themandalorianwolf:
How do I know about Daisy and John, or just Daisy?
I do both anyway 🙂
Daisy, by her own words, cried her eyes out when reading the TLJ script and finding out Rey and Finn would be apart from each other and had gone to RJ to talk about the script (link). The only other thing she ever says about TLJ is the same as Mark did after undoubtedly Disney told him to stop speaking his mind, she would always say “It’s good to be pushed out of your comfort zone” or that “TLJ didn’t feel like a sequel to TFA, but it’s own thing.” I think that’s as close as we’re ever going to get to a professional who gets their bred and butter from Disney ever talking against a movie from them. Though Daisy did say after a rough day on set filming TLJ that she was never going to play Rey again after IX. This was also at the time Daisy thought that Johnson would be doing IX since Colin was already let go at this time for IX.
John behaved more vague about his dislike of TLJ, but it doesn’t take much to see that he didn’t enjoy it at all. His enthusiasm for EP-VIII seemed to have died down through the months until it all but faded completely and he often said the same things as Daisy, that it was hard to be separated from each other and how different things were from TFA. I mean half of all his plot relevant scenes were cut, but there was plenty of Canto light Bright, Tiddy milking, Ben Swallo, and Holdo pissing contents with Poe left in, so I don’t think it’s a far stretch to believe he hated it even if he hadn’t spoken out as much as Mark and Daisy. Remember, John doesn’t want to end up like Terrance Howard.
Thanks for the Ask! Sick avatar.
Also remember Daisy’s ecstatic reaction at finding out JJ and not RJ would be doing IX, and how JJ regretted not staying for VIII (link)?