Daisy Ridley Says Luke Doesn’t Know Who Rey is When he Sees Her for the First Time!

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In another brief talk with Fandango’s Erik DavisDaisy Ridley intentionally or not put the final nail in the coffin of the theory that Luke is Rey’s father or at least so it seems…

 

 

While comparing the relationships between Luke and Yoda, and Luke and Rey, Ridley let a slip that when Luke sees Rey for the first time in The Force Awakens, “he obviously doesn’t know who she is”. That would seem rather strange if she was his daughter, don’t you think?

 

 

Now of course she may be speaking from the viewer’s point of view, but obviously the look on Luke’s face at the end of The Force Awakens was meant to mean that he doesn’t know who she is.

 

Also Daisy revealed that she has spoken with people who saw a rough cut of The Last Jedi, and they all say that the movie has a very different feel, which we all noticed from the teaser trailer that was revealed yesterday.

 

 

 

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69 thoughts on “Daisy Ridley Says Luke Doesn’t Know Who Rey is When he Sees Her for the First Time!

  • April 15, 2017 at 4:52 pm
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    If she were his daughter and hadn’t seen him since she was a little child (8-9 years old?) would either really recognise each other, both have changed greatly in that period.

    • April 15, 2017 at 7:24 pm
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      She is not his daughter.

      • April 15, 2017 at 8:03 pm
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        Based on what evidence?

        • April 16, 2017 at 5:49 am
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          Watch the movie? Rey was old enough to remember when she was dropped off on Jakku, she would remember who and what her father looked like.

          Han and Leia don’t acknowledge her as their niece?

          Luke would leave his child in the care of Unkar Plutt on a world as dangerous as Jakku?

          Unless they decide that Luke had a tryst with one of his pupils at the academy and said student escaped pregnant from the Ren butchery without anyone knowing she was with child, the likelihood of Rey not remembering her father is Luke Skywalker, a person she knew of and responded in awe of Han Solo having known, is jack squat.

          What more, if she is a secret Skywalker that even Luke does not know about, how would he know she is?

          You have enough loose story ends going into The Last Jedi that need to be fleshed out as it is. You think LFL and Johnson are going to add additional events and characters that will only be mentioned in passing but have that great of an impact on the story? Remember, in a Saga film, there are no flash backs. This would be related in dialogue only.

          That’s poor script writing.

          I could very well be wrong. She could be Luke’s kid. I’d expect Snoke to be her parent before Luke.

          • April 17, 2017 at 7:03 am
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            Lor San Tekka was also on Jakku possibly looking from a distance like Obi Wan. To him Leia was ‘Royalty’ so we know where his loyalties lie. Maybe he never interfered because she wasnt in real danger on Jakku despit Unkar wasnt the nicest of creatures.

          • April 18, 2017 at 1:54 am
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            She was salvaging garbage for diminished food supplies.

            Luke lived in a nice home with a caring couple who treated him like their son.

            Still gonna go with newp.

      • April 15, 2017 at 10:33 pm
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        Cool man I didn’t know you saw the movie already. No spoilers please.

        • April 16, 2017 at 5:36 am
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          I’ll happily admit I was way wrong if that’s what occurs, but it is unlikely that they will repeat the same story verbatim again.

    • April 15, 2017 at 9:09 pm
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      They’ve done a great job in keeping it secret, father or not, I hope it lasts until the film’s release.

  • April 15, 2017 at 4:52 pm
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    I don’t believe she’s his daughter but luke didn’t know who vader was soooooo….

  • April 15, 2017 at 4:57 pm
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    She could still be his daughter. Easily. The last time she saw her parents was something like 15 years ago or more.

  • April 15, 2017 at 5:03 pm
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    What a stupid headline! I’m not really bothered one way or another who Rey’s father is but it doesn’t even come close to being “the final nail in the coffin”! There are just as many reason she could be his daughter as there are against.

  • April 15, 2017 at 5:19 pm
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    Darth Vader didn’t know the one strong with the Force in the X-wing who was about to blow up the Death Star was his son either….so

  • April 15, 2017 at 5:40 pm
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    so maybe its true that the first line of luke is : who are you?

