Kelly Marie Tran Shares The Emotional Poem She Wrote To Her ‘Star Wars’ Character Rose Tico

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Kelly Marie Tran is looking back at what it was like to see herself on the big screen in “Star Wars”. The actress, 32, who made her debut as Rose Tico in 2017’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”, penned an emotional poem to the “small Asian girl” she saw on the screen.

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After meeting via Zoom, Tran surprised her new friend by reading her own poem. “We are all but left to watch a small Asian girl tear apart the First Order with nothing but a heart made of scrap metal and a passion for rebellion,” Tran begins in her poem. “Maybe we