Joking about it last night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the actress – who plays Rey – revealed what she hoped was a joke made by her father on the set of The Last Jedi.
The team were in Ireland filming the scenes that pick-up directly from the end of The Force Awakens when Ridley Snr was introduced to Hamill.
“He likes [Star Wars],” Ridley said of her parent. “He came to the set.
“He came to Ireland when we were sort of re-doing the end bit for the beginning of The Last Jedi.”
When asked if her dad met Hamill, she added: “Yeah… I don’t know if he was joking, but he did say, ‘who do you play then?’”
As Fallon cringed, Ridley laughed and added: “He must have been [joking].”
The host also asked about the influence of the late Carrie Fisher.
“I think it was a lead by example thing,” Ridley said. “Carrie just never shrunk from what it is, what she was… everything.”
Fisher will give her final performance as General Leia in Star Wars: The Last Jedi when it is released on December 14.
Ridley has appeared on a slew of TV shows in recent days, talking also about the latest royal engagement.
She also confirmed that she has now seen a finished edit of the film.