J.J. Abrams Amazed at Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens Audition
With the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray getting set for a release on April 5th, fans have been salivating at seeing some of the behind- the-scenes footage and bonus materials included on the discs.
BuzzFeed got an advanced look at one of the exclusive preview of one bonus feature. The clip shows Daisy Ridley’s original audition tape for her character Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The clip reveals Daisy acting out one of the film’s emotional scenes between Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Rey as he tries to use the force by attempting to read her mind to find out vital information.
Director J.J. Abrams talked briefly about Ridley’s audition in the clip.
She just blew my mind,” Abrams says. “She’s reaching this depth of struggle and tears are streaming down her face.” he said.”I thought, ‘this is unbelievable,'” Abrams remembers. He had her stop, and gave her a few notes before running through the scene again. “She just did it again, and I thought ‘Oh my god.'” He added.
You can read the full story at BuzzFeed, and check back for more Star Wars news regarding “The Force Awakens” Blu-ray. Our review will be up tomorrow.
Loved her in this movie.
I guess Daisy ended up on the shortlist pretty immediately.
Daisy was amazing. All of the actors were.
It’s not like any of the parts were written for a tour de force acting performance, but Ridley in particular impressed me with her total commitment to the universe and the character. NEVER would have believed this was her first big gig.
Me either. Her performance seriously impressed me, especially considering that TFA was literally her first feature film.
Right, enough of the love in – now back to the regularly scheduled snarking.
I saw a speck of dust land in the wrong place during the movie. What a shit film, amirite?
Don’t even – I take it you were never present for the “speck of dust on Chewie’s foot” discussions when Harmy was putting together his descpecialized editions 🙂
Chewie dusted first.
Please stop liking my comments randomly.
I will never like any from you XD
But you liked your own. And there you go – pity ‘like’ from me. Buy yourself something nice with it.
Yes I liked it on protest for this nonsense :)))
Um…what are you talking about?
Get over it.
Still not sure what you’re talking about.
lazy brain…
Okay….
Mr Crankypants said something nice for once!
I’m also a believer in giving credit where and when it’s due.
Republic or normal?
I’m very nice. I just also have considered, critical opinions about things I watch. There is good in the film, there is also bad in it. Again, my frustration is that there was a lot of squandered good, and the second half of the film is just a totally different creature from the first – like you can spot where Arndt’s draft stops and JJ’s and LK’s changes start.
But if you really were to find out at where they both really wrote, you find out you were wrong. Nobody knows at this point.
There’s a nude picture of her floating around out there..
Which I guess would be interesting if you had never seen lady-parts before, and were not appealing enough to see them on a regular basis. I mean I guess. I wouldn’t know.
yeah, she’s a little young and skinny for my taste, but definitely has lots of charisma. Honestly she’s so much like a little sister, sort of, friend type that I just don’t think of her as sexy in that way. Probably why they cast her… that wholesome quality.
Spoken like a true Bitch-ass with no sense of humor.
No sir, I have seen my full share of bitch asses, and never once had them speak to me. I would suggest you get that checked out, although I suspect your confusion lies more in the fact that you’ve never seen one outside of Dead or Alive 7.
It’s the scene where she played a corpse.
https://youtu.be/GB92zVw3OOU
https://youtu.be/RwECHHI1QDQ
5th we should be so lucky 18th in UK
And I thought I had it bad. 13th in Australia.
24 in Brazil, winner
I would pay a lot of money to have a Rey casting couch video.
She’s fantastic by far my favorite part about TFA, they couldn’t have gotten more lucky with finding her, she’s perfect as Rey.
Especially if the rumors were true that J-Raw was on the short list. That probably would have sank the entire film.
She looks no older than 16-17 there. Interesting how her face has matured since then will probably be more noticeable in the next one.
She was actually about 19-20 there.
She was but looks closer to Natalie’s age in TPM here. Now she looks closer to her age but it might have been a result of the Middle East tan.
Truth explored she was 21. I wonder if they still have the age guessing people at the county fairs.
Carrie was 19 in ANH I think but never looked that young. I always thought she was in her mid to late 20’s in it.
As if everyone one always “looks” their exact age in real life.
I buy it with most of the SW ones save for some rare exceptions.
Natalie turned 16 while filming, playing a girl in 14th year somewhere.
If you put a pic of her as Padme in I next to the pic above, You’d think they were classmates.
She did a terrific job. In a “big budget” film like TFA, she gave us a real personal commitment and a sublime acting characterization (humanity, wisdom, strenght, skills…) I just finished my 6 view. Her evolution in this first film is perfect. I can’t imagine anyone better.
Can’t wait to see her playing against Luke Skywalker. Anyone else hoping that the two have disagreements and bounce counter-arguments about the nature of the force? Like not immediately, but by Ep IX the two should have a semi-falling out where Luke is all like “this is just the way things are, you should just accept that Kylo is evil,” and Rey is all like “No, you’re wrong.” And Obiwan’s ghost is all like “You see? Told you you was being a childish dumbass. How does it feel being on the other side?” And Luke is like “Shut up, Ben, I was right about my father being good. Kylo Ren is not the same, this is not the same situation at all.” And Ben is like “Yeah, whatever.” and rolls his eyes.
Then Yoda pops up and says to Ben “Hey, you weren’t much better when you were their age, Obiwan. What was that about ‘Anakin is not evil’? Yeah, that panned out.”
Then Luke cuts in “Yoda, back off. Obiwan was right about Anakin, he DID turn back to good.”
Obiwan’s like “No, Yoda’s got a point. I should’a killed Anakin on Mustafar. He was good, but, eh, too little too late. Should’a just killed him sooner.”
Yoda’s like “Agreed, both you and Luke were wrong to believe in Anakin.”
And Luke’s like, “Oh, but out of the 3 people who tried to fight Darth Sidious, who won? … yeah, that’s what I thought.”
Yoda looks embarrassed and fades back into the ether.
Obiwan looks at Luke upset “You shouldn’t talk to him like that. It’ll be years before Yoda will come to board-game night. He’s really sensitive about the whole “Senate building” incident.
Luke’s like “But I AM right. Vader was totally worth saving. Kylo Ren is different though. Rey should totally just realize that I’m completely justified in wanting him dead.”
Obiwan looks at Luke.
Luke reaffirms “It’s NOT the same as when I did it! It’s not. Stop looking at me like that.”
Will you have my babies?
Looks like the scene with the fire near her and the wet mud was the Vision scene of the Luke academy slaughter.
Aww crap, they found my secret tapes…
Whose hand is that on Daisy Ridley’s face? Driver’s?
it would just be a producer or someone like that. Its just a casting.
She’s the anchor of the trilogy. She’s pure magic.
Very first task?? Well that was kinda awkward I imagine.
“Hi, can you demonstrate being tortured in a scene?”
“What??!! No, wait, I auditioned for Star Wars!”
“Yes, this is Star Wars.”
And she’s auditioning with actual dialogue from the film, which contrasts with what many of the actors have said about their auditions.
Prequel music opening 😉
And are we really surprised? They always say that about whomever is cast.
Well, we can thank JJ for that too then…
One of the strong points of the movie is Rey.
And SHE IS amazing.
Except some times it’s true, so since everyone saw the movie in this case is
She is a great actress. You really could feel her struggle and longing to see her “family” again. While to me the movie was mediocre her performance and character were excellent. Rian will take this story to a new level.
I’d be surprise if she does but she’s basically a gender bended Indiana Jones and seeing how Ridley is the Ford of this new trilogy, It might be a good fit.