  • April 15, 2017 at 5:54 pm
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    Vader didn’t know Luke was his son at first, either. He thought Luke had died with Padme, and he didn’t know anything at all about Leia until Jedi. So Rey could still be Luke’s daughter.

    • April 15, 2017 at 5:56 pm
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      And he might have been convinced she is dead. Or he might not even know that he has kids, the mother getting pregnant, then running off scared for her kid(s).

      • April 15, 2017 at 6:06 pm
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        That’s exactly the kind of thing I was thinking. Like, if the mother disagreed with the direction Luke was going, or if she felt there was danger, she could have disappeared, either knowing or not knowing she was pregnant. Or, Luke could have thought she was killed (and maybe she later DID die), and never knew about his daughter. So, it would make sense for him not to know who Rey was. I mean, Vader looked Leia in the face HOW many times, AND tortured her, and didn’t know she was his daughter until right before he died.

      • April 15, 2017 at 8:43 pm
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        I’m thinking the same — helps exonerate him from being a deadbeat dad. (We don’t want that for our hero.)

    • April 15, 2017 at 6:00 pm
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      The most important piece of news in the interview is not the part about Luke not knowing Rey, but the information that people who saw a rough cut of the movie thought it had a “very different feel”. That may be an euphemism for having felt the movie was weird, plainly bad, or uncharacterstically SW. That is basically my concern as the trailer seems to back up that perception.

      • April 15, 2017 at 7:28 pm
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        If it has a very different feel to TFA, that’s great news. There’s not enough in the teaser trailer to say how it’s going to be one way or the other though.

      • April 15, 2017 at 10:31 pm
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        What’s wrong with the trailer? Seriously? Like it’s not just you..I’ve seen many people refer to this trailer as bad. It keeps everything mysterious but still gets the hype going. That’s a pretty efficient trailer if you ask me.

  • April 15, 2017 at 5:55 pm
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    There were rumours in the past, based on comments by JJ Abrahams and Lawrence Kasdan, that RJ’s script for TLJ was “weird” and the trailer seems to reinforce that perception. Maybe I am being too pessimistic, but I have a bad feeling about this movie.

    • April 15, 2017 at 6:05 pm
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      What I recall from JJ is him saying the script was so amazing he was jealous that he couldn’t direct it himself.

      • April 15, 2017 at 6:45 pm
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        I remember that too

      • April 15, 2017 at 7:24 pm
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        Yes that is exactly what happened from my recollection as well

    • April 15, 2017 at 7:18 pm
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      Weird is good! Johnson is the best director ever to get his hands on a Star Wars movie. He should be allowed to do whatever the hell he wants.

    • April 15, 2017 at 8:35 pm
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      I’m sure Empire seemed like a rather “weird” prospect immediately following the first Star Wars film….

  • April 15, 2017 at 6:06 pm
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    If Rey is not Luke’s daughter I think it’s good for them to bring fan expectations down. Otherwise there could be a lot of disappointed people.

    • April 15, 2017 at 7:22 pm
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      No, if people are still stuck on that half cocked idea, they deserve to be disappointed.

      • April 15, 2017 at 7:42 pm
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        Lol…it’s not half-cocked. People will still enjoy the movie if she’s his daughter or not.

        • April 16, 2017 at 5:50 am
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          It is half-cocked.

          • April 16, 2017 at 6:48 pm
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            Believe what you want….

          • April 16, 2017 at 9:06 pm
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            See you in December.

            Are you big enough to admit you were dead wrong?

          • April 17, 2017 at 12:15 am
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            Sure, are you? As I’ve said in other posts I’d rather she be Luke’s daughter, but it’s up to the writers and director to decide which path they will take. Regardless, I’m going to enjoy the film. It’s just a movie, after all.

          • April 17, 2017 at 12:33 am
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            I happily admit when I’m wrong.

      • April 15, 2017 at 9:53 pm
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        Do you ever just shut up about how superior you think you are? You’re a grouch!

        • April 16, 2017 at 5:38 am
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          She’s not his kid. Tell you what buddy, I’ll see you in December.

