Star Wars actress Kelly Marie Tran has revealed that she is queer.
The 35-year-old star, who made her Star Wars sequel series debut as Rose Tico in The Last Jedi, came out while promoting her forthcoming rom-com The Wedding Banquet.
Speaking with Vanity Fair, she confessed, ‘I haven’t said this publicly yet, but I’m a queer person.’
About working on the film — which also stars Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone — Tran recalled: ‘I’m here doing this amazing movie with these amazing people. I’ve never been in a queer space before. I’ve never truly felt this accepted before.’
She added, ‘The thing that really excited me about it was I got to play a person that I felt like I knew. I don’t feel like I’m acting at all in this movie.’
Kelly plays Angela, ‘a woman trying to have a baby through IVF with her girlfriend Lee (Gladstone),’ in the reimagining of Ang Lee’s 1993 film, per an EW synopsis.
Star Wars actress Kelly Marie Tran has revealed that she is queer; pictured in December 2019
The 35-year-old star, who made her Star Wars debut in the recent sequel series, came out while promoting her forthcoming rom-com The Wedding Banquet
Living in the couple’s guest house are their best friends Chris (Yang) and his partner Min (Han Gi-chan).
Production on the motion picture kicked off in Vancouver earlier this year.
The plot ‘follows what happens when Min’s boyfriend Chris rejects his marriage proposal,’ according to Variety.
Per the outlet, ‘Min convinces his best friend Angela to marry him instead, paying for her partner Liz’s IVF treatments in exchange for his green card.
‘However, things begin to unravel when Min’s grandmother makes a surprise trip from Seoul to throw the couple a Korean wedding banquet.’
The 90s original film earned Lee an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and starred Winston Chao, May Chin and Ah-Lei Gua.
Bleecker Street CEO Andrew Karpen, an executive producer on the movie, said in a statement in April: ‘I’m delighted to re-team with my longtime friend and colleague, James Schamus, on this inspired reimagining of a classic rom-com for the modern era.’
He added, ‘Andrew Ahn is a force to be reckoned with and I’m very excited to see the new heights that he and James will take this story to.’
Kelly first appeared as Rose Tico in The Last Jedi (2017); pictured with costar John Boyega
Speaking with Vanity Fair , she confessed, ‘I haven’t said this publicly yet, but I’m a queer person’; pictured in 2020 in Hollywood
About working on the film, which also stars Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone, Tran recalled: ‘I’m here doing this amazing movie with these amazing people. I’ve never been in a queer space before. I’ve never truly felt this accepted before’; pictured in 2019
In 2021 Kelly Marie said she is ‘so much happier’ without social media, and doesn’t believe she will ever go back on it.
She spoke as she graced the cover of The Hollywood Reporter and discussed being cast in Star Wars as well as her new Disney film Raya And The Last Dragon.
When she was cast in 2017’s The Last Jedi, internet trolls bombarded her with racist vitriol and harassment, forcing her to delete social media.
Asked if she’d ever return, she said no, explaining: ‘I’ve truly just been so much happier without being on the internet.
‘I’ve had my agents tell me [I’m] forgoing brand partnerships, but I’m not here to sell flat-tummy tea to young girls.’
