If 2019 was tinged with sadness as the year the Skywalker Star Wars trilogy came to a close, for
John Boyega and Daisy Ridley 2020 is full of promise. Launched into icon status by the mega-
franchise, the question is this: what do you do after you’ve headed up the biggest films of the
decade? Well, if you’re Boyega, you star in Naked Singularity, a film that sounds like a Channel 4
dating show but is actually based on a wide-ranging, maximalist novel described by the Guardian
on its release as “ambitious, affecting, intelligent, plangent, comic, kooky and impassioned” (the plot,
insofar as there is one, is far too complicated to explain – no pressure, then). For Ridley, it’s a Peter
Rabbit sequel alongside James Corden and the lead role in Chaos Walking, which is a sci-fi about an
orphaned young woman with psychic powers, so you can see why they might have asked for her.The New HopesJohn Boyega
& Daisy Ridley
Presenters Bafta Fellowship
John wears Dolce & Gabbana
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