{"id":598516,"date":"2023-11-22T03:20:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T00:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/daisy-ridley-talks-the-marsh-kings-daughter-and-her-star-wars-return\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T03:20:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T00:20:22","slug":"daisy-ridley-talks-the-marsh-kings-daughter-and-her-star-wars-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/daisy-ridley-talks-the-marsh-kings-daughter-and-her-star-wars-return\/","title":{"rendered":"#Daisy Ridley Talks \u2018The Marsh King\u2019s Daughter\u2019 and Her \u2018Star Wars\u2019 Return"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Daisy Ridley has a lot going on these days, but she made a point to carve out some time to support The Marsh King\u2019s Daughter<\/em>, a film that was a promotional casualty of the now-resolved SAG-AFTRA strike. The English actor has plenty of reasons to be proud of her work in Neil Burger\u2019s thriller, as she\u2019s tasked with playing the psychologically complex and physical role of Helena. As a child, the character lived off the grid with her mother (Caren Pistorius) and father (Ben Mendelsohn) until she was abruptly and dramatically whisked away to lead a more civilized life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Ridley shares the role with Brooklynn Prince, who plays young Helena in flashbacks. The two actors happ<\/a>ened to have a viral moment in 2017, as Prince met Ridley backstage at Good Morning America<\/em>. Ridley then surprised Prince once more during a The Florida Project<\/em> Q&A with THR<\/em>\u2019s Scott Feinberg. And while it was a complete coincidence that the two were playing the same character in Marsh King\u2019s Daughter<\/em>, Ridley was amazed that they both portrayed Helena in a similar fashion.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe were playing the same person, and while we didn\u2019t really talk about it, we both approached Helena in very much the same way,\u201d Ridley tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201cWhen I got to Canada, she sent me those pictures [from our previous interactions]. It\u2019s quite surreal when you\u2019re an adult and you see a tiny person growing. You\u2019re like, \u2018Where have the last few years gone? Why are you a teenager now?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Ridley last spoke to THR<\/em> in late January for her Sundance gem, Sometimes I Think About Dying<\/em>, and at the time, she didn\u2019t know what was in store for her and Star Wars<\/em><\/a>. That quickly changed in April, when Ridley\u2019s return was announced by director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on the Star Wars<\/em> Celebration stage. She\u2019ll be leading Obaid-Chinoy\u2019s film that\u2019s set 15 years after the events of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker<\/em> (2019). Peaky Blinders<\/em> and Locke<\/em> scribe Steven Knight is helming the script.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhen I was at Sundance, I did not know. I shot my movie [Magpie<\/em>] when I got back, and I had a breakfast with Kathy [Kennedy] that I thought was just breakfast,\u201d Ridley recalls. \u201cAnd then it was mentioned, so I thought about it. I loved the story, and I was like, \u2018Okay.\u2019 Things then happened quite quickly, and it felt like I was instantaneously on a stage being introduced by [director] Sharmeen [Obaid-Chinoy]. It honestly took me back to being 20 or 21, however old I was, when [Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>] was announced. I was petrified, I was overwhelmed, I was really nervous but the response was really wonderful. And I\u2019m genuinely really excited about the next one. I haven\u2019t read anything, but I know the story. It\u2019s really worth telling, worth exploring, and I think people will be excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Below, during a recent conversation with THR<\/em>, Ridley also breaks down her most emotional Marsh King\u2019s Daughter<\/em> scene and how she instantly bonded with Ben \u201cMendo\u201d Mendelsohn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n So did you shoot <\/strong>The Marsh King\u2019s Daughter<\/em><\/strong> right before or right after <\/strong>Sometimes I Think About Dying<\/em><\/strong>?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n The Marsh King\u2019s Daughter<\/em> was right before Sometimes I Think About Dying<\/em>, so I filmed this, went home for two weeks and then went and played Fran [in Astoria, Oregon].<\/p>\n

\n When you started reading this script, what was the first detail to pique your interest?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n It was the exploration of the father-daughter bond and what it means to have raised your child in such a way that they revere you and are terrified of you. The rest of Helena\u2019s life is really shaped by that and the fear that she has, but also the excitement. She\u2019s desperate to see him once she just innately knows that he\u2019s not dead. So it was really that exploration and what it means to be a parent. And then it\u2019s about what it means for her to be a parent and how he has informed her. Where is the line? If it wasn\u2019t for her own child and him talking about her child, there\u2019s a chance that the ending wouldn\u2019t be the ending, but it\u2019s about the lengths you will go to protect your own child from the person who raised you.<\/p>\n

