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        <title><![CDATA[‘Star Wars’ fans freak over Daisy Ridley’s explosive Rey Kenobi revelations]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obi-Wan Kenobi . . . you are not the father!</p><p>According to actress Daisy Ridley, her mysterious &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; franchise character, Rey, was once going to be a descendant of Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi, and not (spoiler alert) the villainous Emperor Palpatine, as revealed in &#8220;The Rise of Skywalker.&#8221;</p><p>But then the screenwriters started jerking around with her heritage.</p><p>&#8220;At the beginning, there was toying with an Obi-Wan connection — there were different versions — then it really went to it was no one, and then it came to episode nine and J.J. [Abrams] pitched me the film and was like &#8216;Oh, yeah, Palpatine is granddaddy,&#8217; &#8221; Ridley, 28, <strong>told guest host Josh Gad</strong> on &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; on Tuesday.</p><p>And it only got more jumbled from there.</p><p>&#8220;Then two weeks later he was like, &#8216;Oh, we&#8217;re not sure,&#8217;&#8221; Ridley said. &#8220;So, it kept changing. So, then even as we were filming, I wasn&#8217;t sure what the answer was going to be.&#8221;</p><p>While her parentage was kept under wraps during the first two films, &#8220;The Force Awakens&#8221; and &#8220;The Last Jedi,&#8221; the Rey Kenobi reveal was ultimately scrapped.</p><p>Of course, notoriously protective &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; fanatics were quick to post their combined outrage at the filmmakers on Twitter.</p><figure id="attachment_16266389"  class="wp-caption alignright"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/09/daisy-ridley-03.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/09/daisy-ridley-03.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/09/daisy-ridley-03.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Daisy Ridley as Rey in &#8220;Star Wars: The Last Jedi.&#8221;</span><span class="credit">Lucasfilm</span></figcaption></figure><p>&#8220;Daisy Ridley was supposed to be Rey Kenobi, then Rey Nobody and then Rey Palpatine in the worst planned and written trilogy in the history of cinema,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/priceoreason/status/1303562879661150208" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">one disgruntled fan tweeted</a>. &#8220;Kathleen Kennedy, @rianjohnson and @jjabrams, everyday more proof is surfacing on how you blew it.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;I knew this garbage wasn&#8217;t planned,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/ninjadustpub/status/1303572658597093376" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">griped another Twitter user</a>. &#8220;How can you play so fast and loose with a billion-dollar franchise? It&#8217;s inconceivable.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;A very basic lesson in how not to tell a story ladies and gentlemen,&#8221; another tweeter <a href="https://twitter.com/EvanMonroe12/status/1303563264148692994" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">chimed in</a>, earning the immediate <a href="https://twitter.com/Spixru/status/1303571532992610304" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">response</a>:&nbsp;&#8220;How can something be this badly planned out? F&#8211;king hell.&#8221;</p><p>Ridley is just the latest featured franchise star to sound off about the sloppy treatment of their &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; character. British-Nigerian actor John Boyega <strong>fired off some racially charged statements</strong> last week in an interview with British GQ.</p><p>&#8220;They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley,&#8221; <strong>said Boyega</strong>, 28, who portrayed Stormtrooper-turned-Jedi Finn in &#8220;The Force Awakens,&#8221; &#8220;The Last Jedi&#8221; and &#8220;The Rise of Skywalker.&#8221;</p><p>He added that his on-screen &#8220;sidelining&#8221; came despite the fact that Disney pre-hyped his character as crucial to the plot. &#8220;[But] what I would say to Disney is do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side,&#8221; Boyega fumed. &#8220;It&#8217;s not good. I&#8217;ll say it straight up.&#8221;</p><figure id="attachment_16266562"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/09/daisy-ridley-04.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/09/daisy-ridley-04.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/09/daisy-ridley-04.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), Poe (Oscar Isaac), Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega) in &#8220;Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.&#8221;</span><span class="credit">Lucasfilm Ltd.</span></figcaption></figure>]]></content:encoded>
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