          If I’m wrong, I’ll admit.

          If you’re wrong, you’ll avoid the topic completely to not feel foolish.

      • April 16, 2017 at 4:32 am
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        How is it half-cocked? The Star Wars saga has always been about the Skywalkers, and if it Disney makes it that Rey turns out to be totally unrelated just for the sake of them doing everything different than what Lucas envisioned, I will be extremely upset.

        • April 16, 2017 at 5:35 am
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          It’s not different than what Lucas envisioned, it’s giving us something that isn’t a complete rehash of the original trilogy. Exact same story beats? Seriously?

          Prepared to be extremely upset.

  • April 15, 2017 at 6:12 pm
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    As much as I’ve always believed Rey is not Luke’s daughter, Ridley’s statement is just more ambiguity.

    Having watched The Last Jedi teaser about 10 times now, I get the impression that the movie will be of the kind that gets better on each subsequent viewing, much like Looper. There looks be a lot more depth in this episode.

  • April 15, 2017 at 6:31 pm
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    I don’t think Rey will be Luke’s daughter. I wish she would be, but I don’t believe they will go that route. However, this doesn’t really confirm that she isn’t his daughter. Also, the comments about it being different is meant as a good thing – just like Empire being so different than Epiosde 4.

    • April 16, 2017 at 12:20 pm
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      I agree completely. Wish she was, but highly doubt she is his daughter. But even if neither of them were to know each other, that would not necessarily preclude her from being his daughter anyway. We know pretty much nothing of the events that lead her to be on Jakku, or of what Luke was up to for the past 30 years, besides a failed attempt to restart the Jedi Order.

  • April 15, 2017 at 7:04 pm
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    Didn’t the script for episode 7 say at the end that Luke knows who she is?

    • April 15, 2017 at 7:41 pm
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      It’s vague.

      • April 15, 2017 at 8:25 pm
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        The Script say some on the lines of “he doesn’t need to asked who she is or what she’s doing there” that doesn’t seem vague to me.

        • April 15, 2017 at 9:10 pm
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          IT IS LUKE SKYWALKER.
          Older now, white hair, bearded. He looks at Rey. A kindness in his eyes, but there’s something tortured, too. He doesn’t need to ask her who she is, or what she is doing here. His look says it all.

          That is still relatively ambiguous as to what it means – it could mean he was expecting someone from the Resistance to find him eventually and this girl happens to be the one, not that he knows exactly what her origins and identity are.

          • April 15, 2017 at 9:12 pm
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            Yep — that could go either way.

        • April 16, 2017 at 12:14 pm
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          The “His look says it all,” reads to me like the direction for the actor is intended for the look he gives Rey to ask the questions of who she is and what she is doing there without saying the words, not that he already knows the answer.

    • April 15, 2017 at 11:42 pm
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      It says that he doesn’t have to ask who she is or why she’s there. His look says it all. That could be interpreted as saying that his eyes ask both questions in silence.

    • April 16, 2017 at 2:30 am
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      Script also said Leia gives her a “motherly hug”.

  • April 15, 2017 at 7:34 pm
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    It would be amazing that Luke is The Last Jedi (as he is) and after that, no more Jedi, as he said, and after his death, Rey starts new organization ” Knights of Skywalker ”

    • April 15, 2017 at 8:42 pm
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      Episode IX: Return of the Skywalkers or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Let Go of the Jedi

      I’m down — family beats religion in my world.

    • April 15, 2017 at 10:30 pm
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      I doubt there will be no Jedi in the future, its the main selling point of Star Wars to the general public.

      Plus everyone seems to have forgotten some of the first words in TFA spoken by Lor San Tekka “without the Jedi there can be no balance to the force” To me it says that the despair in the universe is due to the lack of guardians, aka the Jedi.

      • April 16, 2017 at 12:11 pm
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        I agree with this. I still think it’s possible they are ending the Jedi and starting something new, but that goes against everything that has been established in previous films, I think. The Jedi are too important a part of Star Wars for them not to be a thing anymore. If Lucasfilm went in that direction, it would be a huge mistake, imo.

