Daisy Ridley Says Star Wars: The Force Awakens Revealed Rey's Parents

It’s nearly been a whole year since Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released and dominated every box office in the world, but since then two big questions were left in the air.

Who is Supreme Leader Snoke? & Who are Rey’s parents?

The both have come to many fan theories, the latter being suggested she’s a Solo, a Skywalker, or a clone of either Empire Palpatine or Darth Vader.

In a recent interview with Time Out, while promoting documentary The Eagle Huntress, the actress was asked if she was excited for the world to learn of Rey’s parentage in Episode VIII.

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“I thought a lot was answered in The Force Awakens,” she said. “Then after the screening, I went for a drink with my agent and everyone, and we were chatting away and I realised that oh, in their minds it’s not answered at all!”

This quote will most likely to get everyone getting out their Force Awakens DVD or Blu-ray and rewatch it again.

Meanwhile, I believe there are only three – five people in the world who knows of Rey’s history (it’s probably more, but under 10 people) and that’s Ridley, JJ Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy. Plus, I think you could add Episode VII director Rian Johnson and Episode IX director Colin Trevorrow.

However, I do believe her that a member of her family was in The Force Awakens and I’m leaning more and more towards she’s the granddaughter of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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Digital Spy has done a pretty damn good case study and we both had the same reasons. Click here to read more.

There’s also a specific rumour by Entertainment Weekly writer Anthony Breznican when he was talking to a recent podcast, saying “I have heard rumours that the one reason they haven’t moved sooner on Obi-Wan is that they’re not done with Obi-Wan quite yet in the saga films. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see an Obi-Wan (solo film) happen beyond Episode XI.”

I strongly believe we’ll see a force ghost of Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan in Episode VIII talking to Luke Skywalker, but also he and Skywalker will explain to Rey about her parents and family.

Mainly because it’ll help when the Obi-Wan spinoff happens.