New Entertainment Weekly Interview with Daisy Ridley

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Entertainment Weekly has published a new interview with Daisy Ridley in which she gives us some background on her life and her career, and talks briefly about her experiences in becoming a new part of the Star Wars universe.

 

 

With the new trio of leads in The Force Awakens having received their first big official public introduction at Celebration last week, we’re beginning to see more interviews with them in which they discuss the new film. Well… interviews in which they at least discuss the film beyond things like “It’s really exciting to be part of Star Wars” or “Yeah, I heard the rumor that I’m in Star Wars too.”

 

Entertainment Weekly caught up with Daisy Ridley at Celebration and she chatted with them about growing up in London and how she got into the acting business. And, of course, she also dished up a few tidbits about what it’s been like to take her “first steps into a much larger world.”

 

 

Rey and Finn on Jakku

 

EW: I know there’s not much you’re permitted to disclose about the plot of the film. But can you say which was your personal favorite location while making The Force Awakens?

 

Ridley: Weirdly enough, probably Abu Dhabi, even though it was so hot, it was like you literally can’t imagine that heat. The feeling of stepping onto a real set for the first time, it genuinely was a baptism of fire. To see creatures walking around and speeders chilling in the sand, that was amazing, and because I was shooting there, it was like everything had built up to that moment. So a few days in, I was like, OK. I’m getting my groove now.

 

EW: This fan convention is really your big coming out party. A first chance for them to meet you, and vice versa. Carrie Fisher says she tried to brace you. Was it what you expected?

 

Ridley: I didn’t think of it like that until dinner last night when somebody mentioned how many people might be watching. [Laughs.] It was so cool to be part of a film that is loved so much, and then to be able to launch in that sphere with just fans and people who love what we’re doing and are so excited about what’s going to come in December, that was the best way to come out, as it were.

 

 

Daisy and Carrie

 

The full interview is definitely worth a read, and you can find it HERE.

 

 

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145 thoughts on “New Entertainment Weekly Interview with Daisy Ridley

  • April 25, 2015 at 10:53 pm
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    Both her and Jon’s celebrity are about to blow the f*ck up

    • April 25, 2015 at 10:59 pm
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      Big time.

  • April 25, 2015 at 11:11 pm
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    Where is that frame of them running form explosions from? John is pointing at something…. But I can’t see that frame in the trailer

    • April 25, 2015 at 11:22 pm
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      Good catch! I just grabbed that image through Google Images because I thought it was the most dynamic frame from that shot that I could find. It came from http://www.news.com.au/.

      But you’re right. On closer inspection it’s not from the teaser. Judging by the position of the TIE fighter, I’d say that it must be a frame from just after the portion of that shot that was included in the teaser.

      Where http://www.news.com.au/ got this frame, I don’t have the faintest idea. It didn’t appear in the article to which Google Images had it connected.

      • April 26, 2015 at 1:00 am
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        Lucasfilm released a bunch of high quality 4k resolutions shots from clips in the teaser.

        • April 26, 2015 at 1:51 am
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          That must be where it originated. Thanks! ;^)

    • April 26, 2015 at 5:33 am
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      yeah he is pointing at something.

      • April 26, 2015 at 10:07 pm
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        The shock on his face as he’s pointing gives it away. “Look! Over there, it’s Jar Jar Binks!”.

  • April 25, 2015 at 11:27 pm
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    Anyone else think she looks like Keira Knightley in that first pic?

    • April 25, 2015 at 11:37 pm
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      Viral Hide and I were JUST talking about that a little while ago. Yeah, I think that Daisy has a very Keira Knightley-ish look about her.

      She’s definitely got her own thing going on too, though. Very attractive, and I’m really looking forward to seeing her acting chops.

      • April 26, 2015 at 4:48 pm
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        Meh. I’ve seen more attractive women in sci fi. Daisy is actually rather unimpressive.

        • April 26, 2015 at 11:53 pm
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          Maybe that’s why her codename is “Kira” on set lol

    • April 26, 2015 at 2:27 am
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      Yep. Awhile ago.

    • April 26, 2015 at 10:09 pm
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      She talks like her, too.

  • April 25, 2015 at 11:37 pm
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    I am the only one who is not convinced by John Boyega in the 2 teasers ?

    • April 25, 2015 at 11:51 pm
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      I love his acting in the “OMG what’s happening ?” part. Very very intense. Like we haven’t seen much in all the SW movies.

    • April 26, 2015 at 4:19 am
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      Nope you are right but you cannot say anything wrong about him otherwise you are racist. If John was any other race / creed I would still say he looks crap. Plus yeah I have seen Attack of The Block, one word epitomises his performance. PATHETIC!!!

      I just hope people like myself and others are allowed to have a honest view without been labelled discriminative.

      • April 26, 2015 at 5:01 am
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        dude chill..i get where your coming from.

      • April 26, 2015 at 6:36 am
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        U r completely full of crap. Does he even have single line in either or the trailers? And yet u can tell that he is giving a bad performance. Bull shit

    • April 26, 2015 at 5:15 am
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      dude really?

    • April 26, 2015 at 5:28 am
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      no your not.

