I went to the dentist last week and I said I was an actress, and everyone’s like, ‘Ooohhh.’ It still feels weird to me.” I felt like a total novice compared to everyone I worked with.
My sister asked me, ‘Why do people want to be actors?’ I had no answer. At her school, she credits her drama teacher as being “the first person that made me think I could do it as a profession. In one of the few interviews Ridley has given, she says she did not have a burning desire to act. She attended the fee-paying Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire, where she specialised in musical theatre, graduating in 2010.
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A great uncle was the actor Arnold Ridley, who appeared as Private Godfrey in the classic TV comedy Dad’s Army. Her mother works in communications for a bank and her father is a photographer. Ridley, 23, grew up in west London with four older sisters. Ideally, it needed to be people like Daisy – somewhat experienced, but mostly new to the game.” So they needed to be actors whom the audience could discover as these characters, not as actors they’d seen elsewhere. “It was exciting but also terrifying because we knew that there was going to be a certain level of scrutiny and expectation on who these people were going to be.
“That’s something I remember loving about the original trilogy: not having seen these people before,” he told Elle magazine. She auditioned five times for the film’s director, JJ Abrams.Ĭasting an unknown was entirely deliberate, Abrams said recently. Ridley had heard that the film-makers were seeing not just famous actors and she lobbied her agent to get her an audition.
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