Just like Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher before her, relative unknown Daisy Ridley is now a superstar thanks to “Star Wars!” The 23-year-old Londoner’s whole life changed when she was cast in the new blockbuster “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens.” Here are 10 things you didn’t know about the fresh-faced bad-ass beauty taking the universe by storm!
1) Daisy was waitressing in a London pub when she nabbed the role of Rey in February 2014.
2) Her favorite movie from childhood is 1996’s “Matilda.” Daisy “aspired to be just like her,” she says.
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3) Everything about “The Force Awakens” was so hush-hush that she kept her huge gig a secret for three months.
4) She cried while watching the movie trailer for the first time.
5) She has two middle names: Jazz and Isobel.
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6) Daisy and the new “Star Wars” robot BB-8 got their own UK postage stamp in October 2015!
7) “Someone asked me if I found it easier to date now because I’m in the film,” she confesses. “I was, like, ‘What the hell?’”
8) Since being cast, she went from a few hundred followers on social media site Instagram to nearly 600,000!
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9) She got her first tattoo — a star on her foot — when she was 15.
10) Playing a nimble junk salvager in the sci-fi sensation meant a grueling training regimen. Daisy’s diet included “lots of fish, legumes and spirulina shakes.”