    • April 26, 2015 at 5:50 am
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      FINALLY there’s a Daisy Ridley interview. It only took them, what, one year after she was cast to finally speak publicly?

    • April 26, 2015 at 1:09 pm
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      On the very contrary! His acting in the first trailer is just brillant. In five seconds, with just his body language you could feel how the man was lost, panicked, but determined to get out of here asap.
      In the second trailer, the shot when he takes his helmet off is only 2 seconds, but it was enough to understand he was both sad and shocked at that moment.

      Given how cheerful he looks in interviews, he seems to be the kind of actors who can perform a wide range of different emotions, which should make his character very lovable and interesting. I can’t wait.

    • April 27, 2015 at 5:10 pm
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      Well, his character is likely the ‘fish out of water’ character that gets introduced to this conspiracy force awakening thing, so he’s supposed to be surprised and out of his element (panicked).

      He’s doing the job. We don’t really know what else is in store for Finn.

  • April 25, 2015 at 11:37 pm
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    Why does people assure Boyega’s gonna fail? Many people loves him already from Attack of the Block. Frankly, that shot in the teaser where he takes out the bloody helmet is at the level of Ewan’s “you were the chosen one”, one of the very few performances that worked in the prequels.

    I like Boyega.

    • April 25, 2015 at 11:49 pm
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      RotS was the only Ewan performance in the prequels that I found mediocre.. the dynamic between him and Hayden was truly cringeworthy

      • April 26, 2015 at 12:51 am
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        Agreed. What the hell happened in that film? Ewan McGregor, an otherwise pretty good actor, seemed to have had enough of his career and just flushed it away with his performance. And as for Sam Jackson…. Words fail me. The only consistently decent and believable performances in the PT era were Yoda and General Grievous, and they were mo-cap CGI. That says a lot.

        Incidentally, before all the trolls get their “Oh look, another PT-basher!” t-shirts on, I actually quite liked aspects of the PT, I just hated the standard of the acting and the terrible quality dialogue. Oh, and Jar-Jar, but I figured that was a given. 😛

        • April 26, 2015 at 1:32 am
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          Honestly, the script didn’t do the actors any favors. ROTS is the prequel film that makes me cringe the least of the three, but there was still too much of an element of checking off boxes on a list of plot points, and very often the dialogue seemed to fall victim to a tendency to “tell, not show.”

          There was also a good bit of the overall plot of ROTS that was cut out (fairly late in the process, as I understand it) in order to bring the focus almost entirely down to Anakin and his fear of Padme dying. In the process, most of the storylines about Anakin suspecting the Jedi of plotting against the Republic and Obi Wan plotting to seduce Padme were cut.

          That, of course, removed a lot of the sources of tension between Anakin and Obi Wan, but in some cases bits and pieces of the expression of that tension remained in the film, and there were times when Ewan (and Hayden too) seemed like they were reacting to stuff that hadn’t actually happened.

          The “I have failed you Anakin” scene on Mustafar had some of this, as it seems to have originally been intended to be the payoff for the mostly eliminated subplot about Anakin’s suspicions of the Jedi. But since there wasn’t much of that in the final film, we’ve got Obi Wan and Anakin yelling at each other about whether or not the Jedi were trying to take over the Republic, and it seems overblown and out of place without the earlier setup.

          All things considered, I thought Ewan did fine with what he was given to work with.

          • April 26, 2015 at 5:53 am
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            Personally, I thought there was too much sneaking around the death star in episode IV but that’s just me and I’m sure I”ll be bashed for saying it.

          • April 26, 2015 at 11:42 am
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            Ok well.. that is a really good point that I did not know about.. but overall I don’t think Hayden was capable of the gravitas Vader required

          • April 26, 2015 at 5:48 pm
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            Who then ? I think he matches the role.

          • April 27, 2015 at 5:17 pm
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            Nobody. The role was poorly written and poorly edited from what scenes were written and edited out appears.

            Hayden’s not a terrible actor. He would have played the skeptical, cynical and more intelligent Anakin, but instead we got some babyfaced caricature that Hayden Christensen wasn’t ready for.

            I actually think MacGregor was as good as it was going to get considering the dialogue. But him, and Liam Neeson, were seasoned actors who probably worked with mediocre scripts before.

            Hayden was fine in scenes with Palpatine (especially one or two that were cut from the film that show his growing skepticism about the Jedi’s relationship with the executive). But pivotal scene where he turns, ugh, that was just written comically instead of tragically. Can’t even blame him there.

            And I like his more intelligent Anakin – the one that teases Padme in that otherwise awful picnic scene and especially the one that deconstructs the Jedi’s dogma on love and compassion. But both those scenes devolve into crap, unfortunately.

          • April 27, 2015 at 1:55 pm
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            Obi WAN seducing Padmé ? This i never heard before , was that à sidious/palpatine plan? Please tell more !!! 🙂

    • April 26, 2015 at 5:51 am
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      Perrymoon’s daily “I-hate-the-prequel” comment all done. Now you can move on to chores and making breakfast.

