Kelly Marie Tran Reflects on What It Meant to Be Cast in Star Wars

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The Star Wars star opens up about the good and bad that comes with rising to meet the expectations of representation.

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universe as a first generation Asian-American when she was cast as Rose Tico inwhat she went through“Oh, my God, impossible things are possible” she shared, “...that was the best part of it. And on the other end it was just vitriol. I think it needs to be acknowledged and I don’t really know what to say about it other than every experience in life has good and bad things that come with it.

and bringing awareness to it during AANHPI month, “I never thought to myself that I would actually get it.” she said, “I grew up watching those movies and they are all white. So I just was like, ‘Oh, I’m obviously not gonna get this, but one day I’ll tell my grandchildren how lucky I was to audition for this thing, and that was a cool thing that I did’.”The Last Jedi.

Something that she only dreamed of while growing up with immigrant parents and that caught her family by surprise, “I would say that because of the world that I grew up in, there a lot of things, instinctually, that I do or that I think that I have to unlearn, because I was so socialized to believe that certain people belong in certain spaces and other people don’t.

Opening up about auditioning for Star Wars, which was a six-month process for Tran, she explained that the role spoke to her because of her culture, “Rose felt very close to me only because her family was from a war-torn planet where her parents were ripped from the place they lived, and that is what my parents went through. So yes, culturally, it felt very much on the nose, almost.

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I still want a Rose Tico spinoff. **** the haters.

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