Daisy Ridley Said She Completely Stayed Away From the Internet After Making Her Three STAR WARS Movies

Daisy Ridley has had consistent work the last few years, but she will probably always be best known for her role as Rey in the last Star Wars trilogy of the Skywalker Saga. While the films have pretty great critical reviews, it’s widely known that they are not thought of as fondly by the Star Wars fandom. The biggest complaint seems to be the consistency of the storyline between the three films. So while they individually may have merit, they didn’t serve the character arcs the way fans had hoped.

But Ridley did her best to stay away from the hate spewed her way while making the movies, and she recently told Rolling Stone that she completely got off social media and stayed off the internet for a while after making the movies, but people would still be so bold as to address her in the street and be mean to her about the movies!

The funny thing is, because I don’t read stuff and wasn’t on social media for a while, when I was referring to how people can have big opinions about it, random people in the street would be so open with their opinions and I would be like, I’m good. I don’t need to hear that. Cool. Great. As a person, whether I liked a film or not, I would never go up to a person and go, “I hated your film.” Because I’m a human being. It was probably more gendered than I was aware of.

The interviewer did mention that after talking with some of the other cast members, it was clear that women and people of color in the cast definitely had it the worst as far as criticism went. They said they were shocked that when they wrote a piece praising the character Rey in The Force Awakens and the feminist direction the film was taking, they got some pretty wild hate mail over it. And that was just for writing something about it. Ridley responded:

Yeah. Luckily, I did not read anything. I think there’s so much vitriol out there that I didn’t need to read it. I felt for Moses Ingram recently, and felt that in comparison it was so much worse for other people. I don’t just think it’s fandom. Everyone feels they need to say everything they’re feeling, and I don’t know that everyone does.

Ridley added:

And it’s one of those things that’s like, there’s no point in having an argument about it, because people will think what they think. So for me, I’m going to carry on doing work that I think speaks to people, men and women, and if people don’t like it then they don’t like it.

Good for her. It really doesn’t matter in the long run what a small group of people thought about her in a role that she is finished with and moved on from. It sounds like she has a great outlook on her career and the projects she intends to work on in the future.