Don’t get me wrong, I’m really excited Lando is back, I love him more than almost any other character in the series, but I am REAL unhappy we had to wait until every single other original trilogy hero couldn’t reprise their role in one way or another for him to be allowed to return. Lando should’ve been in Episode VII, and that’s just the tea
Kathleen Kennedy doesn’t like black characters.
And since we’ve only had one main black character per Disney Star Wars movie since TFA, that’s the tea
Kathleen Kennedy brought back Nien Nunb, a man so inconsequential no one even knew his name, before she brought back the man that destroyed the second death star because she hates PoC so much
While I love all the actresses in Star Wars and I have nothing against them things need to be said.
This is insanity and bad casting. I’ll give Keri Russell a pass because for all we know she’ll be playing a glorified cameo like Simon Pegg and I’m 76% sure JJ meant for Rey to be a Skywalker, but what about the others?
Why would you cast Felicity Jones in a prequel movie when she looks almost exactly like Daisy Ridley?
Why is Emilia Clarke, even though I thinks she’s a wonderful woman, even in the Han Solo prequel? We came to see a movie about how Han got the falcon, met Chewie and Lando, not see another random white brunette that looks like Daisy Ridley.
Now let’s look at the iconic female characters of color
Thandie Newton as Val in Solo? Killed with no character development.
Veronica Ngo as Paige Tico in TLJ? Killed with no character development.
Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico? Rian Johnson literally created her because there would have been no conflict with Finn and Poe. Rose was literally written for conflict instead of a character her own. Behind the scenes Kelly Marie Tran was not defended by Lucasfilms when reports flooded everywhere that she was a victim of racial harassment and and she still has not been confirmed for ep 9 by Lucasfilms.
Well let’s talk about the other woman.
Captain Phasma played by Gwendolyn Christie was marketed, advertised, in countless interviews, and is the highest selling merchandise of all Star Wars characters, but her character is barley given 5 mins of screen time and supposedly killed off.
Laura Dern as Holdo was written as an antagonist for Poe, a POC for no given reason but for the sake of conflict. She is then killed off from the movie and the franchise loses another acclaimed actress.
Carrie Fisher as Leia is given no screen time or character arc in TLJ. She has one scene where she flies through space then she is thrown in a coma till she is shoved out of it to be used in one scene, a scene which admittedly only good because of the nostalgia and acting chops of Mark and Carrie, and then she is shoved back into the role of an onlooker, a passive witness who doesn’t even get to assist her twin brother or say a word to her son.
Bonus
These 3 were kept out of the Lucasfilms approved Comic Con poster because the artist and Lucasfilms by extension thinks that they’re supporting characters with no relation to the Skywalkers, a family that Lucasfilms butchered, or the overall story.
Even though Poe and his family have been connect to the Solos and Skywalkers since the Return of the Jedi. Meanwhile Finn is the literal lead of TFA who is connected, knows, and meets everyone in the movie.
In Summary:
Kathleen Kennedy is a racist, ageist, sexist and I’m happy she’s getting fired. We don’t need anymore white knight liars in the film industry. There is enough.
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