Ridley says the backlash is “still upsetting” to her.
Ridley reflected on the backlash in an interview with Josh Horowitz on theHappy Sad Confused podcastrecently.
She said the response is “still upsetting,” even years later.
The second, super divisive.
The last one, super divisive.
It didn’t change how I felt about it."
Ridley, however, believes the kiss was earned and served its purpose as a storytelling equipment.
“I felt like we all…it felt earned,” Ridley said of the kiss.
“What was interesting again is intentionality.
My feeling in that moment was that it was a goodbye, and that felt earned.
you’re free to call a kiss a thousand things, but I felt it was a goodbye.
That whole scene felt emotional and I felt I was saying goodbye to the job, too.”
Ridley is coming back to play Rey again in a new Star Wars film from Oscar-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
Ridley recently toldVarietythat the story for this movie is “cool as shit.”
“No spoilers, but [Obaid-Chinoy] gave me a rundown of the entire story.
But it’s worthwhile,” she said.
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