      • April 26, 2015 at 12:05 pm
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        Haha, not ready for breakfast. Let”s talk about Jakku being Tatooine!

        Kidding, I’m gonna toast some bread.

        Anyway, you’ll never see acomment of mine saying “I hate the prequels”, but yes, I don’t like some aspects of them, and with a new trilogy on the way, the comparison with the last films released is obvious.

      • April 26, 2015 at 12:31 pm
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        That is hilarious ;D

  • April 25, 2015 at 11:39 pm
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    I think Boyega is going to do just fine in this role. He’s a good actor, and I’m starting to get the feeling that he’s got a cool script and character to work with in TFA.

    I’m sure not seeing whatever it is that the naysayers are seeing.

    • April 25, 2015 at 11:46 pm
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      Agreed. He’s gonna knock it out the park

    • April 26, 2015 at 1:02 am
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      He overacts. Exaggerated facial expressions and whatnot. It comes off as contrived. It’s not a big mystery.

      • April 26, 2015 at 3:25 am
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        Enough with the over Act’s already SW’s has swathes of over acting OT AND PT have ample examples so rewind a little dude.

      • April 26, 2015 at 4:51 am
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        so you’ve acted in films before?

      • April 27, 2015 at 5:20 pm
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        Have you watched Mark Hamill in the original movie?

        The only subtlety he shows is in the Death Star trench. Boyega is good enough to pull that performance off. And I wager he will be even better going forward, just as Hamill was in Empire.

    • April 26, 2015 at 4:13 am
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      “I’m sure not seeing whatever it is that the naysayers are seeing.”

      Take a wild guess.

    • April 26, 2015 at 11:57 pm
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      Why exactly is everybody bashing on him already if the movie hasn’t even come out yet…?

  • April 25, 2015 at 11:43 pm
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    Guess she is the new chin actress then.

  • April 25, 2015 at 11:44 pm
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    Have to agree with Dekka. I think he’s doing the intense/panic/anxious thing well. And in fairness, we haven’t even heard them deliver any lines so relax peeps.

  • April 26, 2015 at 12:02 am
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    I will start to ban IPs if the skin color debate starts again.

    • April 26, 2015 at 12:09 am
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      Thank you, Viral Hide.

    • April 26, 2015 at 12:35 am
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      This is no joke but I have an addictive personality. Seriously I was gonna try contact the site admins and ask for an IP ban, really honestly no messin.

      Not for doing anything wrong of course, nothing to do with that. Purely for addiction purposes only. I`m visiting this site way too much and getting too deep into it. And taking it too seriously. Blocking it myself won`t work cause I`ll be tempted to bypass it. I should be doing way more productive things with my time. Seems sad, but an addictive personality maybe other people can relate to it also.

      If I can`t cut down can I ask for it ? Right now I really hate proxys 🙁

      • April 26, 2015 at 1:09 am
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        “Control, control… You must learn Control!” – you know very well who said that.

    • April 26, 2015 at 1:16 am
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      Yes thank you.

    • April 26, 2015 at 3:18 am
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      anyone who criticizes black people for any reason is obviously racist.

      • April 26, 2015 at 7:33 am
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        No but saying a black person should not be in Star Wars because they are black is racist. And that exact position has been stated on this website numerous times. And If you do not share that opinion u should really think about who you aligning yourself with. Because that is the stated feeling of at least a few of the John boyega haters posting on this site

    • April 26, 2015 at 5:31 am
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      oh my god thank you,I just wanna talk about star wars.

    • April 26, 2015 at 6:56 am
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      Thanx viral.

  • April 26, 2015 at 12:12 am
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    Nobody said anything about color, Viral.

    • April 26, 2015 at 12:35 am
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      1.) Yes, somebody did and their comment was removed.

      2.) This issue is not up for debate. We make a very honest and concerted effort to avoid micromanaging posts here, and to encourage free and open discussion. But racist and sexist commenting and similar nonsense like that has absolutely no place here, and our staff will not tolerate it.

      • April 27, 2015 at 2:21 pm
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        Has there been à skincolor debate ? I am glad i somehow missed It . Especially since star wars is the most diverse filmuniverse when It comes to culture & races/aliens .. I think it seems like both Daisy & John fits in & Will do à good job & i like that They both look à little odd, that is star wars for me, It is like real life, nothing is perfect . It Would be very strange to see à perfectly styled supermodell in star wars. I think the both have à LOt of charisma, so i have good hopes for their performances 🙂

    • April 27, 2015 at 5:23 pm
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      Irrelevant.

      Prejudice is most damning and destructive when it appears insidiously, in the most subtle ways. And we’re all smart enough to point it out and report it if need be.

  • April 26, 2015 at 12:17 am
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    My issue with Boyega is that he’s not attractive or charismatic and I don’t think Ridley is much better. I remain open to be won over by great story, chemistry and performance, however.

    • April 26, 2015 at 12:55 am
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      Holler!

      • April 26, 2015 at 5:09 am
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        wow…just wow.

    • April 26, 2015 at 6:15 am
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      I can’t really comment on Boyega’s attractiveness or lack there of, but he is definitely charismatic.

