Meet Young Rey from Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

Cailey 02Meet Hollywood newcomer, 8-year-old Picayune native Cailey Fleming who played young Rey in the Forceback vision that Daisy Ridley’s character experiences in Maz Kanata’s castle basement.

 

Back in June 2015, one of our notable Cantina members MagnarTheGreat, alerted me that there was an audition happening at Paramount Pictures (Bad Robot moved to Paramount in 2006) in California for an untitled J.J. Abrams movie. By that time several child actors had posted on Instagram and Twitter about their experience HERE, HERE and HERE.

 

At that time I thought this audition was for one of the upcoming Paramount projects that J.J. Abrams was producing. It didn’t make sense since the audition happened in June, and we know that the movie wrapped filming in November 2014.

 

CaileyNow a new interview with the girl who plays young Rey in the movie suggests that these auditions were probably indeed for The Force Awakens.

 

From Picayuneitem:

Cailey said she was excited when she discovered she had booked  film. However, she didn’t find out it was a Star Wars film until she arrived on set in California. “It was fun and we filmed at the headquarters on the roof,” Cailey said. “I wore war clothes and had makup on my arms to make it look like I was in the desert. I met Daisy Ridley, who was really nice. The Director, J.J. Abrams was super nice and he sent me to Disneyland. Every time we did a scene he would yell “cut” and bring strawberries.”

 

Young Rey
Last Thursday, surrounded by family and friends, Cailey saw herself on the big screen for the first time.
“Before I saw my face, you could hear my voice, so I knew when my part was coming and then my face came on the big screen,” she said. “I was excited. It’s a good movie and people should see it.”

PluttWe caught a quick glimpse of young Rey in the movie when she was carried away by Unkar Plutt while her parents were flying away from Jakku.

 

Since young Rey was never mentioned in the leaked shooting schedule, Alan Dean Foster’s novel, and the junior novel, and considering the late audition in June, we can conclude that this character was a very late addition to the story.

 

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38 thoughts on “Meet Young Rey from Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

  • January 17, 2016 at 7:41 pm
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    corrupting kids with strawberries and disneyland tours

    • January 17, 2016 at 7:59 pm
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      You can probably expect to this little girl in some stupid Disney Channel show within the next five years.

      • January 17, 2016 at 8:03 pm
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        Doubt that, this girl has already surpassed that level :p

        • January 18, 2016 at 7:02 pm
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          They gonna use her in future Rey flashback scenes, in every movie will be a scene showing Rey in the age the actress is in, she is signed for 6 movies

          Unfortunately when she becomes adult Disney will have to kill her

      • January 18, 2016 at 6:06 pm
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        Disney Channel shows… yuck. too bad rebel’s is tecnically a disney XD channel show

  • January 17, 2016 at 7:54 pm
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    Might be one of the changes/additions requested by Rian Johnson.

    • January 18, 2016 at 7:01 pm
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      why is that? people keep saying that and i don’t understand why, why this didn’t come from JJ or wouldn’t be in the movie regardless of Rian?

  • January 17, 2016 at 7:56 pm
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    It`s interesting how and when they decided to shoot this.

    I assume it came at the request of Rian Johnson – I cant think of any other reason why they would shoot it that late in post-production.

    • January 17, 2016 at 7:58 pm
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      Probably.

  • January 17, 2016 at 8:43 pm
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    Young Rey had way more convincing acting chops than that piece of wood currently cast as Superman.

  • January 17, 2016 at 8:52 pm
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    First time we ever see the child version of a character and their older selves within the same film. I’d like to see this done with some of the OT ones like they did in Antman.

    • January 17, 2016 at 9:00 pm
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      The de-aging done in Antman was truly impressive. I wouldn’t mind them doing the same with Luke at some point to start filling in the gaps between Jedi and TFA.

