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But Ridley, 27, isn’t nailing the door firmly shut. Her face breaks into a grin as she starts to recount a scenario her co-star John Boyega (who plays the Stormtrooper-turned-Resistance-hero Finn) floated to her.

“John made a good point to me, though. If a new trilogy came out with a new trio, I would be very jealous. I would be like, ‘You know what Disney, I will take your call. Let’s talk. I want to be a part of this,'” she laughs.

Still, she hedges a little, pausing for a beat, before turning serious again.

“Realistically,” she says gazing up at a poster for the film, which has her front and centre, “I don’t know. I think it will make more sense when the film is out. For me personally, it’s not often that you get to do something that’s physically nuts and just so emotional… And I just got to do so much in this one that I don’t think anything could top it for this character.”

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In a separate interview with the Sun, Abrams, who returned to co-write and direct Episode IX after first stepping behind the camera for 2015’s Force Awakens, says the film marks a definitive end to the nine-film series.

“The trick of doing this movie was being aware of, intellectually and emotionally, the weight of this thing… it’s the ending of nine films that’s been 42 years in the making.”

Ridley echoed the finality of the story, revealing that if you have questions, like say, who her parents really are and why does she have that unusual connection to First Order Supreme Leader Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), you will get the answers you are looking for.