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.”
