"Star Wars" actress Daisy Ridley responded to Texas Sen.Ted Cruz after he dissed her character, Rey. On Feb. 11, Cruz tweeted in support of Gina Carano, the actress who was fired from "The Mandalorian" for several controversial posts.
In his tweet, Cruz insulted Ridley's character Rey in the sci-fi franchise by his reference to an "emotionally tortured Jedi." "Texan Gina Carano broke barriers in the Star Wars universe: not a princess, not a victim, not some emotionally tortured Jedi," he wrote. "She played a woman who kicked ass & who girls looked up to.
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