Star Wars star Daisy Ridley weighs in on Rey's Palpatine heritage controversy and her role in determining who Rey's parents were in the new trilogy.
Daisy Ridley, the star of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, has weighed in on the controversy over Rey's parentage. With Star Wars: The Force Awakens opening the door to questions concerning the orphaned Rey's true heritage, the entirety of the sequel trilogy offers different explanations for who her parents could be.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY The reality that Rey is related to Emperor Palpatine drew heavy criticism, as the Rey parentage reveal makes the sequel trilogy worse, as it comes so late in the trilogy that another explanation entirely — that Rey is nobody — had already become widely publicly accepted. While the trilogy focuses heavily on the question, Ridley doesn't have the authority to determine Rey's parentage and its ensuing controversy.
"Well, J.J. [Abrams] was the one who was like, she is of no one, so it wasn’t just The Last Jedi where that was the message. What was interesting about the last one, for me, was that you can be a hero and not come from anywhere or you can be a hero and come from literally the worst person in the universe. You’re not your parents, you’re not your grandparents, you’re not your bloodline and you’re not the generations before you. So, I always was like, sure. But it’s beyond my pay grade.
Yet there remains the question of why Rey needed to become a Palpatine in the first place when Star Wars: The Last Jedi already reveals the identity of her parents as two nobodies who are little more than scavengers and who abandoned Rey. Her parents being irrelevant is also originally a reveal that fits Star Wars well by showing that Rey still is not her parents, as she is critical to the future of the universe.
Will Rey Appear In The Star Wars Universe Again? The current wave of Star Wars shows takes place long before Rey's birth, centering around the rise and fall of the Empire. The Mandalorian, Andor, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka leave little room for a Rey appearance, making the character's future shaky at best. While the Star Wars universe is moving towards a new trilogy, there is no way to know if it will revolve around Rey's future adventures or if it will avoid her entirely.
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