The Last Jedi Didn’t Tell Us Everything About Rey’s Parents, Says Director
This article contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Last Jedi There are some filmgoers who are upset about the anti-revelation regarding Rey’s unseen parents in The Last Jedi. After JJ Abrams set their identities up as a big mystery, Rian Johnson knocked it down in the latest film when Kylo Ren, aka Ben Solo, telepathically informed her that she is the progeny of no-name junk traders whose skeletons are buried in unmarked graves in the middle of nowhere. Johnson explained to Huffington Post that what Rey needed to hear about her parents in that moment was the last thing she wanted to hear. It’s a similar line of thinking to the famous scene in The Empire Strikes Back, he says. What made the scene powerful wasn’t just the reveal of Luke’s true dad, it was that it was an incredibly hard truth given the circumstances. It was “the hardest thing the character could possibly hear in that moment.” “What’s going to make life hardest on her? The easy thing would