Star Wars' Daisy Ridley clarifies those quit reports
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is less than a fortnight away from release and the whole gang are out on the road to promote the film, including star Daisy Ridley.
The Rey actress recently explained that after she's finished with the as-yet unnamed Episode IX, she doesn't expect the character to move over to Rian Johnson's spinoff trilogy.
"No. For me, I didn't really know what I was signing on to," she said of joining the series.
"I hadn't read the script, but from what I could tell, it was really nice people involved, so I was just like, 'Awesome'."
Somehow, that got spun into Daisy distancing herself from the Star Wars universe faster than the Millennium Falcon going into hyperspace.
"When I did sign up I did sign up for three films," she later said to PA in LA
"That's where I sort of saw the story ending, [The Force Awakens director] JJ [Abrams] said the same thing.
"I think everyone has perhaps taken that as me going, 'I don't want anything to do with it' which is vastly untrue because this is awesome."
And if you go back and read Daisy's words from the first time around, it all adds up.
"I think I am even luckier than I knew then, to be part of something that feels so like coming home now," she had said.
"I am really, really excited to do the third thing and round it out, because ultimately, what I was signing on to was three films.
"So in my head, it's three films. I think it will feel like the right time to round it out."
And even in that interview, Daisy hadn't completely ruled out a return some day.
"Who knows? I honestly feel like the world may end in the next 30 years, so, if in 30 years we are not living underground in a series of interconnected cells... then sure. Maybe," she said.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi finally hits UK cinemas on December 14 and US cinemas on December 15.
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