      • April 26, 2015 at 6:26 pm
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        Barack Obama is charismatic. Billy Dee Williams is charismatic. Harrison Ford is charismatic, Carrie Fisher is charismatic and even Mark Hamill has more charisma then anything I have seen from Boyega.

        He just seems like an average guy that would be fun to hang out with but nothing that inspires attention.

        • April 27, 2015 at 5:30 pm
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          Please note that all the people you mentioned are Americans.

          Boyega is Nigerian-Anglo. I’m very sure that cultural notions of charisma are very different.

          And I imagine Boyega as VERY similar to Mark Hamill in 1977. We are informed of Hamill’s ‘charisma’ after years of listening to him as the Joker and after seeing him beat Darth Vader.

    • April 26, 2015 at 7:36 am
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      God forbid an actor should get hired who you don’t find attractive.

    • April 26, 2015 at 11:01 am
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      He’s not the hollywood type, that’s for sure, but that is what makes the character really interesting to me. His face is very expressive and I think it will fit in a film like this. Again, the shot where he releases his helmet gives me hope. In the other hand, I like the contrast between him and Ridley, they are phisically opposite in many senses. Always found Anakin / ObiWan quite boring as a heroe duo: both guys could be brothers and they were dressing very similar.

      • April 27, 2015 at 5:55 am
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        disagree.

    • April 26, 2015 at 1:41 pm
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      Than watch starship troopers instead. that’s loaded with ken and Barbie dolls.of course the acting and movie sucked.

      • April 26, 2015 at 6:28 pm
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        Or I could just watch any of the other Star Wars movies.

      • April 26, 2015 at 10:27 pm
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        Starship Troopers was a brilliant syfy movie. Even today, it stands the test of time, and is an enjoyable, action-packed movie.
        Go pick on the prequels!

  • April 26, 2015 at 12:17 am
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    After reading the whole interview, I must say, that last line from her might be a giveaway.

    I am referring to where she says ” I’m lying low for a while, hoping that other cool stories about cool young women come along.” Maybe I’m reading too far into it, but that makes it sound like Rey is the lead of the movie, because she is saying that the film is ABOUT the woman she plays, not just there to help Poe or Finn on their heroes journey.

    Again, I might be a little paranoid, but it just sounds like she might have accidentally told us Rey is the hero of the sequel trilogy.

    • April 26, 2015 at 12:33 am
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      Why are you paranoid about a female lead in the upcoming Star Wars Trilogy? I think it’s great!

      • April 26, 2015 at 5:08 am
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        I get where your going with this.

      • April 27, 2015 at 3:39 am
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        Nah, sorry for coming off that way, I REALLY want her to be the new lead!! Maybe ‘paranoid’ was the wrong word XD I just don’t want to get my hopes up

    • April 26, 2015 at 1:10 am
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      I noticed that too. To say the force awakens is ‘about’ her is pretty strong. Or a jumbled wording. I’ve always wanted her to be the lead, so fingers crossed. Although I think it’s safe to say John is the lead. They haven’t made it clear though. I hope we don’t go back to the prequel style thing where qui-gon/obi-wan are the main characters of the film yet supposedly it’s Anakin. Then for the next two films Anakin and Obi-wan have equal share of the story, yet Anakin is supposed to be the lead.. It mean it’s extremely clear in the OT that Luke is the main hero.

      • April 26, 2015 at 1:23 am
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        Lucas in the movie commentary said that he used that Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan characters in The Phantom Meance for the same function as R2-D2 and C-3PO in A New Hope. The story was not about them.

        The main character is who the story is /about/. It’s not the word count in a book or script or screen time that determines this. In the event of multiple characters, it’s who is the most ultimately important. Anakin and Luke get all the family drama which marks them as the most important characters in their trilogies for example. Obi-Wan and Padme are there for Anakin’s story. The Anakin character isn’t there to tell one of the other characters stories. The story of the prequels is the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker. The “life and times of Anakin Skywalker”.

        The future…

        http://imgur.com/lEaXxS7

        http://imgur.com/uZmpmew

        • April 26, 2015 at 4:26 am
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          “Lucas in the movie commentary said that he used that Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan characters in The Phantom Meance for the same function as R2-D2 and C-3PO in A New Hope. The story was not about them.”

          Regardless, Qui-Gon had received way too much focus and screen time for someone who isn’t the protagonist.

          As a result, Anakin and Obi-Wan are under-developed as characters and as friends. (Lack of screen time + a poor script that didn’t allow us to really get to know these characters.)

          • April 27, 2015 at 6:16 pm
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            Agreed. Big failure. Obi-Wan has no friendship with Anakin in the prequels. It just didn’t convince anybody. I just feel bad for Hayden Christensen.

    • April 26, 2015 at 10:36 pm
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      She could be the main protagonist, all right.
      But that may not have been JJ/Kennedy’s original intention, as apparently she was only signed on for all three sequels half way through shooting. So, she must have made a huge impression on them, if indeed she is the new ‘Luke Skywalker’.

