January 2, 2025 9:15 pm

Daisy Ridley Shares How She Bonded with Husband Tom Bateman Making Magpie
Daisy Ridley Shares How She Bonded with Husband Tom Bateman Making Magpie

Daisy Ridley Shares How She Bonded with Husband Tom Bateman Making Magpie

It’s always an intriguing start when a film project launches from the minds of a real-life couple. Magpie credits Tom Bateman as its writer, but his wife Daisy Ridley (Star Wars, Young Woman and the Sea) helped him conceive the idea from the get-go, as we recently learned. MovieWeb spoke with Ridley amid the release of their gripping neo-noir and opened up about their hands-on collaborative process through bringing the film to life on the page, including a wildly surprising twist in the third act (no spoilers).

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​The Star Wars alum spoke to MovieWeb amid the release of her neo-noir film Magpie, which she conceived, and her husband wrote. Read More