After the Force awoke in 2015, Star Wars fans found themselves debating one question above all others. Who were Rey's parents, and why would they abandon her in a galactic hell-hole like Jakku?
Now for the first time Lucasfilm has signaled that we'll get the answer in The Last Jedi this December — but the director of the movie appears to be doing his best to tamp down expectations around the answer.
"It's important insofar as it's important to her," director Rian Johnson tells EW.
Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey, agreed that the answer wouldn't matter all that much. "It’s not like, oh, I know who my parents are so now everything falls into shape," she told the magazine. Read more...
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