Meet Kelly Marie Tran, the most exciting new face in ‘The Last Jedi’

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She’s set to enter the GFFA in just 35 days time in The Last Jedi and The Hollywood Reporter mark her out as one to watch for 2018, with good reason.

“I grew up with Harry Potter, and I always wanted to be a part of those big stories,” says Tran. She may not be attending Hogwarts, but she did land what director Rian Johnson has called the “biggest new part” of his Star Wars film, December’s The Last Jedi. Tran, a native of San Diego whose main acting background has been in improv comedy, booked her first feature role as Rose, a Resistance maintenance worker.

MY WORST HABIT ON SET “I am endlessly curious, so I pop my head into places, watching Chewy rehearsals and looking at the creatures department and touching things.”

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM HOLLYWOOD NEEDS TO FIX  “Diversity is something that is really important to me. In any way, we just need to get different types of people at the front of projects so we can tell stories that haven’t been told before.”

Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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She’s set to enter the GFFA in just 35 days time in The Last Jedi and The Hollywood Reporter mark her out as one to watch for 2018, with good reason.

“I grew up with Harry Potter, and I always wanted to be a part of those big stories,” says Tran. She may not be attending Hogwarts, but she did land what director Rian Johnson has called the “biggest new part” of his Star Wars film, December’s The Last Jedi. Tran, a native of San Diego whose main acting background has been in improv comedy, booked her first feature role as Rose, a Resistance maintenance worker.

MY WORST HABIT ON SET “I am endlessly curious, so I pop my head into places, watching Chewy rehearsals and looking at the creatures department and touching things.”

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM HOLLYWOOD NEEDS TO FIX  “Diversity is something that is really important to me. In any way, we just need to get different types of people at the front of projects so we can tell stories that haven’t been told before.”

Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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