Daisy Ridley remembers nearly choking to death in episode of ‘Casualty’

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Daisy Ridley has remembered the time she nearly choked to death during an episode of BBC hospital drama Casualty.In a new interview with The Guardian, a reader wrote in and said that they thought they’d spotted Ridley as a teenager in a training film about CPR [cardiopulmonary resuscitation].Ridley confirmed that she was indeed the teenager in the video – and then went on to detail how she had her own emergency in the same year the video was filmed when she appeared in an episode of Casualty.She explained: “It’s an interactive video where someone has collapsed, I give them CPR, then there are talking points.

I remember it was absolutely freezing in Covent Garden flower market and we were knee-deep in water because it had been raining.

But if being part of a CPR training video has genuinely helped to save someone’s life, that’s pretty amazing.”She continued: “The same year, I almost choked on a throat sweet in an episode of Casualty after a ghost train had a terrible crash at the funfair.

Apparently, it was the scariest ghost train in the UK, so they just filmed us going round and round, which was terrifying. And that was before I nearly choked to death.”Earlier this month, Ridley opened up about distress she felt following an 2019 interview in which she was asked about her “privilege” growing up compared to her Star Wars co-star John Boyega.Ridley starred as Rey alongside Boyega in three Star Wars outings, films The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019).The comments, which were made in a Guardian interview, came after Ridley was asked by the interviewer about her “privileged” upbringing.