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Was Good in the First One


She looked really enthusiastic, really thrilled to be part of this. She was the best thing about the first film.

Then she died inside.

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I think she was fine in all three of them, especially when you consider the material she's working with.

The Last Jedi has this really dark tone and should be relentless, given how it tries to brutalise Luke and the Jedi and all that (don't meet your heroes, and so forth). But it's not. It's got these awkward comedy beats like "Put your shirt on" and when Rey slices that rock and almost hits the caretakers. So it's tonally weird. Does Daisy Ridley seem a little off-balance throughout? Sure. Who wouldn't be? Mark Hamill managed to elevate his material 1,000%, but basically nobody else did. Same with the last one: what was she working with? Well, within the confines of 50% fetch quest, 30% "quick, un-do The Last Jedi!", and 20% "Okay, that's pretty cool...." I think she was okay.

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I only saw the first one and thought she was crap in it, Americans tend to like her posh English accent, but she's just being herself, there seems to be little range in her acting skills and in the Star Wars movie she came across to me like she was acting in a school play or pantomime, I can see why the awful JJ had his doubts about her.

She'd be just about passable in something like Downtown Abbey but only as a posh upper class woman, Ridley hasn’t got the skills to play a working class girl or even a middle class professional unlike Rose Leslie (Ygritte, Game of Thrones) for example, who is posh like Daisy Ridley but can act unlike Daisy Ridley.

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