Performing virtually isn’t ideal but it’s better than nothing for BTS.
21.02.2021 - 01:06 / justjared.com
Kelly Marie Tran looks like a real-life princess while sitting down for an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live to talk about playing a Disney princess.
The 32-year-old actress, who is best known for playing Rose Tico in the Star Wars movies, opened up about her new animated movie Raya and the Last Dragon.
Kelly filmed the movie in the middle of the pandemic and revealed that all of her dialogue was actually recorded at her home.
“I recorded in a makeshift fort at my boyfriend’s apartment, which was
Performing virtually isn’t ideal but it’s better than nothing for BTS.
When Kelly Marie Tran was cast as Rose Tico in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” you have to imagine the actress was incredibly happy about what it might mean for her career and her future. Then the film was released and Tran became the subject of a ton of toxic fan hate, with racist and misogynist comments being throw at her non-stop.
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Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi, Tran seemed all but set for superstardom. However, she was soon inundated with racist and sexist online abuse from the toxic side of the Star Wars fandom, and was forced to delete her Instagram account as a result.
The last couple of years has seen a rise in toxic behavior and online harassment from so-called “fans” of big franchises like “Star Wars” or DC movies, but one of the ugliest examples of this was the intense racism and sexism against “The Last Jedi” actress Kelly Marie Tran. After incessant harassment online, Tran, who was the first woman of color to have a major role in a “Star Wars” film, “closed up shop” and left all social media.
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Raya and the Last Dragon, she embarked on a magical journey…from a homemade fort. “I did maybe two sessions at Disney before lockdown began, and after that, it was all from home. My boyfriend built this sort of makeshift fort, so I [recorded my role] in this fort in my pajamas,” she tells Glamour.
Kelly Marie Tran isn’t holding back.
In Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon, the titular character is strong, resilient, clever, has a strong bond to her community of the world of Kumandra and, above all, hopeful. That said, it’s no wonder that Kelly Marie Tran was chosen to voice the titular heroine. The Vietnamese-American actress emits those qualities and then some.
Star Wars fans.Back in 2018, it emerged that Tran had deleted all of her Instagram posts following months of harassment from angry Star Wars fans.
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Antonio Ferme editor“Raya and the Last Dragon” is set in the land of Kumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization where humans and dragons once lived together in harmony.