Each Star Wars trilogy wants its personal romance. The Authentic Trilogy had Han Solo and Leia Organa (let’s simply proceed pretending just like the Leia and Luke kiss by no means occurred), the Prequel Trilogy had Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala, and the Sequel Trilogy had Rey and Kylo Ren… or fairly, snuck it in on the final minute. Reylo followers lastly received what they wished when Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver’s characters kissed in the direction of the top of The Rise of Skywalker. Nonetheless, John Boyega is certainly not a fan of this ship and gave an incredible rationalization for why he doesn’t just like the pairing.
This matter got here up when Boyega was talking with Glad Unhappy Confused host Josh Horowitz at C2E2 and he was requested throughout the viewers Q&A if Finn and Poe Dameron would have accepted the connection between Rey and Ben Solo had the latter lived. The Finn actor began off by saying:
No… I imply, look, straight girls within the room, when he’s pursuing you, him attempting to kill you isn’t part of the romance. Chasing him and saying, ‘We will grow to be one thing highly effective!’ I’m there like, ‘I wouldn’t inform my sisters to try this.’
I imply… he’s not unsuitable. Kylo Ren began off his “relationship” with Rey in The Pressure Awakens by kidnapping and mentally torturing her, and by the top of the film, they’d lightsaber dueled and Rey had given him the scar on his eye. Their relationship turned difficult in The Final Jedi when Rey and Kylo saved attempting to sway the opposite to hitch their aspect, after which The Rise of Skywalker revealed that the 2 shared a Pressure dyad with one another. However the level nonetheless stands that for almost all of time they knew one another, Rey and Kylo had been in battle, so Boyega’s not unsuitable for being leery about them getting romantic with one another.
Finally Ben Solo turned his again on his Kylo Ren identification in The Rise of Skywalker and raced to Exegol to assist Rey battle Palpatine and the Sith Everlasting. So Rey was proper about there nonetheless being good in him, which John Boyega acknowledged within the following remark, although he thinks Finn would have tried to place the kibosh on her and Ben’s smooch time had he been close to them on Exegol:
That sort of displays off of the religious aspect to Star Wars, the truth that she acknowledged the great and was preventing for it. But when I used to be Finn there, Finn ought to have had a line the place he stated, ‘Lady, depart him be. Come dwelling with me.’
Rey died after reflecting her grandaddy Palpatine’s Pressure lightning again at him to kill him for good (fingers crossed), however Ben Solo then used the Pressure to revive her at the price of his personal life. So their time collectively as love pursuits was short-lived, and if Boyega had his manner, it wouldn’t have occurred in any respect. It’s high quality if you happen to disagree with him about this, though I’m positive there are many Star Wars followers who agree with the actor that Rey and Finn ought to have been paired collectively as a substitute.
Be happy to make use of your Disney+ subscription to revisit The Rise of Skywalker or any of the opposite Star Wars films. In any other case, prepare for the franchise set in a galaxy far, distant to return to the large display when The Mandalorian & Grogu opens on Might 22, 2026.