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The Official Episode VIII Kelly Marie Tran Discussion Thread

Discussion in 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' started by MagnarTheGreat, Feb 15, 2016.

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    Yes a juicy lightsaber duel, we have never seen two girls square off before, make a exception RJ we want to see it.
     
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    I mean the whole "women fighting women while men fight men" is an annoying cliché in action movies overall.

    BUT, we haven't gotten it in a SW movie yet, and I always did enjoy seeing say, Ahsoka and Ventress square off in TCW. Plus we got Rey vs. Kylo in the very first film. So yeah, I'd actually like to see a female vs. female lightsaber duel in one of these films as well.
     
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    No I agree, that trope bothers the freaking hell out of me.
    The difference I think would be that Rey is our main hero, so it's more 'Our hero fighting a villain' than 'Oh no. We can't have a guy hit a woman!'
     
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    Or both.;) She could do worse than Daala.
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    Maybe she'll be Kylo's nerdy love interest? (not kidding!) And the Skywalker dynasty will have become multi-ethnic by the fourth generation.
     
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    Why don't they write more role for Jess Tester (Jessika Pava)?
    She is very cute and deserved more role, maybe Poe's love interest.
    Tran could play an alien, and I don't mean to discriminate her.
    I am an Asian and love to see more Asians in Star Wars, but Tran's appearance, with respect, didn't impress me.
    I don't like to judge a book from its cover, but I don't think she suit Star Wars.
    Star Wars will be fine without humor, Obi-wan's bad joke in Phantom Menace said it all.
     
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    I hope she gets to destroy some kind of super weapon able to blow up an entire planet or five!
     
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    Ventress and Ahsoka. Ventress and Luminara. Ahsoka and Barris Offee.
     
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    Agreed, she seems really out of place. The "hip" CollegeHumour-type stuff she seems to be doing is really cringey stuff to be honest. This casting was a total shock. There's no serious roles we've seen from her though, I hope to god she'll surprise us...
     
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    In the films, we haven't. Then again, the expanded materials have been much better to the female characters in general.
     
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    A lot of people wondered about Daisy Ridley when she was cast. She had only done television roles at that point but JJ and everyone at Lucasfilm had faith in her. If this is the leading female role that has been talked about since before TFA was even released, Lucasfilm has been looking at a lot of people for this role and it's probably evolved over time as Rian Johnson and company wrote and made tweaks to the Episode VIII script. I'm sure they have full confidence in Kelly and her abilities. After all, Star Wars has a long tradition of casting young unknowns. I'm sure the role will have a good dose of humor in it as that's her forte, but you never know what will happen in the galaxy far, far away.
     
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    She's will be some kind senator / princess of this new exotic city planet. A call back to Naboo and Padame but no relations. Just a guess though.
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    A lot of actresses pulled out. Whoever Kelly is playing Lucas Film will be fully behind her no matter what but I can't help but think there has been some changes to the character. However, I love watching up and coming talent, Kelly will nail it regardless of the crap of been fat and ugly. I bet half of those writing that are no pictures themselves. Kelly is beautiful no matter what.
     
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    If she's "fat and ugly" to some people, then they all have VERY different standards/definitions for those words than I do.
     
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    Based on the info coming out of Dubrovnik I think you might be right.
     
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    I think he means in the live-action movies ...
     
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    I suspected around a few months ago when cast announcements for VIII were coming out and we had seen TFA that Finn would find a female friend in the Resistance, perhaps even his doctor while he's recovering, and they'd be close friends if not romantically involved.

    I bet that's the sort of role KMT is playing.

    We see things getting more serious between them as they bond through fighting with the Resistance, then their paths on a mission intersects with Rey, now a trained Jedi, and Finn's feelings for her well up again. So while Finn likes Rey, and KMT likes Finn, Rey still isn't quite returning Finn's feelings, and KMT picks up on it and is hurt.

    Very much the Disney Channel High School Soap-Opera.
     
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    I wonder if she's met Mark as well, and found him as awesome as most of us do?
     
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    If mark has more Han one line than is say that it's optimistic enough to think that she has ...
     
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