An audition tape of Daisy Ridley for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been revealed, and it seems the force was strong from the outset.
In a video set to feature on the upcoming DVD/Blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director JJ Abrams explains how Daisy Ridley came to snatch the part of Rey.
‘What we were looking for was someone new,’ JJ Abrams explains in the clip. ‘This character needed to be vulnerable and tough, sweet and terrified. And to find someone that no one knew could do all these things took a lot of looking.