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Kelly Marie Tran fans are claiming that she had more time on screen during the Academy Awards than she did in The Rise of Skywalker. Rian Johnson took Tran and gave her Rose Tico character a pretty big role in 2017's The Last Jedi. J.J. Abrams praised Johnson for the decision, only to seemingly place her on the sidelines in the final installment of the Skywalker Saga. Star Wars fans were quick to take notice, with one person even bringing in a stopwatch to figure out exactly how much screen time she received.

Last night's Oscars featured Kelly Marie Tran as a presenter, where she had a significant role. Her fans were quick to post on social media that the Academy gave her more time and lines than J.J. Abrams did in The Rise of Skywalker. "The Oscars made better use of Kelly Marie Tran's comedic talent than Star Wars,...

The ugliest element of the backlash against The Last Jedi was all the hate unfairly flung at actress Kelly Marie Tran due to some having problems with her character Rose Tico. In response to this, more reasonable Star Wars fans – i.e. everyone else – then came forward to champion Tran and she rightly became a huge fandom favorite. There was a lot of excitement to see her in The Rise of Skywalker, then, so many were furious when she ended up having hardly any screentime in the Skywalker saga conclusion.

All the anger about this had calmed down a bit since the movie came out a couple of months ago, but last night social media was once again flooded with criticisms about Rose being left on the sidelines in Tros. The reason was because Kelly Marie Tran appeared during Sunday’s Oscar ceremony as a presenter and folks couldn’t...