“Well no, because, no… ” There is a very long and tense pause, before she insists that, actually, there is little difference between her experience and that of her co-star John Boyega, who grew up in south London to British Nigerian immigrant parents. As a caveat, I add that both of us have privilege, and it’s not a criticism I was simply curious to know what she thought. Well, I say, in terms of wealth, class, education – that kind of privilege, in knowing how to decode the rules in certain spaces. “The privilege I have – how? No, genuinely, how?”
I ask if she thinks it has been easier to be confident and navigate her celebrity because of the privilege in her life – of boarding school, her upbringing and so on? Ridley is suddenly incredulous.
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