After starring in a “Star Wars” trilogy, which virtually defines mainstream Hollywood blockbuster, did Daisy Ridley decide, “I want to go very independent, quirky, low-budget” and make “Sometimes I Think About Dying?”

Definitely not, Ridley, 31, declared in a Zoom interview.  “I wasn’t like, ‘I’ve done the big thing, now I want to do the small thing.’ It’s just I got sent the script and I loved the script and I wanted to work with Rachel (Lambert, the director, a Boston University alum).

“Honestly, it was really that simple in terms of making a decision. But I suppose in a sort of bigger way, I don’t have a course chartered. Basically, I don’t have a big grand plan.

“My intention really is to work with filmmakers I really admire and tell all different sorts of stories. I feel very lucky that I’m able to do different things and try different things.”

“Sometimes” is both character study and group drama. Ridley’s Fran Larsen is withdrawn, quiet, a bit different. In her small office in Oregon, everyone is more outgoing.  But then a fellow worker who loves movies asks her out – to dinner and a movie. New horizons do and don’t open up for Fran.

“I thought that Fran would be amazing to play because I recognized her not entirely in myself,” Ripley noted. “There are bits of her that I connect with, but I recognize her in many people that I’ve known in big parts and small parts.

“I felt like I knew her. So I would love to play her. But also, I love the other characters and I love the world. For me the film is the ultimate expression in human connection.

“Someone doing something that’s deeply, deeply uncomfortable, that takes a lot of bravery and a lot of guts to reach out a hand and say, ‘Okay, these are the things I don’t usually tell people but this is something that I’d like you to know about me.’

“Then to be received with such warmth and kindness by another person to me just felt wonderful and human. And I don’t think the story is sad. There were sad moments, but really, every time I finished the script, I felt hopeful.”

One reality of indie filmmaking is a stripped down budget means stripped away essentials. Jessica Chastain on her recent movie “Memory” spoke about doing her own makeup, no trailer, just the work.

“I actually didn’t do my own hair and makeup because I was like, I can’t,” Ripley revealed, smiling.

“No trailer? I was like, Okay, I love to hang out with people anyway. For me, I don’t make decisions based on size or really luxury.

“A lot of the time that trailer isn’t a necessity. People need to get away from the set in trailers on certain films. They need to do what they need to do.

“This was a job that relied on connection and people being together and people understanding what it was that we were doing. There was a room where we all sat together and I honestly wouldn’t have had it any other way.

“Because that also lent itself so well to the office feeling as connected as it does. Because we all had such a lovely time together.”

“Sometimes I Think About Dying” is in theaters and on streaming platforms Feb. 2