This past summer at San Diego Comic-Con, about a dozen attendees gathered outside the Hilton Bayfront Hotel for the “Rally for Rose,” the second event of its kind and organized by Nerds of Color, an online community and publication. Participants held signs that read “rebellions are built on hope” and donned green jumpsuits, the signature look of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” character Rose Tico, played by Vietnamese American actor Kelly Marie Tran.
“I’ve been coming to Comic-Con ever since I was a teenager, but last year was the first year I cosplayed, because Rose Tico existed as a character who was Asian,” Candice Mack, a Los Angeles resident who participated, told Variety in July.
To be the first major character of Asian descent in the “Star Wars” Skywalker saga is an experience that has come with the brightest and darkest parts of fandom, and it was the latter...
“I’ve been coming to Comic-Con ever since I was a teenager, but last year was the first year I cosplayed, because Rose Tico existed as a character who was Asian,” Candice Mack, a Los Angeles resident who participated, told Variety in July.
To be the first major character of Asian descent in the “Star Wars” Skywalker saga is an experience that has come with the brightest and darkest parts of fandom, and it was the latter...
- 12/19/2019
- by Audrey Cleo Yap
- Variety Film + TV
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