Exclusive: Daisy Ridley tells us about her Die Hard throwback, Cleaner, a movie which sees her dangling from the side of a building and fighting terrorists.

Daisy Ridley has never loved heights. That might be surprising for some who naively believe a Jedi cannot experience fear. But more realistically, it’s simply impressive since her new action-movie, director Martin Campbell’s Cleaner, stars Ridley as a window-cleaner… who must dangle precariously off the side of a building for much of the film’s taut 96-minute running time after terrorists commandeer the building she’s working in.

“It came to it,” Ridley says of the day she was first harnessed mid-air, “and I thought ‘I really don’t like this.’ Of course I knew I wouldn’t really be dangling on the side of a building, but there was a time where Martin said, ‘Oh we are actually going to shoot as much as possible on the side of a building.’”