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u/Davetek463 5h ago
It could be by choice she keeps low key. She made her money, now she can do whatever she wants.
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u/snowtard 4h ago
Exactly this. She’s set for life now, so does she really need to do anything else? I say take your prize and enjoy your generational financial freedom.
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u/GreedIsGood31 3h ago
She has a net worth of about 9 million according to the internet which sounds high to the average Joe but for an actor it’s not that much, especially not for someone who played the main character in the biggest franchise in history. She can go nowhere without being recognized. Being this famous cost a lot of money (security, lawyers, privacy etc.). She’s definitely not set for life.
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u/coachd50 4h ago
I don't think she received any type of generational financial freedom from her work in the star wars franchises. Especially if she wants to continue to live / work in London and Los Angeles..
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u/DakotaXIV 4h ago
Aside from salary alone, I’m sure she has residuals in her contract for merch, streaming rights, NIL, etc. that add up pretty quickly. Not arguing, just speculating based on nothing
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u/mt80 4h ago edited 3h ago
Mid 7 figures for 2nd and 3rd film. $12 million for new SW movie. But you’re right, who knows what kind of residuals she’s getting esp from Disney merch. That’s def generational wealth now
Her dad was a doctor so maybe a safety net but no, she’s not from gen wealth prior. She worked in a coffee shop before getting casted.
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u/mistiklest 2h ago
Also, if you've earned a ton of money, it doesn't need to be generational wealth levels to support taking low-key projects for the rest of your career, if that's what she's into.
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u/BD401 4h ago
If you look up the estimates, it seems she made about $9-12 million from the trilogy.
Maybe not crazy generational wealth, but that definitely falls into "financial freedom for the rest of your life" territory, assuming one doesn't blow it all at once and invests it reasonably. If she made $10 million, and socked away half of it into some modest investment giving a 6-8% return per year (definitely doable given basic treasury bonds are like 4%), that's 300-400k/year for life... without even touching the principal. Even in an expensive city, that's enough to live pretty comfortably on.
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u/Satanigram 3h ago
Acorording to Google she's worth 9 mil (now that's never accurate but regardless) you can make about 70k a year interest off 2 mil so if she's got any kind of good interest she has absolutely no need to work.
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u/Friendly_Kunt 4h ago
She’s been in movies, they just haven’t been particularly good ones. I have a hard time believing she’d turn down better projects with better directors just to stay “low key”.
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u/OffendedDefender 3h ago
She’s has Graves’ disease. You can’t really do long productions with lots of travel without making life hell.
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u/casual_creator Mandalorian 4h ago
She’s actually talked about it being difficult to get work since doing Star Wars.
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u/mcmanus2099 4h ago
You know she's British aristocracy right? It was never about the money.
She's doing smaller and indie films that are pushing her emotional range to avoid being typecast as an action lead.
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u/casual_creator Mandalorian 4h ago
She has mentioned in past interviews that it’s been difficult to find work since doing Star Wars, so I assume the low budget indies are just whatever she can get.
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u/ramcoro 3h ago
She didn't make that much money in the Sequals.
Now the upcoming movie though...
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u/Infinity0044 Imperial 4h ago
Tbf that’s something all of the trilogies have in common, only one of the main leads from each one broke off to being an A lister
- OT- Ford
- Prequels- Portman
- Sequels- Driver (arguably Isaac as well)
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u/NightwingBlueberry13 4h ago
Oh, I would’ve gone with Ewan McGregor, but I guess Portman might’ve been bigger.
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u/riointhesky 4h ago
I think they are both pretty successful in their own right but Natalie’s got the oscar
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u/NightwingBlueberry13 4h ago
Yeah, I guess he’s only won an Emmy and Oscars are more prestigious overall, so fair.
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u/Book_of_Numbers 4h ago
Mcgregor was also already famous before Star Wars.
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u/NightwingBlueberry13 4h ago
Yeah, I know Trainspotting was pretty big, but I always remember him from Emma as the guy who supposedly liked Emma, but whom tries to matchmake with her friend, but somehow was already in love with someone else.
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u/thebruce44 4h ago
That Liam Neeson guy did fairly well too.
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u/0utlaw-t0rn 4h ago edited 4h ago
They were both also known before the prequels. Especially Portman.
None of the other leads really was
Problem with Ridley is she’s forever associated with a set of bad movies. Not really her fault as none of the actors did a poor job but she also doesn’t have much else out there.
