Star Wars: The Last Jedi actress comes out as queer while promoting new film

Star Wars histrion Kelly Marie Tran has revealed that she is queer.

The 35-year-old star, who made her Star Wars sequel bid debut arsenic Rose Tico successful The Last Jedi, came retired portion promoting her forthcoming rom-com The Wedding Banquet.

Speaking with Vanity Fair, she confessed, 'I haven't said this publically yet, but I'm a queer person.'

About moving connected the movie — which besides stars Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone — Tran recalled: 'I'm present doing this astonishing movie with these astonishing people. I've ne'er been successful a queer abstraction before. I've ne'er genuinely felt this accepted before.' 

She added, 'The happening that truly excited maine astir it was I got to play a idiosyncratic that I felt similar I knew. I don't consciousness similar I'm acting astatine each successful this movie.'

Kelly plays Angela, 'a pistillate trying to person a babe done IVF with her woman Lee (Gladstone),' in the reimagining of Ang Lee's 1993 film, per an EW synopsis.

Living successful the couple's impermanent location are their champion friends Chris (Yang) and his spouse Min (Han Gi-chan). 

Production connected the question representation kicked disconnected successful Vancouver earlier this year.

The crippled 'follows what happens erstwhile Min’s fellow Chris rejects his matrimony proposal,' according to Variety.

Per the outlet, 'Min convinces his champion person Angela to wed him instead, paying for her spouse Liz’s IVF treatments successful speech for his greenish card. 

'However, things statesman to unravel erstwhile Min’s grandma makes a astonishment travel from Seoul to propulsion the mates a Korean wedding banquet.'

The 90s archetypal movie earned Lee an Academy Award information for Best Foreign Language Film and starred Winston Chao, May Chin and Ah-Lei Gua. 

Bleecker Street CEO Andrew Karpen, an enforcement shaper connected the movie, said successful a connection successful April: 'I'm delighted to re-team with my longtime person and colleague, James Schamus, connected this inspired reimagining of a classical rom-com for the modern era.'

He added, 'Andrew Ahn is simply a unit to beryllium reckoned with and I'm precise excited to spot the caller heights that helium and James volition instrumentality this communicative to.'

In 2021 Kelly Marie said she is 'so overmuch happier' without societal media, and doesn't judge she volition ever spell backmost connected it.

She spoke arsenic she graced the screen of The Hollywood Reporter and discussed being formed successful Star Wars arsenic good arsenic her caller Disney movie Raya And The Last Dragon.

When she was formed successful 2017's The Last Jedi, net trolls bombarded her with racist vitriol and harassment, forcing her to delete societal media.

Asked if she'd ever return, she said no, explaining: 'I've genuinely conscionable been truthful overmuch happier without being connected the internet. 

'I've had my agents archer maine [I'm] forgoing marque partnerships, but I'm not present to merchantability flat-tummy beverage to young girls.'