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Star Wars: Rey’s Parents Are Not In The Force Awakens, Says JJ Abrams

If there’s one key question ‘Star Wars’ fans have been left with after ‘The Force Awakens,’ it’s that of where our new Jedi-in-waiting, Daisy Ridley’s Rey, actually came from.

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We know she was abandoned on the desert world of Jakku as a little girl, and that she has grown to adulthood on her own - yet somehow has an innate ability to do, well, just about anything.

The internet was quickly awash with speculation as to whether she might be a Skywalker - or a Kenobi, given that she hears Obi-Wan’s voice in a vision. Then since the premiere of the ‘Rogue One’ trailer, some have pondered whether Felicity Jones’ Lyra Erso could be Rey’s mother.

‘The Force Awakens’ director JJ Abrams has at last entered the Rey fray (sorry), to give some advice to those desperately searching for clues.

In an audience Q&A at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, Abrams told a young fan, “Rey’s parents are not in Episode VII. So I can’t possibly say in this moment who they are. But I will say it is something that Rey thinks about, too.“

Later, the director expanded on this statement ever-so-slightly, telling Entertainment Weekly, “What I meant was that she doesn’t discover them in Episode VII. Not that they may not already be in her world.”

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Either way, this would seem to definitively rule out any chance of Rey being the child of either Leia Organa or Luke Skywalker - although a Kenobi connection still seems within the realms of possibility.

Of course, whether or not it even really matters who Rey’s parents were is another matter entirely, it seems…

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ is out now on home entertainment. The as-yet untitled Star Wars Episode VIII, from director Rian Johnson, is now in production, and is due to open in UK cinemas on 15 December 2017.

Picture Credit: Lucasfilm/Disney, WENN

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