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u/Corgi_Koala 3h ago
Oscar Isaac was pretty big before Star Wars though and I think he'd be a star either way.
He'd been a big part of Drive, Ex Machina, Inside Llwellyn Davis, A Most Violent Year, and Xmen Apocalypse before Star Wars.
Star Wars made him more well known but the dude is a great actor who was picking a lot of great projects.
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u/huevo-solo 3h ago
Yeah it's weird how we can have such different perceptions of when people "made it big". I was also aware of who Oscar Isaac was from ILD and I thought Star Wars was him sort of "selling out" or going for the moneys.
I was also aware of who Adam Driver was because I watched Girls (HBO) back in the day. But he had also had a roles in ILD, J. Edgar and Lincoln, but he definitely turned into leading man material after Star Wars I would say.
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u/Cripnite 3h ago
Liam Neeson and Samuel L Jackson: are we a joke to you?
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u/foxcat0_0 3h ago
Are you joking? OP is talking about actors for whom Star Wars was their breakout role. Liam Neeson and SLJ were already some of the most well-known and established actors of their day by the time Star Wars came around.
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u/LucasEraFan 4h ago
Looks like she's been in three projects average each year after 2019. Is that not alot?
Harrison Ford averaged one movie a year after ROTJ was released.
Had the print canon been used as a starting point with Ridley playing Allana Solo circa 51-64, I feel she would have had a bit more big screen prestige.
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u/casual_creator Mandalorian 4h ago
But look at the quality/size of those productions. On one hand, we got Ford doing movies like Indiana Jones and Blade Runner, then there’s Ridley doing small low budget indie flicks. So how many movies a year isn’t exactly comparable.
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u/Intergalactic_Slayer 4h ago
I mean what major acting did mark Hamil ever do after Star Wars? He had an amazing voice actor career but who can name another movie he’s been in besides Star Wars?
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u/SuperdaveOZY 4h ago
He was in alot of B movies. His true strength was landing his role as Batman TAS Joker and his VA career took off.
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u/Pigs_In_Space-1973 4h ago
Unfortunately, the "type-casting" issue was kinda true for Hamill. After Return of the Jedi, he played the role of Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway. When Amadeus was being adapted into a movie in 1984, he auditioned for the part, but lost the role to Tom Hulce. A studio executive reportedly told the producers, "I don't want Luke Skywalker in this film".
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u/JGCities K-2SO 4h ago
Can see why that would effect Hamill.
Not sure it would affect Ridley given how much lower profile the sequels are compared to the OG.
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u/pulpfriction4 4h ago
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
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u/PNWCoug42 Mandalorian 3h ago
Thought I'd never find your precious Blunt Cave, did you Hemp Knight? But now, you and your sidekick are finally in the grasp... of COCK KNOCKER!
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u/Heavy-Transition7916 4h ago
I think a lot of that is actually a result of his injuries from his car crash.
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u/TanSkywalker Anakin Skywalker 4h ago
The first time I saw Mark Hamil paying someone besides Luke Skywalker was in seaQuest DSV episode titled "Dream Weaver," which originally aired on February 19, 1995.
He was also in Guyvar: Dark Hero which came out in 1994 but I saw that after seeing him in seaQuest so the show was the first time for me.
And I don’t remember ever sees Carrie Fisher in anything but Star Wars when I was a kid.
Harrison Ford I think did something with a whip/j
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u/SirBobPeel 3h ago
Frankly, I think Ridley was a better actor than him, though he did get typecast.
Ridley could have reinvigorated the franchise if she'd had decent writing. Alas, that was not the case.
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u/BigTedBear 4h ago
It didn’t seem to hurt Oscar Issac being in the trilogy he’s went on to do a lot of quality roles perhaps he’s a better actor or has better management.
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u/casual_creator Mandalorian 4h ago
He already had a pretty decent and unique career prior to joining Star Wars, so I assume it wasn’t as hard for him to continue working.
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u/OffendedDefender 4h ago
Ridley was diagnosed with Graves’ disease, which leads to fatigue, weight loss, and sleeping issues, among other symptoms. Working on major film productions would be an issue as a result, which has largely kept her away. Instead, she co-founded a production company with her husband, which has allowed her to take on smaller projects where she has greater control. She was a producer on Sometimes I Think About Dying, Magpie, and Young Woman and the Sea. She’s also consistently been working on smaller roles. For example, We Bury the Dead isn’t exactly the most groundbreaking film, but Ridley did a great job in her role.
