Daisy Ridley On Star Wars And More

Via Empireonline.com:
A new documentary is out this week, and it features a voice you may be familiar with. The Eagle Huntress tracks the story of 13-year-old Aisholpan, the first female eagle hunter in Kazakhstan, and it boasts a narration from Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley. We spoke to Ridley about how she became involved with a low-budget documentary – as well as the obligatory Star Wars questions.

How did this film first enter your radar?

I actually didn’t know how it had entered. My agent sent it to me – and it’s now been revealed that [executive producer] Morgan Spurlock sent it to my agent. I watched it and was totally blown away by it. I watched it that evening and was like [puts on crying voice] “oh my God, how can I be part of this?” So I was on a call with Morgan and Otto [Bell, The Eagle Huntress director] later that week, which was the night before the film’s Sundance premiere. Initially I just came on as executive producer, and then they wanted to edit it a bit, to make it slightly more accessible to kids – just because there’s a lot going on. Just those little…Otto describes them as “hand holds”. So I was able to narrate too!

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