Daisy Ridley admits ‘Star Wars’ backlash was pretty upsetting

When you wrap up an epic franchise like Star Wars, odds are you’re going to upset a few fans for the creative vision that you’ve put out there. It’s kind of impossible not to. But that doesn’t make some of the online hate any less real. Just ask the guys behind Game of Thrones, who are probably still getting reactions to that final season and controversial ending. Maybe Star Wars lead Daisy Ridley should have had a chat with those guys ahead of the December 2019 release of The Rise of Skywalker, because perhaps then she would have been better prepared for the unexpected hate.In a recent episode of the DragCast podcast, Ridley chatted about fan reactions over the past few months and how upsetting it has been to her, given the love that she says went into making the movie in the first place. As she pointed out, some of the loudest negative reactions were a 180 from the ones she received for her first Star Wars film, The Force Awakens.

 

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“It’s changed film by film honestly, like 98 per cent, it’s so amazing, this last film it was really tricky,” she said. “January was not that nice. It was weird, I felt like all of this love that we’d sort of been shown the first time around, I was like, ‘Where’s the love gone?’ I watched the documentary, the making-of [The Skywalker Legacy], this week, and it’s so filled with love, and I think it’s that tricky thing of when you’re part of something that is so filled with love and then people [don’t like it].”