Star Wars actress Kelly Marie Tran has revealed 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 upcoming rom-com The Wedding Banquet.
Speak with Vanity fair‘, she admitted, ‘I haven’t said this publicly yet, but I am a strange person.’
About working on the film – which also stars Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone – Tran recalled: “I’m here to make this amazing movie with these amazing people. I’ve never been in a strange space before. I’ve never felt so accepted.’
She added, “What really got me excited about it was that I got to play a person that I felt like I knew. I don’t feel like I’m acting in this film at all.’
Kelly plays Angela, “a woman who tries to have a child through IVF with her friend Lee (Gladstone),” in the remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 film, according to a EW synopsis.
Star Wars actress Kelly Marie Tran has revealed 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 upcoming rom-com The Wedding Banquet
The couple’s guest house is home to their best friends Chris (Yang) and his partner Min (Han Gi-chan).
Production on the film started earlier this year in Vancouver.
The plot “follows what happens when Min’s boyfriend Chris turns down his marriage proposal,” according to Variety.
According to the outlet, Min convinces his best friend Angela to marry him and pays for her partner Liz’s IVF treatments in exchange for his green card.
“However, things start to fall apart when Min’s grandmother makes a surprise trip from Seoul to throw the couple a Korean wedding banquet.”
The original ’90s 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, executive producer of the film, said in a statement in April: “I’m thrilled to be collaborating again with my longtime friend and colleague, James Schamus, on this inspired reinterpretation of a classic rom-com for modern times.’
He added, “Andrew Ahn is a force to be reckoned with and I’m very excited to see the new heights 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 to Vanity Fair, she confessed: ‘I haven’t said this publicly yet, but I am 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 to make this amazing movie with these amazing people. I’ve never been in a strange space before. I’ve never really felt this accepted’; in the photo in 2019
In 2021, Kelly Marie said she’s “so much happier” without social media, and doesn’t believe she’ll ever return to it.
She spoke while gracing the cover of The Hollywood Reporter and discussed her casting in Star Wars and her new Disney film Raya And The Last Dragon.
When she was cast in The Last Jedi in 2017, internet trolls bombarded her with racist vitriol and harassment, forcing her to delete social media.
When asked if she would ever return, she said no, explaining, “I’ve honestly been so much happier without being on the internet.”
“I had my officers tell me [I’m] refrain from brand partnerships, but I’m not here to sell flat belly tea to young girls.”