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Fuck diversity. This stupid ugly bitch had no reason to ever be
in a Star Wars movie in any capacity.

After her starring role as Rose Tico in 2017’s Star Wars: The
Last Jedi, Kelly Marie Tran faced so much racial abuse and
harassment from toxic fans that she deleted social media,
disappearing at a time when she, the first non-white actress to
play a lead character in the series, should have been
celebrating. Two years later, in The Rise of Skywalker, Tran’s
Rose Tico has disappeared, too, appearing in the movie for
barely over a minute and spending most of the movie left behind
by the other heroes to “study” the villains’ technology.

The blatant reduction of Rose’s role to a side note in the
movie, in light of the lengthy and heinous hate campaign against
Tran, seemed like a signal that the movie appeased trolls.

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But the film’s co-screenwriter, Chris Terrio, has responded to
these claims by asserting that Tran’s diminished screen time was
not the product of malice, but of editing and bad CGI.

“We wanted Rose to be the anchor at the rebel base who was with
Leia,” Terrio told Awards Daily in an interview after the
movie’s release, in which he was asked about Rose’s slim role.
“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.”

No doubt the death of Carrie Fisher in 2016 — before production
on The Rise of Skywalker — changed and complicated the story
Terrio, J.J. Abrams, The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, and
Lucasfilm wanted to tell about Fisher’s Leia and how she was
going to be portrayed on-screen. The footage of Fisher used in
The Rise of Skywalker was unused footage from 2015’s The Force
Awakens.

Terrio also explained to The Hollywood Reporter a week later
that he and Abrams inherited the project in the fall of 2017
(Lucasfilm and Disney announced Colin Trevorrow’s departure in
September) and began shooting a half year later in August 2018.
In that window, it seems that it never occurred to Abrams or
Terrio that Tico’s Leia-dependent scenes would be a problem, nor
did it seem to occur to them that Tico could have some scenes
that didn’t heavily feature Leia.

Even though most of Rose’s scenes were cut, Terrio told THR he’s
confident that The Rise of Skywalker told Rose Tico’s complete
story.

“I do think that TROS shows Rose changing, growing, evolving.
Rose begins her journey in TLJ as just about the lowest person
on the Resistance totem pole,” Terrio told The Hollywood
Reporter. “In TROS, Rose is at the right hand of the general,
working on military plans and helping to call the shots.”

Perhaps we’ll get to see said scenes as a bonus feature when The
Rise of Skywalker is available for home release. But that
explanation might not satisfy fans who were hoping for more than
just one minute of Rose Tico’s story.

https://www.vox.com/2019/12/30/21042843/kelly-marie-tran-rise-of- skywalker-screentime

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