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Star Wars’ Kelly Marie Tran on Rose Tico’s ‘limited’ storyline in The Rise Of Skywalker


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Star Wars actor Kelly Marie Tran addressed the storyline of her character Rose Tico, as fans revolt over the ‘limited’ action she saw in the latest film.

After viewers of the film suggested Rose was ‘deliberately side-lined’, Chris Terrio, who co-wrote the script with director JJ Abrams, responded to speculation that the actress was given fewer scenes in the final instalment in the sci-fi trilogy on purpose.

However, speaking before the backlash at the press junket for The Rise Of Skywalker, on the day of its release, Metro.co.uk asked the star what she thought about her character’s journey.

In 2017’s The Last Jedi, when we were introduced to Resistance member Rose, she had a glowing storyline alongside John Boyega’s Finn which was seemingly abandoned in TROS.

Rose had fewer scenes (Picture: WALT DISNEY)

We wanted her back in the action, flying planes and fighting against the First Order.

Ever diplomatic, Kelly said that while there are storylines she’d love to have done, she praised JJ for wrapping up the saga in the best way possible.

‘As with any character than an actor plays there are always things you’re wanting to explore, because humanity is limitless so a character’s humanity is limitless and there are so many things we want to do as those characters,’ she said earlier this month, responding to our question: ‘I would say yes?’

Kelly would have loved to have explored her character more (Picture: Rex Features)

‘I don’t think there is a specific answer in exactly what I wanted to do, but I think JJ has done such an incredible job of wrapping up nine films and having all of these different storylines and characters involved,’ she continued.

Kelly laughed after the suggestion of seeing Rose causing havoc in the skies: ‘I know, that would have been so cool.’

Many of Kelly’s scenes as Rose were centred around Princess Leia Organa, played by the late Carrie Fisher using unused scenes from past films.

Off the back of this, Terrio explained that they simply could not use the rest of the footage the 30-year-old star filmed with the late Star Wars legend because the ‘photorealism’ wasn’t up to ‘standard’.

He told Awards Daily: ‘One of the reasons that Rose has a few less scenes than we would like her to have has to do with the difficulty of using Carrie Fisher’s footage in the way we wanted to.

‘We wanted Rose to be the anchor at the rebel base who was with Leia.

‘We thought we couldn’t leave Leia at the base without any of the principals who we love, so Leia and Rose were working together … As the process evolved, a few scenes we’d written with Rose and Leia turned out to not meet the standard of photorealism that we’d hoped for. Those scenes, unfortunately, fell out of the film.’

Terrio insisted that they all ‘adore’ Tran and they wanted her to be ‘anchored’ with Fisher’s beloved alter-ego.

He added: ‘The last thing we were doing was deliberately trying to sideline Rose. We adore the character, and we adore Kelly — so much so that we anchored her with our favourite person in this galaxy, General Leia.’

Being a part of the final scenes Carrie filmed for the Star Wars trilogy, Kelly said it was necessary for her to separate her emotions in order to get through filming.

‘It’s crazy because that’s an actor thought and not a character though, if that makes sense? Me as Kelly acknowledging and realising all those things, but me as rose not being aware of any of that,’ she said.

‘It was definitely hard to draw that line between what is actor stuff and what was character stuff.

‘For the most part I was just trying to be in that character.’

She added: ‘Watching it after the fact has been such a beautiful experience to see how incredibly she is in this movie and her intelligence and wit lives on.’

Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise Of Skywalker is in cinemas now.



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