  • April 26, 2015 at 12:44 am
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    Sorry for unrelated post… but just FYI for anyone who doesn’t know… the new film “Ex Machina” is pretty decent sci fi & stars Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron) & Donhmall Gleeson, they both get a lot of screen time as they are pretty much the only characters in the film… so you get to see what they are capable of together.

    What’s interesting is that Gleeson is Irish, but he does a pretty good american accent in the film.

    • April 26, 2015 at 1:13 am
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      I watched About Time knowing nothing about him and his accent was spot on I just assumed he was british. I didn’t know he was Irish until much later. If it’s correct that Dohnall is playing the imperial commander, I imagine he will do a British accent.

    • April 26, 2015 at 10:49 pm
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      Describing Ex_Machina as “pretty decent” is akin to describing Daniel Day-Lewis or Lionel Messi as ‘pretty decent’!
      Ex_Machina is already an emerging cult classic.

  • April 26, 2015 at 1:13 am
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    Rey of Light.

    • April 26, 2015 at 1:17 am
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      “Kira” = “ray or beam of light”

    • April 26, 2015 at 4:28 am
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      El Rey Leonis.

  • April 26, 2015 at 1:17 am
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    I want to see Boyega and Ridley become a couple.

    • April 26, 2015 at 4:18 pm
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      They will show them kissing in episode VIII and in episode IX there will be great reveal that they are in fact siblings (spoiler alert).

  • April 26, 2015 at 1:25 am
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    This is only an online interview. In the latest issue of EW, the May 1st issue with the Mad max cover, there is an actual article about the cast getting together the night before SW Celebration. It is a fantastic read with great pictures of the cast to boost.

  • April 26, 2015 at 1:51 am
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    @ Viral Hide

    Don’t delete or ban what I’m about to say, for, I, like yourself and the rest of SW7N’s staff and the legions of level-headed, unbigoted and non-racist fans are not interested in fanning the flames of racial hatred and intolerance in the fandom of the GFFA.

    With that being said, I am a person of color and I have to admit that I, too, haven’t been the most convinced about what they’ve shown of Boyega’s acting so far. Granted, we haven’t heard any dialogue yet, but, acting is just as much about body-language and mannerism(s) as it is about spoken dialogue (and facial expression). In the scenes that have been shown so far, it just seems like Boyega is going out of his way to seem convincing. Now, that could have more to do with the way Finn has been written and the way he was directed, but still it looks as if he is on some “Look! I was born for this role, Dammit! And you’d better believe it!” type of thing, and it really can come across as very put-off’ish. It’s like he’s over-compensating for being an “unexpected” lead in a very significantly popular lore and franchise.

    Still, a lot of this negative reacting could be, in large part, due to a sub-conscience, psychosomatic response based on inner-anxieties related to preconditioned expectations. A person goes into their observation of something, nervously reserved, and possibly with preconceived low expectations, and, when said expectations are seemingly met, those fears become magnified inordinately and blown way out of proportion automatically.

    I really hope he does well, and that his character becomes one of the most believable and beloved in all of the entire story and franchise, but the reality right now is there simply isn’t enough information available to form a solid opinion. So-called SW fans would do well to keep that in mind.

    • April 26, 2015 at 2:31 am
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      Enough of the anti-British prejudice already. Boyega is an excellent actor and no-one can say he’s overacting until they know what it is he’s reacting to. JJ obviously wanted him to act like that or it wouldn’t be in both trailers…

      • April 26, 2015 at 2:43 am
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        ^^^ Re-read that post above yours. Nowhere in it was Boyega’s British background ever mentioned or even implied.

        Me thinks you reach much….

      • April 26, 2015 at 2:49 am
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        I didn’t see a bit of anti-British bias in that post. And for the record, despite my concerns about John’s accent, I hold no anti-British bias either. Far from it.

        • April 26, 2015 at 2:34 pm
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          And yet 5 minutes before you posted this you attacked his ‘accent’….

          • April 26, 2015 at 6:10 pm
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            I know what you mean, but I think is due to the scenes we are seeing in the trailer, which are from the beginning of the film, in which the character is in “extreme danger” (boyega’s words). I think this is whyhe gives so much on the acting. I actually find the scenes looking exciting and dangerous.

          • April 26, 2015 at 7:28 pm
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            And I would have the exact same concern if he had, say, a thick-as-molasses Cajun accent. It’s nothing to do with where he’s from, and everything to do with how easily moviegoers will be able to understand his dialogue.

          • April 27, 2015 at 12:04 am
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            You guys really pick away at some of the smallest things, especially for something that hasn’t even come out yet. This is the reason I feel like a lot of people didn’t like the prequels, because unless everything feels the exact same as the original then it’s going to be terrible.

            The whole ‘boyega is a bad actor thing’ is really just going right over my head

    • April 26, 2015 at 2:45 am
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      There is absolutely nothing wrong with criticizing the acting of a Star Wars cast member. I think we’ve all done it (I sure have!) and that’s all part of discussing and debating the films.

