Daisy Ridley studied blended martial arts fights for her position within the upcoming British motion flick Cleaner.
Finest identified for her position as Rey within the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Ridley will return to her motion roots in 2025 as Joey, a skyscraper window cleaner who battles terrorists who’ve taken over an workplace constructing in London. After all, Ridley’s character isn’t any strange window cleaner. She’s additionally an ex-soldier with a selected set of expertise that make her a nightmare for folks just like the movie’s important villain, performed by the always-intense Clive Owen.
To organize for the position, Ridley tried to soak up as many MMA fights as doable however discovered herself combating the sheer brutality of all of it.
“I tried to watch MMA fights,” Ridley, 29, mentioned in a latest interview with UPI. “Honestly, they’re so violent I struggled to watch that many of them.”
In the long run, Ridley received sufficient data from watching MMA to know precisely how she wished to play Joey.
“That level of aggression and that level of being very in your body, that was really the thing that was driving me physically for her,” Ridley mentioned. “One of the fights particularly is in a really contained area. So trying to figure out how to realistically battle someone while quite restricted physically was a challenge.”
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It’s actually not the primary time Ridley has needed to get bodily for a movie position. After all, she appeared as (spoiler alert) Rey Skywalker all through Disney’s Star Wars trilogy, The Drive Awakens, The Final Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker.
She’ll return to the position within the lately introduced Star Wars: New Jedi Order which is predicted to return out round Christmastime in both 2026 or 2027, although no official launch date has been introduced.
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Since her time battling Kylo Ren and the First Order, Ridley has taken on different bodily roles, together with her efficiency as English Channel swimmer Trudy Ederle in final yr’s Younger Girl and the Sea.
“Of course, there’s always physicality that lends itself to the role,” Ridley mentioned. “But the films that I get to do the physical stuff on screen are always great and always a challenge, but I’m also particularly tired when I finish those ones.”
Cleaner hits film theaters on Friday, February 21. Try the official trailer under:
