(This was also before the COVID-19 pandemic that halted Hollywood, by the way.)
That, the actress says, was not the case.
“It was so sad to finish [Star Wars],” she says over Zoom from London.
Daisy Ridley’s Rey in ‘Rise of Skywalker’.Credit: Jonathan Olley/© 2019 Lucasfilm Ltd.
“When the film was released, I was like, ‘Oh my God.’
It was such a huge chapter.
“Weirdly, at the beginning of the year nothing was coming through,” she continues.
“I was like, ‘Aww!
No one wants to employ me.'”
“I had that moment of ‘Oh my god!’
and then just thought ‘everything in its right time,'” she says.
By the end of February, early March, “things started picking up.”
It was around that time she got a call aboutTwelve Minutes.
Ridley will alsolend her talents to an original Audible series,Islanders, from playwright Elinor Cook.
Scripts for other potential projects have come across her way during London’s pandemic-prompted quarantine.
“Theres one thing that I’m gonna do thats super fing dark,” she teases.
“I was like, ‘Do we need something this dark?’
But its also really interesting and about memory and everythings a bit fragmented.
That’s what people need.”
