instance, what were their names? That question is answered in the new Star Warsnovel Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher. Then we found out in The Last Jedi that they were “no one”…but then we found out in The Rise of Skywalker that her dad was actually the son of Emperor Palatine (or rather an imperfect clone of him, to be specific), which makes her related to the greatest force of evil in the galaxy.Īnd through it all, we learned very little about Rey’s parents. At first we heard that Rey (Daisy Ridley) was abandoned by her parents as a child, presumably because they had some secret we would learn in later installments. The Star Wars sequel trilogy was famous for making up the story as it went along.
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