Why did Leia hug Rey?

While a mistake in real life, the canon reason that Leia embraces Rey before Chewbacca is due to Leia seeing Rey as a lost soul and surrogate daughter, establishing a strong relationship that will grow through the sequel trilogy.

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What is Rey's relationship to Leia?

Powerfully Force-sensitive, Rey trains to be a Jedi under siblings Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, and faces adversaries such as Kylo Ren, Supreme Leader Snoke and the resurrected Emperor Palpatine—who is revealed to be her grandfather in The Rise of Skywalker.

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Why does Leia ignore Chewbacca?

According to one theory (via Reddit), the pair had a specific reason for avoiding each other: Chewbacca was observing a Wookiee mourning ritual. Based on Wookiee customs, Chewbacca could not seek comfort from others yet, but he could still work to save others.

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Why did Leia hug Rey and not Chewie reddit?

New Canon claims Leia hugs Rey instead of Chewie after Han dies because Rey symbolizes the orphan childern of Alderaan.

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What did Rey want to tell Leia?

Rey asks Leia if she could tell her more about Ben's fall to the dark side, explaining that she wants to understand him. Rey also tells Leia how she wishes to help Ben, but when Kylo Ren asked her to join him on the Supremacy, she was disappointed as she realized that he just wanted her to be like him.

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Who is Rey the daughter of?

Rey was born on Hyperkarn in 15 ABY during the rise of the New Republic. Her father, Dathan, was a bioengineered Strand-Cast cloned from the genetic template of Darth Sidious, the Sith Lord who ruled the Galactic Empire as Emperor Palpatine.

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Why does Leia comfort Rey?

While a mistake in real life, the canon reason that Leia embraces Rey before Chewbacca is due to Leia seeing Rey as a lost soul and surrogate daughter, establishing a strong relationship that will grow through the sequel trilogy.

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Why didn t Leia wear a bra in Star Wars?

What is this? Her breasts were taped down with gaffer tape, as she wasn't allowed to wear a bra underneath. “There is no underwear in space” she once joked.

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Why doesn t Princess Leia wear a bra?

"So they put the dress on me the first day and bring me to George," Fisher said on HBO's Wishful Drinking. "He takes one look at me and he says, 'you can't wear a bra underneath that dress', so I said, 'why?' , and he said, 'because there's no underwear in space'.

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Why does Leia kiss Luke twice?

Following the Wampa attack during the movie's opening scenes on Hoth; Leia, Han, and Chewie visit Luke in the infirmary. Leia is annoyed with Han, who insists she has feelings for him, so she kisses Luke to prove she doesn't. Presumably, the scene was simply meant to make Han jealous.

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Was Chewbacca sad when Han Solo died?

Han dying at his son's hands after reaching out with open arms was already tragic and was made even more heartbreaking as Chewbacca, Rey, and Finn witnessed it happen. Leia also sensed this devastating loss through the Force.

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Why did Vader not recognize Leia?

However, Leia's strong-mindedness during Vader's probe denied him the opportunity to discover she was his daughter. That serves to justify Vader's lack of awareness of his connection to Leia, although, perhaps, not as satisfyingly as if Lucas had planned for the relationship from the beginning.

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Why didn't Yoda train Luke and Leia?

In short: He felt Luke wasn't ready. Yoda was the grandmaster of the fallen prequel-era Jedi Order and trained Jedi for centuries, with students typically beginning as young children. He saw too much of Anakin in the young adult, and he didn't want to end up training the successor to Vader.

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Is Rey pregnant with Ben's baby?

She does not have a baby bump, her hand never goes to her stomach to indicate she's carrying a child, and there wasn't exactly any time for her to have conceived a child with anyone in the course of the film, including Kylo Ren/Ben Solo.

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Why did Rey kiss Kylo?

And then, wonder of wonders, she leaned forward and kissed him. A kiss of gratitude, acknowledgement of their connection, celebration that they'd found each other at last.

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Who did Palpatine have a child with?

One could theorize that he bore a child through some sort of space artificial insemination, or something closer to what we've seen in canon Star Wars material. In the canon comic Darth Vader No. 25, it is revealed that Palpatine somehow used the Force to manipulate midichlorions to impregnate Shmi Skywalker.

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Did Padme not wear a bra?

She was not allowed to wear a starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Brassiere on set because of the “no underwear in space” rule. Instead, the costume designers had her cover certain areas with gaffer tape, which is incredibly sticky and painful to remove.

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Why does Leia look older than Luke?

Leia's journey yields a time dilation of 62.6 days; however Luke experiences a time dilation of 700.8 days. The students concluded that Luke is therefore 1.75 years younger than Leia, possibly rendering them the first twins ever to have more than a year between their ages.

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What is Princess Leia secret name?

Through adoption, Leia Amidala Skywalker became known as Leia Organa, Princess of Alderaan.

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Did Jabba do anything to Leia?

Jabba the Hutt never had sex with Leia or any other slave girl in his palace because he was and had always been in love with Han Solo.

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Why does Leia never mention Obi Wan?

Theory 1: Leia Doesn't Remember Ben Is Obi-Wan

Throughout her encounters with Kenobi in the series, he refers to himself as Ben. The most straightforward explanation would be that Leia knows the person who rescued her is Ben, and never connected the dots that Ben is actually Obi-Wan.

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Does Darth know Leia is his daughter?

Darth Vader only learned he had a daughter in Return of the Jedi - but there's no evidence he realized she was Leia before his death and redemption.

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Why wasn t Leia upset when Obi Wan dies?

Leia does not seem to react to tragedy. Instead, she has this wonderful ability to stay perfectly alert, reasonable, and careful of the feelings of others. She witnessed the destruction of her entire planet, and still had the mental and emotional strength to escape with Luke and Obi-Wan.

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Who turned down the role of Princess Leia?

Even though she would have been a young teen when filming Star Wars, Jodie Foster was reportedly a top choice to play Princess Leia by George Lucas. Despite having the offer to play the role of Leia, Foster turned down the role due to scheduling conflicts, as Foster was filming Taxi Driver at the same time.

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Did Leia give her lightsaber to Rey?

Whose Lightsaber Does Rey Have at the End of The Rise of Skywalker? In addition to her own yellow lightsaber, Rey Skywalker has Leia's lightsaber and the Skywalker lightsaber (which belonged to Anakin, Luke and Rey herself) at the end of The Rise of Skywalker.

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