Daisy Ridley Previews Her Trailblazing New VR Game Arriving Next Month [Exclusive]
Star Wars star Daisy Ridley has a new project in the works that will shine a light on an under-appreciated part of automotive history. She'll voice the first woman ever to take a road trip in a car in the new virtual reality game Trailblazer.
She spoke about it with Collider's Steve Weintraub at a Q&A following our early screening of Cleaner, at which Leah Marilla Thomas was in attendance. Ridley outlined the story of the game, and its depiction of a historically significant event:
"It's the story of Bertha Benz, who was the first woman ever to do a road trip, basically. Her husband had invented an automobile, but he had crashed it. It had all gone wrong. And it was illegal for women to be out doing anything like that in those times. So she snuck off in the car and did this sixty-mile journey. In the process, she had to figure out gearing, she had to figure out the water system; there were various things she did along the way. In the age of innovation, she was really a real, proper trailblazer."
