Thanks to Daisy Ridley, theres now a great disturbance in the Force.
Throughout Disneys new Star Wars trilogy, the burning question on the minds of a lot of fans was: Who the heck are Reys parents? It was a paternity test even Maury probably couldnt figure out.
Initially, Obi-Wan Kenobi seemed like a solid choice for a relation. Then, The Last Jedi suggested that she was nobody. Later, those theories were blown up when The Rise of Skywalker revealed that Rey was actually Palpatines granddaughter. OK. Sure.
But on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday, Ridley, aka Rey herself, explained that the questions about her characters true parentage also were weighing on the filmmakers minds. Apparently, there were plenty of answers.
At the beginning, there was toying with like an Obi-Wan connection, and then it really went there were like different versions and then it really went to that she was no one, Ridley told guest host Josh Gad . And then it came to episode nine and [director J.J. Abrams] pitched me the film and was like, Oh yeah. Palpatines granddaddy.
Or was he?
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Then two weeks later, he was like, Oh, were not sure, Ridley explained. So it kept changing. So then, even filming, and I wasnt sure what the answer was going to be.
That means your Obi-Wan theory was right at one point. Actually scratch that everyones theory was right at some point as the filmmakers seemed to struggle with the true identity of Reys parents.
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As the director, in the end, said: Palpatines granddaddy. (Never mind that he blew up in the original trilogy. Just forget that part.) Oh, also, a later novelization of Rise of Skywalker explained that Reys dad was just a clone of Palpatine . So yeah. But dont worry. Its much less confusing if you just never, ever think about it.
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Despite the ending of the trilogy and the lack of explanations you can watch Gad pepper Ridley with questions about Reys parents in the clip below:
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