      And I know exactly what you mean about Boyega. What little I’ve seen of his performance in TFA seems fine to me, but I can see your concern about false bravado. There is, after all, nothing more uncool than somebody who is trying desperately to come across as cool. ;^)

      Then again, I think a lot of this could be due at least in part to the material the TFA production has chosen to release in the teasers. Every teaser scene with Boyega in it seems connected directly to some “HOLY SHIT!!!” moment for Finn. IMHO, the real test will be what his regular old dialogue scenes are like.

      But yeah, there are always reasons why fans of any franchise will view newcomers with trepidation. Personally, I have to admit to being a bit concerned about John’s accent. It sounds incredibly thick to me and I can’t always understand him as well as I’d like., even though I’ve always had a good ear for dialects and am a fair mimic. But until I hear how he sounds and what accent he affects in TFA, I’m not going to worry about it.

      That’s just the thing – as you point out, we know so little about this movie. We’ve not heard any of the new leads say a word in character other than Poe’s “WOO-HOOOOOOOO!!!” in the last teaser. We’ve no idea how they’re going to come across onscreen, what their chemistry will be, etc.

      Time will tell!

      • April 26, 2015 at 3:37 am
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        “I have to admit to being a bit concerned about John’s accent. It sounds incredibly thick to me and I can’t always understand him as well as I’d like”

        John’s untelligeble. Been saying this for months. Add this to his other “assets” and you really have to wonder just how much crack cocaine JJ smoked the moment before he chose to pass on Jesse Plemmons and the other lead male hopefuls in favor of Boyega.

        Biggest wtf? casting decision in film history, bar-none.

        • April 26, 2015 at 4:38 am
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          “Unintelligible”? “Smoked crack cocaine”? You’ve only seen a few seconds of Boyega, but he’s already the most shocking lead cast of all time?

          Your language is very telling.

        • April 26, 2015 at 4:41 am
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          Gee, not much hyperbole here, eh? ;^)

          The simple fact of the matter is, none of us have the slightest idea of how John is going to do in the role, because we haven’t seen more than a few quick shots of him in the teasers and haven’t heard him utter a word as Finn yet.

          Actors modulate their accents for various roles all the time. Including for Star Wars films.

        • April 26, 2015 at 5:23 am
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          yes!! I can feel your anger!

        • April 26, 2015 at 6:24 am
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          If John is unintelligible to you, you seriously need to travel more. He has a standard East London accent, and he’s changed it before (Attack the Block, 24, and the movie where he did a Nigerian accent). Chances are he will just have a standard London accent in the film.

          Also, what exactly has Plemons done that makes him so much greater then Boyega? He was alright in Breaking Bad, but basically every actor on that show gave a better performance (to his credit, they where all very good actors).

          And what the hell do you mean by “assets”?

    • April 26, 2015 at 5:13 am
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      sure..

  • April 26, 2015 at 3:49 am
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    I think the key to SW movies and the characters is more about their chemistry and whether they ‘play’ their role then their acting. Don’t get me wrong as acting is important, but Ford, Fisher, & Hamill had great chemistry and that played a huge part in the success of the OT. Anakin, Padme & Obiwan had zero chemistry and that had a negative effect on the prequels despite McGregor & Portman being very good actors. Let’s see how the chemistry between Boyega, Ridley, & Isaac on screen together and that will go a long way in how well they resonate with the fans.

    • April 26, 2015 at 4:51 am
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      Absolutely! Chemistry is everything, and that’s why when Lucas was casting ANH he auditioned actors in groups. He knew that the ensemble performance was going to make or break his movie, and he cast it accordingly. I wish he’d done the same thing for the prequels.

      I don’t know if this was how TFA was cast, but I have a feeling that it was not. Most movies aren’t. Then again, a lot of movies end up missing the mark chemistry-wise, so…

      • April 26, 2015 at 11:05 pm
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        I think BB-8 got the part because of the great chemistry he has with R2-D2.

      • April 27, 2015 at 6:20 pm
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        It is so puzzling to me that he didn’t cast in the same way. He made it so clear that it was that exact strategy that landed the original 3 and why it was so important.

        Why did he go away from it so much?

  • April 26, 2015 at 4:30 am
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    Like I said in an earlier post I am not a fan of Boyega. I agree with what others have said, he over acts and tries to act to act cool all the time. However, if we speak out against his performance the race card gets played. Nobody has mentioned his ethnicity, its just his acting because his acting is so bad. I’ve not really seen Daisy Ridley so cannot comment but she is resonating with me more than Boyega at the moment and I barley know the actress.

    • April 26, 2015 at 4:48 am
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      First of all, yes. Boyega’s ethnicity has been mentioned. Those posts have been removed.

      Second of all, nobody’s preventing you or anyone else from criticizing Boyega’s performance – though we’ve seen what, 10-20 seconds of it so far?

      Steer clear of the blatant racism that we’ve been deleting hereabouts, and say whatever you want about Boyega’s performance. Just don’t expect everyone to agree with you, and don’t start hollering about “the race card” when somebody happens to disagree with you.

      • April 26, 2015 at 5:13 am
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        I won’t repeat the words which you have put in quotations as it obviously upset you. But what I will say and I mean this with sincerity. If you pick words or even claim them to be ‘code’ – how can I say this without trying to cause upset too others. Perhaps stop looking for ambiguity in words which are written not to cause offense. If I have I appologise it was never meant to be that way.

