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    Kelly Marie Tran opens up about her Hollywood journey 9 years after becoming the target of intense online fan backlash: “…We’ve seen over and over time again women of color in these, sort of established franchises having this similar experience…”


    Kelly Marie Tran opens up about her Hollywood journey 9 years after becoming the target of intense online fan backlash: “…We’ve seen over and over time again women of color in these, sort of established franchises having this similar experience…”

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    1. hairtie1 on

      full quote:

      “Thank you for acknowledging this journey that I’ve had, and I would venture to say that I don’t think I’m the only one who has experience that.

      We’ve seen over and over time again women of color in these, sort of established franchises having this similar experience. I will say, when I think about that time, which was ten years ago now, the thing that I think I didn’t understand was that it wasn’t my fault.

      My first reaction was to internalize everything that I was receiving,and use it as evidence that I wasn’t supposed to be there… If it happened to me now as someone who has been through ten years of therapy and joined support groups and done all this work on myself, I think that I would have had a very different experience.”

    3. brown_beaut1 on

      The racism and threats were never acceptable, full stop. But let’s be honest the character was flat, boring, and stuck in a bad storyline. That criticism is fair. What isn’t fair is that she and John Boyega became targets for unhinged fans because of their skin colour.

    4. tbsmango on

      Its even sadder that I feel like we really haven’t made much progress in making POC women feel more safer in the entertainment industry. Nine times out of ten they’re the ones held to a higher standard compared to their white counterparts.

    5. joshthor on

      There is always backlash unfortunately, and she didn’t deserve any of it (none of the cast did)

      but the backlash is so much worse when the movies they are making are absolute dogshit. the writers/producers/disney of the sequel trilogy did their cast absolutely no favors

    6. A_Lion_Thief44 on

      Some fans had more “backlash” toward her than they did the steaming pile of shit that JJ Abrams, one of the biggest hacks ever in Hollywood, dropped on all of us and called “Episode 9”. That says a lot about a lot.

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