“I was a little tomboy,” Ridley remembers. “Loud. Often very sassy. Insane amounts of energy. I remember asking, ‘Was I shy?’ And my mum laughing hysterically. She said I used to run into a room and go, ‘Helloooo!’”
How did you first react when you learned you were cast in a Star Wars project?
“I was living in Vancouver at the time. I was renting an apartment with a good friend of mine. He knew that I was up for this role and I was gonna be finding out soon. I got the phone call when I was still in bed, actually. I remember coming out of the room, just like an ear-to-ear grin on my face and my roommate looked at me and he was like, is that, you know, is that smile what I think it is? And then, so I lit up an imaginary lightsaber, you know. [adorable lightsaber buzzing] And immediately he got it and then he ran over to his record player and he had a a Star Wars soundtrack and he put the Star Wars soundtrack on and then he lit up his imaginary light saber. We had a whole lightsaber battle as we were laughing and jumping all over the couch and apartment. It was a very exciting time for me.”
#ME DEADASS ON THE FLOOR CRYING BECAUSE THIS IS TOO ADORABLE
