"intimidating" probably wouldn't be the first word that comes to mind when you think about Daisy Ridley, but that's exactly how the actress was told she comes across while filming Doug Liman's long-delayed sci-fi film, Chaos Walking.
During a new interview with Tatler magazine, Ridley opened up about a crew member calling her intimidating on set while she was preparing to shoot a scene, as well as a director labelling her as "quite aggressive" during a meeting.
“I’ve been told that I’m intimidating,” said the British actress. “That was on Chaos Walking. I was having my hair done, having my wig put on. I remember thinking, ‘God, should I be smaller? Should I be quieter?’ I’ve been called aggressive, too. My energy is ‘quite aggressive.’ That was during a meeting with a director.”
“I was thinking: ‘But why? Is it because I maintained eye contact? Is it because I’m passionate about what we’re talking about?’ I dunno,” Ridley continued. “You have that horrible sinking feeling of, ‘God, do I not come across the way I think I do?’”
Ridley also addressed her hesitance to delve into her personal life to any great extent during interviews.
“When I signed on to ‘Star Wars,’ there was nothing in my contract that said: ‘Your life will be talked about.' It got to the point where I realized so much of my life was out there. People knew my mum’s name, my dad’s name, what my sisters do for a living. And I thought it would be nice to have something that’s for me, that isn’t for everybody else. I just thought I would keep that separate.”
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Chaos Walking also stars Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, and David Oyelowo, and is set to hit theaters on March 5. You can check out the trailer below.