(This article contains some spoilers for Rose Tico’s role, such that it is, in “Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker.” I would say these are not major spoilers.)
The “Star Wars” journey for Kelly Marie Tran has been a weird one since she was brought into the ensemble as one of the main characters in “The Last Jedi.” After that breakthrough role, things were very different for her character, Rose Tico, in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” as she was relegated to a minor background role in the saga finale.
After Rose was introduced in “The Last Jedi,” and a certain subset of folks who didn’t like that film decided Rose was the symbol of everything they thought was wrong with it.