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Daisy Ridley as Helena Pelletier in The Marsh King\u2019s Daughter<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Philippe Boss\u00e9<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n Fran\u2019s unknown backstory is something you and your Dying<\/em> director debated, but in this case, Helena\u2019s upbringing is clearly laid out through flashbacks. As an actor, do you prefer to have all the pieces of the puzzle like you had with Helena?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n It was an interesting but different thing. I actually didn\u2019t watch Brooklynn\u2019s stuff till it was done, obviously, because I wasn\u2019t on set. So it was an interesting thing. We were playing the same person, and while we didn\u2019t really talk about it, we both approached Helena in very much the same way. It\u2019s subjective and memory is hazy, and sometimes, things are wrong. How you viewed something as a 10-year-old and how you view it as a 30-year-old are two different things. So, [with regard to backstory], I don\u2019t know that I can say I prefer either. Both ways challenge you and both leave a lot of room, strangely. There are a hundred ways to skin a cat, which is probably the wrong phrase, but that\u2019s a really long answer to say that I like both.<\/p>\n

\n You met Brooklynn Prince backstage at Good Morning America<\/em> in 2017, and then you surprised her during a Q&A that she was doing with THR<\/em>\u2019s Scott Feinberg. Did you play the role of agent? Did you recommend her to play your character\u2019s younger self?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I actually didn\u2019t, but when I heard it was her, I was like, \u201cWhat!?\u201d So, when I got to Canada, she sent me those pictures, and she\u2019s such a little baby in them. I remember how sweet and tiny she was, and I remember watching The Florida Project<\/em> and being like, \u201cOh my God, this girl is unbelievable.\u201d And then the producer [Alex Saks] who made Sometimes I Think About Dying<\/em> also made Florida Project<\/em>, so there were all these strange links. So I didn\u2019t play agent, but I was so thrilled. It\u2019s quite surreal when you\u2019re an adult and you see a tiny person growing. Time seems different, and you\u2019re like, \u201cWhere have the last few years gone? Why are you a teenager now?\u201d Yeah, she\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n

\n Had you and Ben Mendelsohn previously met at a Lucasfilm Christmas party, or was this your first time crossing paths?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n (Laughs<\/em>.) This was our first time crossing paths, and I couldn\u2019t have been more thrilled. We FaceTimed, because we were both in quarantine, and I loved him immedia<\/a>tely. (Ridley begins a stellar impression of \u201cMendo.\u201d<\/em>) He was like, \u201cDais, let\u2019s just get a relationship. Let\u2019s just chat. Let\u2019s just FaceTime, hang out and talk to each other.\u201d And then when we met, it felt like I\u2019d met him many times before. He\u2019s the most phenomenal actor, and I loved all the scenes with him, because they\u2019re so confusing, heartbreaking, scary and joyful. He\u2019s just so wonderful and he brings everything every time. So it was really fun playing with the different shades of it, because there are so many opposing things in their relationship, particularly how Helena feels about him. So, to have all of that space to fill in was quite wonderful.<\/p>\n

\n I believe this was your first time playing a mother as well. How much did that affect your typical approach to a character?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I called Joey [Carson] little Meryl Streep. She was five or six; I think she turned six after we stopped filming. What\u2019s interesting with a child is you are just serving a child. So, in a way, it\u2019s an amazing acting thing, because you\u2019re really not thinking about yourself at all. It\u2019s like, \u201cIs this child okay?\u201d I don\u2019t think it\u2019s in the film, but there was a bit where I grabbed her and I had to look a certain way, but I was just so concerned about her that it was sort of amazing. I don\u2019t know what being a parent is like, but I suppose that\u2019s what it\u2019s like. So she was so amazing. I had to grab her wrist and I kept saying, \u201cAre you okay? Are you okay? And she said, \u201cI\u2019m fine, I\u2019m fine.\u201d And then she goes, \u201cIt\u2019s weird, though, because after a bit, it feels like it hurts.\u201d She was imagining so much that it started hurting, and I was like, \u201cOh my God, this brilliant child.\u201d But it was just wonderful when she came to set, whether we were filming or not. It was all about serving her, and we played all the time. So it takes you out of yourself in a really wonderful way. It\u2019s the opposite of self-consciousness. I just wanted her to be okay.<\/p>\n