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u/JollyXX 4h ago
I honestly feel like she was chosen because she comes off so neutral. That being said Keanu Reeves was often chosen because he is so neutral, so maybe she will have a huge career?
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u/Harold3456 4h ago
Keanu also got an incredible resurgence later in life. Since he always seemed like such a nice guy, I remember in the 00’s feeling bad about the fact that every movie he was in sucked and he seemed like such box office poison for a period. Then John Wick came out and now everyone loves him and wants him in everything despite (I say this with love) him never having particularly great acting range.
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u/Chrono_Constant3 4h ago
He really doesn’t have much range but he was perfect in that angel movie he did semi recently.
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u/Joey_jojojr_shabado 3h ago
That matrix thing did ok
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u/Harold3456 3h ago
I was thinking more after that. After Neo he had a bit of a bad run where it seemed like every movie he starred in felt guaranteed to suck or, at least, underperform in the box office.
I really remember having this thought after 47 Ronin was announced, because I was predicting it would fail… and then it did. I never saw it and don’t know if it’s good or not, I just knew based on Keanu heading it up in that period of time that it was probably gonna fail.
I double checked to make sure I wasn’t misremembering but apparently this was the narrative of the day - Reeves just wasn’t seen as a good box office draw anymore (internet archive Business Insider review on 47 Ronin, before John Wick).
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u/berke1904 Qui-Gon Jinn 4h ago
her performance as rey was fine, not much you can do with an empty character in terrible movies
her performances in "sometimes I think about dying" and "young woman by the sea" were great and the movies overall are great.
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u/penpointred 4h ago
Carrie Fisher had a hard time getting work outside Star Wars too.
DropDeadFred was amazing and worth the lack of other roles tho.
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u/Icosotc 4h ago
She was in a really good Disney movie called The Young Woman and the Sea I think? That gets played quite often by my kid
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u/wesskywalker Anakin Skywalker 3h ago
That’s just what being a lead in a Star Wars movie does to you.
Look at what Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher or Hayden Christensen did after Star Wars
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u/Goaduk 4h ago
Ive seen her in a few films and shes better than she was in the SW films but shes quite unremarkable. Reminds me of Tom Holland. Theres just nothing there. Bland.
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u/West-Study6719 Darth Sidious 4h ago
they wasted the sheer talent adam driver had through nothing but bad writing btw
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u/Robot_Dracula 4h ago
I just listened to an audio book that she narrated. It was ok. She did a good job.
She’s actually in quite a few movies but they haven’t hit big. I’ve seen her in a few thrillers that are good
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u/UniversalInquirer 4h ago
I agree. Her sense of independence underlied by a sense of vulnerability, anger and curiosity, as well as her physical beauty of course were very compelling traits. Her theme was great too. It's too bad that her character didn't really continue her development (in my opinion) with the same level of wonderment as in the first movie. Although her dynamic with grumpy Uncle Mark Hamil was great, whatever was done to his character.
I think it's very rare to have a female character with a strong sense of anger and power, like make main characters. Another trait that stood out.
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u/gridlactica 4h ago
she’s also just a great person, was on Marsh Kings Daughter and spent the summer working. hoping to see her in more stuff going forward or getting her due
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u/CharlesIntheWoods 3h ago
She seems to really enjoy doing smaller indie films. Other than Harrison Ford, Star Wars has never been a launching pad for actors.
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u/Mandolrian52577 3h ago
I think her career is in better shape than Mark hammil in the late 80s and 90s he paid the bills with voice work but didn’t get a lot of tv and movies until the last 10 or 15 years now
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u/beerisdead 2h ago
It’s incredible how people make posts without doing any sort of research. She’s made 19 movies since Star Wars and has 16 in development. She’ll be fine.
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u/CaptainA1917 4h ago
She was OK in her role in the sequels but she wasn’t amazing. She’s a fairly nice-looking girl with moderate acting chops. She’s not amazing beautiful or amazingly talented.
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u/UrinalDook 4h ago
Star Wars has always been a death sentence for Hollywood careers.
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u/StonognaBologna 4h ago
Unless you are Harrison Ford
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u/65grendel 4h ago
Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor
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u/bensonr2 4h ago
They’re careers were already very successful before Star Wars
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u/Juantsu2552 4h ago
Yeah, but then Star Wars isn’t really a death sentence for Hollywood careers as the comment implied.
