I don’t know if I can prepare for what’s to come because I don’t know what will.
A seventeen-year-old Daisy Ridley pretending to audition for the pop band, A1 (2009)
Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.
It’s funny because the action figures are cool, and then I enjoy the magazines because that’s me. Obviously, the fans are wonderful, they’re so excited, but I’m not Rey and people tend to not be able to differentiate the two. So to be able to be me — a much glammer version myself, obviously… a whole village making me look better than I usually do — that’s nice. And the interviews I’ve done, people have tended to be quite kind, and so that’s nice because I read things and I think, “Oh, I think I’m represented well here.” Because in the film Rey’s an incredible representation of a young [woman]. Her story and the character J.J. wrote is a representation of something amazing that I tried to embody, and so that combination is really nice, to be able to be me and then be her, too.
It’s one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it’s quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.
