With Sometimes I Think About Dying, has Daisy Ridley beaten the Star Wars curse?
It ain’t easy being a Jedi. On the face of it, it seems like a pretty cushy gig – replete with perks such as adoring fans, flowing robes, and a big glowing stick you get to waggle at things. But the reality of becoming a Jedi is markedly less liberating. Just ask Mark Hamill. Or Hayden Christensen. Or Daisy Ridley.
Since the days of the original, it wasn’t just Hamill whose employment landscape started to look rather Tatooine-y: Carrie Fisher, pigeonholed permanently into the bun-haired outline of Princess Leia, was similarly let down by an industry that . Christensen is the quintessential victim of the “Star Wars curse” – a promising young actor who flapped out of the Star Wars nest in 2005 and hit the ground like a hailstone. For the past several years, it has seemed as though Ridley – aka the sequel trilogy’s unflappable protagonist Rey – has been destined to languish in cinematic mediocrity. Her most notable non-Star Wars projects to date have been the insipid whodunnit and the dreary Tom Holland sci-fi . But this week, finally, things are looking up.
