It seems Rey (Daisy Ridley) was having doubts despite her willpower, as her Ridley has revealed that she had issues with the script for "Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi," much like Mark Hamill, who plays her mentor Luke Skywalker.
However, it was not as bad as Hamill's concerns over the script since those were about Luke as a character spiraling down an twisted path. Ridley's reservations with the script were about her screen time with her character's best friend forever (BFF) in the last movie, Finn (John Boyega), who was a turncoat stormtrooper from The First Order.
"Well I, like Mark, had some reservations about the script. I thought, 'Where is John [Boyega]? He's away from me, and I don't want to be away from him.' Getting into something like this is pretty overwhelming, and John was my guy the whole way through filming and press stuff, and it was scary. It was really scary thinking about the next chapter with us apart. And I expressed that to Rian," said Ridley during a British Academy Film Awards Nomination Announcement (BAFTA) Q&A.
Rey being apart from Finn meant that Ridley and Boyega also had to spend some time apart during the off hours in the set as their characters had to be shot in different locations. This allegedly made Ridley more neurotic, which the actress even voiced out to Rian Johnson, the director.
Still, despite this, the actress pushed on and overcame her lack of Finn, where their two weeks to rehearse had Ridley getting used to being away from her BFF not just in the movie but also in the set. Johnson was also praised for compelling the characters to perform outside their comfort zones, and this much was true for Ridley's Rey, where she spent a good chunk of the movie training to be a proper Jedi.
Because of this, Hamill claimed that Johnson was able to bring out the best in their characters.