        All am trying to say and it is creeping on to the boards too in a very complex matter, that Boyega is been put up on a very high pedestal as some beacon hope which others cannot criticize. That is plainly wrong, if I don’t like someone’s performance I should be able to speak that without been shot down as a racist. I do take offense when people suggest that I am using ‘code words’ when it is completely against my nature to do that. Am sure we can all be mature enough to have a debate on acting and actors without been labelled.

        Again I apologise if caused offense it was never meant to upset anyone

        • April 26, 2015 at 5:16 am
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          Also I was also judging his actions in The Attack of The Block not just his actions in the teasers

        • April 26, 2015 at 5:17 am
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          sure dude what ever.

          • April 26, 2015 at 5:31 am
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            See this ^^^^^

            Exactly what I mean, that attitude is just as much offensive. Looking for things that are not there. Creating argument for arguments sake, twisting and obnoxious. Am going now before I blow and get banned

            Goodnight

        • April 26, 2015 at 5:26 am
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          yeah..right?

        • April 26, 2015 at 5:32 am
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          I think you may need to take your own advice about not taking offense at things that don’t warrant it.

          Did you get a post deleted here in this particular discussion? If not, then I’m not sure what your beef is. I’ll say it again – nobody is telling you that you can’t criticize Boyega’s performance. Go right ahead. just suck it up and deal with it if somebody disagrees with you.

          If you did get a post deleted here, though, then it was deleted because it crossed the line into overt bigotry. We’ve made our position very clear on this. If anyone posts something that crosses that line, they’re going to get their comment deleted. If they continue to do so, especially since the owner of this site already specifically warned against it, then they’re asking to get their IP blocked.

          As I said earlier, this matter is absolutely not up for debate. Anyone who wants to try to push us on this can go and peddle their crap someplace else. I don’t think it’s too much to ask that people conduct themselves in a reasonably civil manner and avoid dragging the tone of discourse here down into the mud with a lot of cheap-ass bigotry.

          Again, if maintaining such a basic standard of behavior is a genuine problem for anyone, then they’re free to move on. The overwhelming majority of the people who post here don’t cause problems over this.

          And let me be clear here, Anon 5:13AM. I am not aiming all of this at you. Hell, if you haven’t been posting stuff that we’ve deleted, then I’m BARELY even addressing you in the first place. Don’t take our policy against bigoted posts as something that it’s not. If your stuff hasn’t been deleted, then you’re not part of the problem.

          • April 26, 2015 at 6:34 am
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            My problem was that I felt people were insinuating that I was using code words. Plus the fact racism goes against my core believes. Im not feeling too good either as I have not any sleep and I am having bad stomach pains, so I am a bit grouchy.

            Forgive me

          • April 26, 2015 at 5:41 pm
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            Hey, if a line on “cheap-ass bigotry” isn’t drawn somewhere, then next thing you know, someone takes someone seriously, gets pissed off, and the article has 130 [and counting] comments that are mostly recycled race baitin’ and hatin’.

            There’s nothing in this world that annoys me more than clicking on a 300-comment article expecting good, noteworthy news – only to find a bunch of cross-firing bulls@#$ that’s only partially based on fact.

            This thread hasn’t been that bad [yet] but as a general rule I think this is reason enough for the Boss to feel entitled to a bit of censorship, if for nothing else, purely for the sake of simplifying internet traffic and saving those of us that expect actual discussion [with “points” and “facts”] a bit of scrolling time.

    • April 26, 2015 at 4:57 am
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      its ok if you use code words.

    • April 26, 2015 at 4:58 am
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      The thing is, it’s WAY too soon to judge John’s performance based on only a few seconds from 2 teasers. And yet, unsurprisingly, a sea of criticism has unleashed itself across the Internet over his acting in TFA. What a coincidence! The one black lead, Star Wars’ first ever, BTW, is causing all this commotion. What is he, Obama?

      While there are those with legitimate concerns over his acting, let’s not be ignorant of the widespread racism that still exists today.

      I didn’t care for Samuel L. Jackson’s performance in the PT, largely because of Lucas’ poor directing, but I waited to see the films before making that call.

      • April 26, 2015 at 5:19 am
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        the world is a stage.

        • April 26, 2015 at 5:40 am
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          when the movie hits cinemas, people are going to be really surprised..

      • April 27, 2015 at 6:24 pm
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        Its pretty simple.

        We have one movie to judge him on. Attack the Block, in which he got very good reviews.

        Until people actually mention that they “didn’t like that performance and therefore…..yadda yadda yadda the Force Awakens” then its basically baseless assumptions born from…I’m not sure. Because there’s nothing else to really judge him on other than he’s getting chased by bad people in the teaser and he’s not happy or comfortable with that….which he appears to be lol

  • April 26, 2015 at 5:29 am
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    I’d love for Rey to be the lead.

    Lucas at one point early in developing Star Wars had considered a lead female instead of Luke Skywalker.
    I’ve always imagined how that may have changed the trilogy…

    • April 26, 2015 at 5:34 am
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      yeah can’t wait for this movie to come out!

