


The second sign arrives when a Stormtrooper removes his helmet to reveal the face of a black man, English actor John Boyega, whose character, Finn, emerges as a conflicted combatant central to the action.įULL COVERAGE: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Rey’s sensible wardrobe is the first indicator of a change in the galaxy, and the movie keeps them coming like X-wings on the horizon.

Rey is costumed as a woman might dress herself, for herself. She wears no high-heeled shoes, no copper-plated bikini, no princess robes. The first sign that “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is different from the six “Star Wars” films that came before it arrives when Rey, the protagonist played by 23-year-old English actress Daisy Ridley, appears on-screen in a weather-beaten tunic, slouchy pants and a pair of rugged boots perfectly suited to a hardscrabble life of scavenging on her desert planet.
