![]() ![]() Read my new sci-fi thriller novel Herokiller, available now in print and online. But Rose? Rose will never find justice now.įollow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The logical end of this story is for Kelly Marie Tran to hopefully land a starring role in the next Rian Johnson Knives Out-like megahit. Yes, on the part of the fans who harassed her, but also what Abrams did her by cutting her role down to nothing, despite going out of his way to proclaim what a big fan he was of Tran’s. This was barely one step above just writing out her out completely by saying her ship crashed on the way back to her home planet.Īll of this has been thoroughly gross. Jar Jar was a horrendously conceived character from the start and yet even he was treated better in the subsequent films than Rose was here, her entire arc concluding with a hug from Chewbacca and little else. While I’ll agree that Rose could have used a better storyline than the casino planet in TLJ, her character beats, her performance and her relationship with Finn was stellar and deserved more explanation. ![]() I’ve seen some comparisons of Rose with Jar Jar Binks, which is offensive on about three different levels. But this, more so than other Last Jedi "fixes,” feels like a cowardly response to two years of constant abuse of Tran, the lesson being that if you hate a character, and in turn, an actor, enough, you can influence directors and writers and megacorps to cut them out of your favorite franchise. It’s not like actors have never had their role reduced through editing before. And who knows what else was left on the cutting room floor. That leaves plenty of room for Rose’s arc to continue and conclude with Finn, and yet it’s just completely missing, as are other, non-boy-related scenes she was supposed to have with Rey. Abrams and Boyega swear Finn wasn’t going to confess feeling for Rey, he isn’t romantically linked to Jannah, and Disney was too chicken to go through with the Finn-Poe pairing. Finn doesn’t even get an alternative, either. Whatever potential romance she had with Finn has completely fizzled, or at the very least, been scrubbed away in edits. The rest of Rose’s role in the film is sitting at home base, occasionally speaking on the radio, and then briefly getting in on the action in the climax, though Finn and Jannah are the ones doing the heroic acts as Rose just frets about them over the radio. I could see this coming in the film’s opening where Finn invites Rose to come along on their grand adventure which has room for a Wookie and three droids, but she declines, saying that she must stay behind to study Star Destroyers. In fact, Tran’s role is almost non-existent. If you’ve seen the film, you know that those scenes were nowhere to be found in the movie. They both have the some objective which is to fight for the things you believe in and the people you love.” I wish I could tell you more but I’m really excited for people to see interact. ![]() “It was really cool to have feminine energy on set. “I think it’s really cool at all that they are even in scenes together because in ‘Jedi’ we weren’t in any scenes together,” Tran said. In an interview before the cast saw the final cut of Rise of Skywalker for the first time, Tran spoke excitedly to IndieWire about new scenes with Rose, including some with Rey for the first time. Initially it looked like that might actually happen. So if Rise of Skywalker was supposed to fix The Last Jedi’s “mistakes,” wouldn’t one of those be to perhaps give Rose a better storyline than she had? ![]() JJ Abrams famously said that casting Tran was the “greatest thing” Rian Johnson did (and it seems pretty clear now Abrams hated nearly everything else Johnson did). At first it seemed like those involved with Star Wars had her back. ![]()
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