Daisy Ridley says she got support from J.J. Abrams, Josh Gad, and Lucasfilm’s head of marketing after she clapped back at Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
Following Disney’s firing of “The Mandalorian”‘s Gina Carano over racist social media posts, Cruz seemed to diss Ridley’s “Star Wars” heroine Rey by calling her “some emotionally tortured Jedi” in his defence of Carano.
After Cruz took an ill-advised trip to Cancun while Texas was in crisis last month, Ridley got her opportunity to hit back saying, “I am very happy to be an emotionally tortured Jedi who doesn’t leave their state when it’s having a terrible time” during an interview.
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