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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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   Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite   
   of The Last Jedi   
   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-   
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