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CANTO BIGHT

rose tico
tech savvy

KELLY MARIE TRAN

A brave and resourceful young woman, Rose Tico rides with Finn
into action and serves as his moral guide.

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ROSE BY ANY
OTHER NAME
To Rian Johnson’s way of thinking,
each character in the Star Wars

saga “reflects some part of how we
all feel, or at least how we’d
like to feel.” Rose Tico, however,
“is the closest to how 10-year-old
me would have felt if he woke up in
this universe. She doesn’t belong
here, but she’s going to be brave
and do her best. Luckily we found
the perfect embodiment of that
spirit with Kelly Marie Tran. I love
her to death, and I’m thrilled to
introduce audiences to both Rose
and Kelly.”

new introduction to the Star Wars Expressing her excitement at becoming a Star
universe, Rose Tico is part of the Wars heroine and getting to stand alongside a
support crew working on the Resistance group of similarly strong females, not just in
A starfighters. Rose is played in The Last The Last Jedi but across the whole saga, Tran

Jedi by Kelly Marie Tran, who highlights the fact nevertheless admits to feeling some trepidation.
that Rose has an older sister, Paige, who is a gunner While she hopes Rose will be a role model, she
for the Resistance—a more traditionally heroic role. also feels the weight of responsibility: “You just
Rose, says Tran, “is the opposite of that. She works wanted to do it right. And you wanted to do the
in maintenance, and she’s a nobody. Her sister’s franchise right, because so many generations love
always been the cool one that’s been out there in the this thing.”
forefront of the action. Rose has always been the one The actress recalls a experiencing a similar
behind pipes, fi xing things.” level of excitement when she first landed the

Until, that is, events early on in The Last Jedi, at role of Rose Tico in The Last Jedi, as well as
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which point Rose’s life changes drastically. As part the torture of having to keep the exciting news
witness decadance on
of that, she meets Finn, who Tran describes as “a a secret. “I found out that I got the role in
a galactic scale at the
big deal to her,” likening him to “a childhood hero. November of 2015,” she says. “I moved to
casino on Canto Bight.
Rose has always been someone who has been on London in December immediately after that, but
5 / Resistance the bottom of the food chain in the Resistance. And I couldn’t tell anybody where I was going or what
heroine Rose Tico on here is Finn, someone who, for her, represents why I was actually doing until February 2016. I lied
a dangerous mission. she’s there. So they meet and go on a series of crazy to everybody I knew and said I was in Canada
(See opposite page) adventures together.” working on an indie movie.” a

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