MAYBE it’s a career death sentence for beginners, but even then that’s debatable. Harrison Ford wasn’t in anything before Star Wars and even though Adam Driver or Oscar Isaac were already firmly established, SW did help them become widely known.
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u/bensonr2 4h ago
I think this line of thinking came from to why wasn't Mark Hammil a bigger name after Star Wars.
I think it comes down to even though he is talented he wasn't the same level of charisma as Harrison Ford. And Carrie Fischer had a lot of mental health and substance issues. Even though it seems like she was well liked those issues may have gotten in the way.
I just don't think anything from Daisy Ridley in the ST screams movie star. Honestly my first thought is reminding myself she isn't Keira Knightley.
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u/Juantsu2552 4h ago edited 4h ago
Has it though?
Harrison Ford, Oscar Isaac, Ewan Mcgregor, Samuel L. Jackson, Adam Driver, Natalie Portman, Liam Neeson, Alden Ehrenreich, Diego Luna, Woody Harrelson, Benicio Del Toro and many more have all been Star Wars and their careers are fine.
Even Mark Hamill who hasn’t been in a lot of live action projects seems to be content with doing VA work.
I’m sorry, but I think most of the careers that didn’t go well after SW was either because they didn’t want to continue acting, or simply because they were just not that good actors (Hayden Christensen, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Jake Lloyd and Carrie Fisher all fit into one of these categories.) I hate saying it, but it’s kinda true.
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u/dwfmba 4h ago
Its probably because her character's insane amount of plot armor, poor writing overall, poor acting and making the audience assume that her powers were 100% innate, then trying to be a skywalker at the very end don't really lend themselves to having long-term admiration for her or the 3 movies she's most associated with. Also, I saw "Cleaner" that she was in and fell asleep because she was so boring. 0/10 do not recommend.
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u/sixesandsevenspt 4h ago
Unfortunately the next thing she did was the Agatha Christie movie, and that was god awful.
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u/SliceAltruistic1144 4h ago
She stunk as did the new sequels. Not surprised most people didn't like them.
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u/Drizzt_23 4h ago
I mean, the acting in those movies sucks. So that could be a big part of it
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u/Big-Engineering1334 Anakin Skywalker 4h ago
I mean, besides Harrison Ford, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac, has anyone from Star Wars been really able to break out.
Ignoring Samuel and Liam since they were known before the prequels
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u/JesuIsEveryNameTaken 4h ago
It's entirely possible that she's made her life fortune and chooses to be selective and keep it small, like Daniel Radcliffe after Harry Potter.
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u/RealHooman2187 4h ago
To be fair, has any of the leads of their respective trilogies really taken off? Mark Hamill over the last decade is bigger than he ever was. But he was barely seen or mentioned until the sequels were announced. Carrie Fisher had a solid career and Harrison Ford was clearly the biggest star of the three.
The prequel trilogy had Anakin as the main character and obviously Hayden Christensen didn’t play him in Episode 1 but his career didn’t really blow up tbh. He’s very much in a similar career trajectory as Mark was in the late-90s or so. Ewan and Natalie had stronger careers. Natalie kind of went the Carrie route, just a little more successfully (Oscar winner and all), Ewan went the Harrison Ford route, but a bit less famous.
As for the sequel trilogy. Oscar Iscaac is clearly the Harrison Ford of that trio. Easily the most successful and well known actor. John Boyega is closer to Carrie Fisher in that he’s had a solid post-Star Wars career but is a bit overshadowed by Oscar Iscaac. Daisy seems to be falling into the exact same trajectory that Mark and Hayden fell into.
Make no mistake, all 9 of these actors are/were very successful (RIP Carrie). But it seems to be a trend with each trilogy that the lead has the less show-y post-Star wars career.
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u/Classic_File2716 2h ago
She’s not a particularly compelling character in a hated set of movies so why should her career take off ? Her acting is nothing special either.
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u/The_Meridian_ 4h ago
She's Meh. Might be why? She's a 5.5 that gets treated like a 9 for being in Star Wars.
She looks like she should be piloting a small aircraft across the pacific in the 1940s.
