Solo: A Star Wars Story, stating that her character’s death was a “big mistake”.The actress played Val – wife to criminal Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson) – in the Star Wars spin-off, which charted the origins of Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich).Newton’s character made history as the first Black woman to have a major role in the franchise, but Val was swiftly killed off by the end of the film – a decision which wasn’t in the original script.Speaking to Inverse, Newton said: “I felt disappointed by Star Wars that my character was killed.
And, actually, in the script, she wasn’t killed.“It happened during filming. And it was much more just to do with the time we had to do the scenes.
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