ST Rose Tico/Kelly Marie Tran Discussion Thread

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I liked Rose more than the ST leads. A shame Abrams pretty much dropped the character for IX.

 

I didn't like the character in the TLJ, but I was pretty irritated that she was almost completely cut from TROS. There was room for improvement with the character.

 

She would’ve been a much more interesting protagonist than Daisy Ridley’s Rey, who I found mind-numbingly uninteresting and lacking any charisma.

 

I think that's the case for all the characters, mostly.

 

Because Rey's backstory is about herself. Rose's backstory is focused around another person... who we also never get to know.

 

...would have stayed away from Star Wars.

 

Rose has got to be one of the worst written characters in Star Wars. I like the actor, but I’d have happily seen her killed at the end of TLJ.

 

I fail to see anything charismatic about Daisy Ridley, unfortunately. I think she was a big casting mistake.

 

It seemed that Daisy got the gig because she was good at crying on cue. I’m not sure what the general level of acting is like in the US, but crying on cue is kind of entry level drama school ability these days in the UK. I’ve watched a few things that Daisy has been in now, and she’s kind of flat, even outside of Star Wars.

 

Plus, how much crying is required in these films?

As much as I disliked TROS, I thought Naomie Ackie was a great actor in that film. She would've been way more compelling than Ridley as Rey, in my view. But I think Lucasfilm was playing it safe in 2015. Had to be a white girl, and had to be brand new in the acting world.

 

No.

 

I'll say this about Daisy in TFA. The script doesn't convince me of most things (ex. her sudden bond with BB-8) but her acting does. I'll give her that, she's charming enough to carry that script.

 

Yeah, the ST doesn't require much of her outside being a between-the-lines likable, youthful hero, but I can't say she elevated the material.

 

Right. Carrie Fisher, for example, elevated the material to a legendary level. Ridley doesn’t even come close to that. Perhaps that bar is too high though.

 

Ridley was fine for the role, the character just need a better story

same with KMT and her character

 

The casting of ANH was soooo much part of ANH’s success (outside of the other things). As much as I like and respect McGregor, Driver, Portman, Boyega et al, think the characters of Luke, Leia and Han were 1 part the words on the page and 9 parts the actors personalities themselves. The PT and ST were too encumbered by preconceived notions of what/who the characters should be. The OT, in particaular ANH, was much more free in how the characters were shaped IMO.

 

Rose is a good character.

 

I was taking a nap earlier, and I had this crazy dream that I was at the bookstore of my alma mater. I told the store employee, whom I knew, as I knew most people on campus back then, that I had moved to an apartment because it would be larger and I would have my own privacy. Then I saw Rose Tico from Episode 8, and I was about to discuss these books about the Bubonic Plague. However, she was about inject herself with the Plague, and she said she would "cut it off at the nose." I backed away from her, and I was like, "What in the blue hell is goin' on?"

 

Time to inject oneself with a plague

 

Yeah, it made no sense. Kind of like the movie.

 

I enjoyed it.