Daisy Ridley has rapidly become the darling of the Internet. Whether she’s turning down dance invitations or handling the crappier parts of the Internet with aplomb, there’s no denying she’s the breakout star of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Well, okay, BB-8 is probably bigger, but Ridley has way better deadlift videos. And it was obvious even from her audition, as we see in a new clip from the upcoming behind-the-scenes documentary.
Surprisingly, they chose the interrogation scene between Rey and Kylo Ren as the audition piece, and it seems that Ridley’s audition had a strong influence on how that scene unfolded in the movie. It’s not hard to see why; if you pulled this video out of context and just posted it online, you’d probably be put on an FBI watchlist in a femtosecond. And she had to do it multiple times, no less.
The piece also talks a bit about the audition process, which involved thousands of actors recording auditions as Disney and Abrams were looking for an unknown. So, she not only had to do this, she had to beat some long odds to get the role. And get upstaged by a sentient soccer ball anyway, but hey, that’s Hollywood.
(Via io9)