  • April 26, 2015 at 6:21 am
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    An article about Daisy Ridley and half the comments are about how much Boyega will suck, despite the fact they we’ve seen a total of 4 images of him in similar situations and not a single piece of dialogue. I guess we are just going to have to get used to it. Shame how quickly people pass judgement.

    • April 26, 2015 at 9:18 am
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      “Shame how quickly people pass judgement.”

      Sounds like a familiar theme.

  • April 26, 2015 at 9:24 am
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    Yeah a whole bunch of racists lurking around here. I have not seen one single bad performance in the teasers. But I’ve seen Attack The Block when it came out and that was the best sf/horror/comedy I’d seen in a long time. Boyega was indeed very good in that movie too.

    • April 26, 2015 at 9:38 am
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      Pretty sure most of the so called “racists” are just non-racist kids and jerks looking to troll the comment section.

    • April 26, 2015 at 10:10 am
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      John Boyega’s career is gonna explode like Ahmed Best’s did after TPM. Gonna be epic.

    • April 26, 2015 at 12:45 pm
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      Never mind this so called debate over the acting abilities of boyega,(he’s a fine young actor in my opinion)my main concern is this floating lightsabre in space scenario!??! What the fuck is that all about?

  • April 26, 2015 at 10:11 am
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    She’s definitely interesting casting, I’ll grant them that much. She certainly looks like she could be Jake Lloyd’s and Natalie Portman’s granddaughter.

  • April 26, 2015 at 11:11 am
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    Hey Daisy, if you not doing anything tonight, please reply. It may be to soon, but “I love you”

  • April 26, 2015 at 11:22 am
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    So Daisy’s great uncle was Arnold Ridley his character was private Godfrey in Dad’s Army that’s pretty cool 🙂

  • April 26, 2015 at 5:11 pm
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    Does anybody remember the name of that tv show where Daisy was nude on the operating table?

    • April 26, 2015 at 9:13 pm
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      Silent Witness

  • April 26, 2015 at 5:59 pm
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    I’m not 100 percent certain about John Boyega as a Star Wars actor, but that doesn’t worry me.
    The important thing to remember about Star Wars is that it doesn’t necessarily require an actor that would conventionally be considered “good”.
    Carrie Fisher hasn’t been in that much since [Fisher+Bazooka -vs- Blues Brothers / building will always be a one of my life’s highlights though], not to discredit her as an actor, however I will point out that her acting in Star Wars was pretty wooden at some points such as the Blockade Runner with Darth Vader as well as the “I’m your Brother” scene.
    Judging off of these scenes she’s a bad actor.
    HOWEVER, her acting getting rescued by a drug-smuggler and unemployed 19-year-old was Spot On. She perfectly fit in a Star Wars film.

    Same goes for Harrison Ford. The whole sequence on Endor where Han gets his gun confiscated by Ewoks was a truly horrible scene, in every way EXCEPT for the EWOKS, the Ewoks played their part perfectly, Han was acting very un-Han, like seriously, he appears to have personality altering brain damage from the Carbonite.

    Also Luke was in some was a one-note, which, as it happens, was PERFECT for the character.

    I guess what I’m saying is that Star Wars is a different play-ground than most other films. “Good actor” “bad actor” – these are just words, words in an illiterate Movie-verse where little details like that have a different meaning.

    Sure Boyega seems to look universally “WTF?” about everything but we are talking about a collective 30 seconds here, that’s like saying Luke’s character sucks because he spends 20 minutes whining, which, is sorta true. But we won’t know how things pan out until the fat horse shits.

    NO ONE PREDICTS STAR WARS. NO ONE.

  • April 26, 2015 at 6:06 pm
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    Well, I have a feeling that Episode II and III suffered from Darth Bad Acting, especially Episode II. Whereas Darth Very Good Acting made many scenes much better.

  • April 26, 2015 at 10:57 pm
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    Regarding the John Boyega “controversy”…

    An urban black youth being thrown into the mix of the GFFA is a strange combination indeed.

    The two will probably go together about as well as fish and ice cream.

    “Tell the haters….they were riiiight.”

    • April 27, 2015 at 6:04 pm
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      What?

      What about an “urban black youth” which screams stereotype and prejudice, makes it weird in Star Wars? There’s no urban youth in the entire galaxy?

      Its actually refreshing.

  • April 27, 2015 at 12:26 am
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    She’s cute. Got nice little A cups too

  • April 27, 2015 at 2:22 am
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    Daisy Ridley is a Goddess…

    • April 27, 2015 at 5:58 am
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      yeah she’s pretty hot.

      • April 27, 2015 at 1:32 pm
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        To be honest, she’s the sort of woman I could easily walk past and never give a second look at. She’s actually not that impressive, looks-wise.

        Now Summer Glau, on the other hand… she is DEFINITELY a goddess! And an awesome actress to boot. I could see her in a Star Wars film. Pity it ain’t happening.

  • April 27, 2015 at 5:36 pm
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    Phasma is an alias used by Darth Plagueis? And people ragged on Cyborg Luke. That was almost believable in comparison christ

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