Daisy Ridley Thinks Baby Yoda is Cuter Than Porgs

Daisy Ridley Thinks Baby Yoda is Cuter Than Porgs

Disney is 1 for 2 in its attempts to create a new marketably adorable creature in the Star Wars universe, at least according to one of the stars of the current franchise trilogy. Daisy Ridley weighed in this week on the question of Baby Yoda's and the Porgs' relative cuteness. Read on for details.

Via The Hollywood Reporter.

Daisy Ridley has some strong feelings about the relative cuteness of "Baby Yoda" and the Porgs from the Star Wars universe.

The star of the series' sequel trilogy had some harsh words for the latter creatures when she appeared on The Tonight Show on Monday night to promote the franchise's last film, The Rise of Skywalker. Which is cuter, Baby Yoda (the name given by delighted social media users to a creature in Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian) or the Porgs (introduced in The Last Jedi), host Jimmy Fallon asked her?

"Baby Yoda," she said definitively. "Look, I'm not a big fan of the Porgs. We worked for six months on The Last Jedi and every interview, 'What about the Porgs?' I was on the set for six months, they were there for a day."

Her remarks followed a memorable appearance where she rapped the plot of the entire "Skywalker saga" up to The Rise of Skywalker. "Strike back/ rebels on Hoth attack," one rhyme went; others saw her rapping "Wasn't the plan/ suddenly Luke is in need of a hand," "Back in the day/ little boy Anakin loved to pod-race" and "Attack of the Clones/ 10 years' passed, Anakin's grown," to big audience applause.

When she sat down for an interview, Fallon started off by asking her whether she was allowed to tell anyone when she first got the role to star in The Force Awakens. "No. I told my mum, dad and sister, but I was going to quite an expensive gym and I was a bartender...so people knew something was going on," she said.

Get the rest of the story at The Hollywood Reporter.

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