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Gil Birmingham as Clark Bekkum and Daisy Ridley as Helena Pelletier in The Marsh King\u2019s Daughter. <\/span><\/p>\n

Philippe Boss\u00e9<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n The psychology of people who went from off-the-grid lifestyles to civilized life must be quite complex. How deep did you go to try and figure that out?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I did reading on cults and the feelings of people that were indoctrinated into something and have difficult parental figures. And the thing that I came across in what I saw involved tears. Even way after people had left things that were maybe not serving them in a healthy way, they didn\u2019t cry. People don\u2019t cry for years and years after they\u2019ve left certain groups, so that was a big thing. With Helena, she\u2019s desperately trying to not show anything, because her father literally tells her that the only tears he ever wants to see are the tattoos on her face.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n So it was an interesting exercise in restraint until the moment where she says to her husband, \u201cThis is who I am. This is who made me. Will you please accept me now?\u201d And it did make that scene feel so much more vulnerable and intimate. For someone who has been married for a while and lied to their partner about a lot of things, to then say, \u201cThis is me,\u201d it made that scene feel so emotional, knowing that she\u2019s unusual in that way but is open to receiving love or rejection. So a lot of it was an exercise in restraint, and when Ben and I were doing scenes together, it was really hard to not be emotional because he\u2019s so \u2026 (Ridley gasps<\/em>.) So I don\u2019t know if I succeeded, but yes, a lot of it was not being too showy with emotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Yeah, that driveaway scene where she bares her soul to her husband is one of the best scenes you\u2019ve ever done.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Oh, thank you.<\/p>\n

\n Outside of the physical acting you had to do, was that the scene you anticipated the most or perhaps dreaded the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I was anticipating that, yes. Every time I read that bit in the script, I was like, \u201cOh my God, this poor woman, this poor woman.\u201d Strangely enough, with Sometimes I Think About Dying<\/em>\u2019s last scene, I always thought, \u201cThis poor woman.\u201d There\u2019s always that moment where you think, \u201cOh my god, this is the most human essence of this person.\u201d So I was anticipating that scene, but I also felt excited to see what it was because you just never know. You can prep and you can talk and you can discuss what it might be and what it is, but the actual expression of that is always going to be in the moment. So I was anticipating it, and then it was quite beautiful, particularly having held so much in and then being able to take a breath as Helena. It was very moving.<\/p>\n

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Daisy Ridley as Fran in Sometimes I Think About Dying<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dustin Lane\/Courtesy of Sundance Institute<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n Not counting last-minute shoots at Bad Robot, is Sometimes I Think About Dying<\/a><\/em> the only time you\u2019ve shot a movie in the States?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Yes! I did The Marsh King\u2019s<\/em> Daughter<\/em> in Canada, and then we shot [Dying<\/em>] in Astoria [Oregon]. In England, you\u2019re not allowed to drive yourself [to set], but I drove myself to certain stuff on [Dying<\/em>]. It was such a different feeling. But yes, that was my first time in America.<\/p>\n

\n Speaking of England, seven months ago, you were showered with adulation on the <\/strong>Star Wars <\/em><\/strong>Celebration stage. What was the basic course of events that led to that moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n The basic course is when I was at Sundance, I did not know. I shot my movie [Magpie<\/em>] when I got back, and I had a breakfast with Kathy [Kennedy] that I thought was just breakfast. (Laughs<\/em>.) And then it was mentioned, so I thought about it. I loved the story, and I was like, \u201cOkay.\u201d Things then happened quite quickly, and it felt like I was instantaneously on a stage being introduced by [director] Sharmeen [Obaid-Chinoy]. It honestly took me back to being 20 or 21, however old I was, when [Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>] was announced. I was petrified, I was overwhelmed, I was really nervous but the response was really wonderful. And I\u2019m genuinely really excited about the next one. I haven\u2019t read anything, but I know the story. It\u2019s really worth telling, worth exploring, and I think people will be excited.<\/p>\n

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