      • January 17, 2016 at 10:05 pm
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        I thought that’s why Mark Hamill supposedly shot another scene the day after he shaved at the end of the TFA shoot. But now I don’t know how true that was and of/of it was just scrapped.

      • January 17, 2016 at 10:09 pm
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        Here we have the Han Solo movie sorted then! No need to cast anyone!

        • January 17, 2016 at 10:43 pm
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          God do you know how expensive that would be? Lol but it would surely be the best thing they can do

      • January 17, 2016 at 11:22 pm
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        They might wait till XI to do it since it’s probably pretty expensive and time consuming now but will be less so in a few years. Huge leap over the crappy job in Tron Legacy with Jeff Bridges. So it can only get better over time, I’d like to see an entire film done that with if it all possible,

        • February 3, 2016 at 1:51 pm
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          Yes because it’s well known Star wars has a limited budget!

          • February 4, 2016 at 7:17 am
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            Unlike megacorporation Disney, Lucasfilm could afford to be reckless with it’s budget. Why do you think Rebels looks so much cheaper than TCW and the merchandise for TFA is so much more chinzier han we got during the PT?

      • January 18, 2016 at 3:03 pm
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        I’m sure it can be done, and they certainly have some of the best in the biz working on these films.

  • January 18, 2016 at 4:47 am
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    Her 3 seconds on screen was the best child-actor performance in the Star Wars saga to date.

    • January 18, 2016 at 5:12 am
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      She took the title from that kid on Cloud City!

    • January 18, 2016 at 5:50 am
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      The sad thing is that is not, in any way, an exaggeration.

      • January 18, 2016 at 7:55 pm
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        Daniel Logan was the worst

    • January 18, 2016 at 7:54 pm
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      *slow clap

    • January 18, 2016 at 8:17 pm
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      Come on, doesn’t Warwick Davis get any love? You might not like the Ewoks, but that 11 year old did a good job with the character he was given to act, managing to emote pretty well from under a big furry costume…

  • January 18, 2016 at 6:37 am
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    Do we know it was Rey’s parents who dropped her off and flew away?

    • January 18, 2016 at 3:01 pm
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      No. There has been no confirmation, but she does say that she’s waiting for her family to return, so presumably it was her parents or at least one of them. But we don’t know for sure.

      • January 18, 2016 at 7:47 pm
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        I’ll agree with you, but I wonder WHY she was left with somebody that clearly was bad news. I guess we’ll see.

  • January 18, 2016 at 10:53 am
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    I wonder where/how Rey eventually received such expert dental care on Jakku.

    • January 18, 2016 at 2:59 pm
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      Those magic muffins have dental hygienic properties that whiten your teeth and keep your mouth free of plaque and tartar build up. They even work to prevent gingivitis. That’s what I’m going with. 🙂

    • February 3, 2016 at 1:49 pm
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      Actually there are ancient tribes around the world who had good teeth – helps if you don[t have sweet things in your diet!

  • January 18, 2016 at 12:39 pm
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    Amazing that Rey has had the exact same hairstyle her entire life. Even Leia dropped the buns after the first movie.

    • January 18, 2016 at 3:33 pm
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      Not many hair stylists in the sparsely populated desert, I guess.

    • January 18, 2016 at 6:59 pm
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      That’s on purpose she thinks she need to look the same if the people that drop her on Jakku come back they would recognize her

      • January 18, 2016 at 7:46 pm
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        Strangely enough, that’s actually a solid answer. She grew up but part of her may still think that. I like the idea.

        • January 18, 2016 at 10:34 pm
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          She is very much a child at heart, she didn’t have any real connection to anyone her entire life until she met BB-8 is like emotionally she is still a child

  • January 18, 2016 at 8:45 pm
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    Maybe this was one of those things that JJ adjusted (at Rian Johnson’s request) to link up with Rian’s ep VIII that we’ve heard about?

  • January 19, 2016 at 1:57 am
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    Wow thats interesting. I thought she was good in that force vision. 🙂

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