Daisy Ridley has dubbed the 'Mary Sue' criticism of her Star Wars character sexist.

To recap: some haters have suggested that Rey's ability to turn her hand to a variety of tasks (flying spaceships, wielding lightsabers, using the force) with apparent ease made her a 'Mary Sue'-type character.

The term is an archetypal generalisation of a female character for whom things come easily.

However, Daisy, who plays the scavenger pilot in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, not only disagrees with the Rey/Mary Sue comparisons, but wants to bin the term altogether – and quite rightly, too.

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"I don't buy the Mary Sue thing anyway," she said in a recent interview.

"I find the term sexist in itself because it's Mary Sue. I don't think there's a thing called Ryan Craig.

"When I was doing it, I never felt sure of what was going on. It wasn't like, 'This is happening, and I'm so powerful and look at me go'."

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She added: "Essentially, all I found Rey trying to do in the first one was trying to do the right thing; like, she was trying to help BB-8 and then she's trying to help Finn and now she's trying to help the Resistance.

"It's not a sort of self-centred power that she's just exhibiting, because also she didn't ask for anything in the first one."

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is in cinemas now.

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