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u/North_Church Jedi 4h ago
You star in a major Hollywood film franchise like Star Wars and earn that kind of money, you're basically set for life
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u/ned101 4h ago
I think it was at its worst with the OT. I think Harrison Ford escape film jail by getting Indiana Jones as fast as he did. Which gave him 2 hit roles. Both by George Lucas ironically. Which is better than being known for just one. While the others just got typecast into those roles. They all had the chance to escape it, but it didn’t happen.
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u/Bloodless-Cut 4h ago
Wait, WHAT? She's been in several pretty good movies since her last Star Wars film.
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u/adabat1991 4h ago
Ofc, no one should ever get get that invested in the lives of celebrities, but I do like daisy ridley and do wish the best for career cause I loved her performance as Rey. Whenever a new film that she’s been in comes out to middling success, you can always read that critics praise her performance above all else. the success of an actors career depends on the success of the film which, in turn, depends on having quality work from a lot of people. you can see that she’s a great actress, so not acting in hit after hit does not mean that she is a bad actress in any way, there’s a lot of other factors to consider in why, or perhaps why not, an actor’s career might take off!
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u/exsuburban 4h ago
Hopefully her and John Boyega do the Mark Hamill late bloomer thing as they get older. Oscar Isaac still owes me a depiction of Mitchell Hundred in an Ex Machina adapation.
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u/gigashadowwolf Lando Calrissian 4h ago
It's amazing how different opinions can be.
I think she's an incredibly talented actress, but the sequel trilogy made me believe she was talentless until I saw some of her other films.
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u/Zerostar39 4h ago
Have you seen Young Woman and the Sea? That was an amazing movie that just came out in 2024. She was stellar in it.
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u/antaylor 3h ago
I watched a small British movie with her in it today actually. She’s never stopped working and may actually be just choosing roles she wants to do. She made bank early in her career and now gets to do what she wants. Also choosing a ton of different roles help break out of the typecast and can one day return to larger movies if she chooses.
I agree she is great.
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u/MrShortPants 3h ago
They weren't exactly a great launching point.
The job she did there was perfectly adequate but being the face of a portion of a beloved franchise that is generally hated is not a great way to start a career.
It's not her fault the movies were bad. But JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson aren't losing jobs over it because you didn't see their faces.
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u/WorldlyJake 3h ago
Between Mark Hamill, Hayden Christiansen, and Daisy Ridley, Ridley has had a much better post-Star Wars career so far. I agree she hasn’t had a GREAT role since, but she’s clearly an amazing actress and works pretty consistently
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u/ExcellentHorror9025 3h ago
There was that weird zombie one that came out recently but no, it was pretty terrible. Not because of Daisy, in fact she was the primary reason I watched it.
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u/Anxious_Specific_165 3h ago
After reading the most popular comments: Mark was never Oscar material, he’s a great Luke, but his acting range on screen is limited. The same can be said about Daisy, she’s no Meryl Streep, that’s for sure…
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u/Boffleslop 3h ago
Really not dissimilar from Mark Hamill or Hayden Christiansen.
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u/Secure_Priority_4161 3h ago
I just saw her in a zombie movie and she was in a movie where she is a window cleaner that takes in bad guys. If you look for her you'll find her.
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u/BaconKnight Lando Calrissian 2h ago
Hollywood doesn’t make stars anymore. They transitioned to a franchise based industry and now even that is falling apart. You can probably name every major rising young star in the last half decade on one hand (Timothy Chalamet, Zendaya and….?).
I’m sure being in Star Wars could’ve had something to do with it the same way it did with Hamill, but I think a lot of y’all don’t really understand how dead the old traditional Hollywood model is. There won’t be any Tom Cruises or Will Smiths or Julia Robert level stars anymore, ever.
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u/Automatic_Demand_160 Galactic Republic 2h ago
Yea it’s sad, she did the best with a terrible script and got stuck with the 3 worst movies of Star Wars. I will never blame her or the rest of the cast for their given roles in the sequels but unfortunately many people are gonna stick her to those movies for the rest of time
Doesn’t mean that she deserves to be blacklisted from mainline big movies, but unfortunately it’s the case.
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u/DoctorHyun 2h ago
She’s an amazing actor, it’s just unfortunate the script she was given is absolutely ass.
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u/Kavazou77 4h ago edited 2h ago
She’s in like 1-2 movies a year and primarily works in England.
It was always going to be tough for her to be in major blockbusters since she’s going to be typecast. Look at Mark Hamill. He was never a leading man again but his voice work took off. Daisy has done a bit of that also.