        • April 19, 2017 at 3:24 pm
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          alternatively, no more jedi would also mean no more sith, but rather a balance of the force with no distinction between factions of good or evil. sure, Tekka is a practitioner of the force, and understands it in the religious sense, maybe luke is breaking that to show that the only true balance is releasing the current understanding of the force.

    • April 16, 2017 at 12:53 am
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      The Skywalker Sect? The Scions of Skywalker? So many things could happen.

  • April 15, 2017 at 8:37 pm
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    The most intriguing shot of the trailer (to me) is the very first one — I didn’t
    expect such a level of distress after (what looks like) a few mere
    minutes since we last saw Rey with Luke. Did he toss her off the cliff? 😉

    Would it contradict anything established in recent canon (time-wise) for Rey to recognize Luke as her father, but not realize until now that her dad was in fact
    the guy she heard about in myth & legend? Maybe I’m just watching to much of ‘The Americans’ (great show btw), but I’m theorizing that maybe he was present in her early childhood, but never revealed his true identity in order to protect her, and then had to disappear from her life in a drastic manner. Or else someone convinced Luke she was dead. Regardless of Daisy’s comment above, as performers, they act out that final scene in TFA as if the characters both recognize each other.

    One would assume that once she discovered that the mythological Luke was real in TFA, she might have at least googled what he looked like before she hopped back in the Falcon to find him… but maybe not?

    If the recent books/comics/canon-whatever contradict any of this, that’s fine — more to ponder for the next eight months.

    • April 15, 2017 at 10:20 pm
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      My guess is she had a particularly frightening Force vision, which has happened at least twice already in the Star Wars films. Some have been speculating that she was Force choked by Luke as a lesson, but I think that’s an unlikely alternative compared to seeing some terrifying version of the future, perhaps in a cave, or by touching some artifact.

      • April 16, 2017 at 12:36 am
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        Good point. No way Luke’s going to intentionally hurt her — I hadn’t heard that rumor.

        I wonder if the lightsaber isn’t going to respond so well to Luke. Like, the minute she hands it to him, it’s pulled back to Rey and they both share one crazy vision.

        Cant wait…

        • April 16, 2017 at 12:52 am
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          Same here Jim…stoked for what lies ahead in Star Wars, even when the rest can be unknown in this day and age!

  • April 15, 2017 at 10:15 pm
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    If Luke I said despondent, old, and jaded, he just may not know who anyone is. Not a nail for me.

  • April 15, 2017 at 11:55 pm
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    But of course, this long dramatic look means he doesn’n know who she is. I can only say Mark is a terrible actor. Anybody I asked told me it was clear he knew who she is 🙂 Normal reaction would be turn and ask Who are you. He even didn’t look surprised that she came to him!

  • April 16, 2017 at 12:07 am
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    I remember Before TFA when asked Daisy suggested that her dad is Han Solo. Not explicitly, but pointing at that direction. So the same fake direction coud been pointed here

  • April 16, 2017 at 2:28 am
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    I still think her parents are Han & Leia. Not sure if Han knows or not, but the clues I see: He is the “father she never had”… Leia hugs her and seems to know her when they are first seen together. Last, they played “Rey’s theme” when they showed Leia in the trailer.

  • April 16, 2017 at 2:29 am
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    As for the movie being “different”… I hope it isn’t TOO dark. TFA was dark with the death of Han Solo. I don’t want to leave depressed. Lol.

  • April 16, 2017 at 7:37 am
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    Lies! Deceptions!

  • April 16, 2017 at 8:09 am
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    If Luke was Rey´s father was an important fact, but I think it could have closed more possible twists in the story than open.
    While Rey´s parents are still in discussion… I think this movie is going to open more paths than close.
    So if we are wondering now Rey´s origins, I believe we´ll have plenty more different questions after Episode VIII.

  • April 16, 2017 at 11:21 pm
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    He hasn’t seen her in 20 years or so, IF he is her father. How is he supposed to recognize her?

    • April 19, 2017 at 11:03 pm
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      Through the force?

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