Adam Driver may have let potential spoilers slip about Rey in a new interview promoting Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Speaking with GQ Magazine, Driver speaks thoughtfully about his character and the life of Star Wars actor. But fans have been drawn less to the actor’s thoughts on Kylo Ren, and more to comments Driver makes about Rey’s identity.
Potential The Last Jedi spoilers ahead — turn back now to remain on the Light Side!
Seriously. Last chance.
In the new interview, Driver muses on the parallels between his character and Daisy Ridley’s Rey. In that context, he refers to “the hidden identity of this princess who’s hiding who she really is so she can survive and Kylo Ren and her hiding behind these artifices.”
(Emphasis ours.)
That’s right folks — Adam Driver has said that Rey is a princess, and intimated that she knows her own true identity.
Now, it’s certainly possible that Driver’s disclosure will make more sense in context (the full GQ interview will be available on Thursday.) But “princess” is a pretty unambiguous word, and one that bears significant weight in the Star Wars universe. From Luke and Leia’s mother’s styling as Queen Amidala to Princess Leia as the last scion of Alderaan, royalty as portrayed in this galaxy has been almost exclusively connected to the Skywalker lineage.
And as fans know, Leia has moved on from the title, preferring to be known as General Organa in the new era. Which, if you think about it, leaves a very significant space open for the galaxy’s next mysterious daughter.
Does Driver’s quote suggest that Rey is Han and Leia’s missing and unmentioned child? Could Rey be Luke’s daughter, and lay claim to the title of princess that way? Or might she be a different kind of royalty — a descendant of a new planet, or even (as some speculate) the daughter of the Emperor himself?
Suffice to say, in spite of Adam Driver’s seemingly revelatory words, there remains plenty of space in which to speculate. But with less than 50 days to go before The Last Jedi, fans had better start hoarding these clues like a scavenger; we never know where the truth might be found.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi arrives in theaters on Dec. 15.