Chris has attended several events for Screen Rant, including San Diego Comic-Con and Star Wars Celebration.Ĭhris credits Toy Story and Star Wars with launching a lifelong fascination with movies that led him on the path to his career. He was hired by Screen Rant in 2013 to write box office prediction posts in conjunction with the Screen Rant Underground's Box Office Battle game, and his role at the site grew from there. He is a graduate of Wesley College's Bachelor of Media Arts and Master of Sport Leadership programs. With only a handful of months until Episode VIII is released, Lucasfilm will ramp up their marketing efforts soon, which is an exciting proposition.Ĭhris Agar is a senior movie/TV news editor for Screen Rant and one of Screen Rant's Rotten Tomatoes approved critics. Hopefully, the inevitable R2-D2 figure comes with another porg that can rest on the droid's head. Chewie is paired with an adorable porg, essentially confirming that the Wookiee will befriend some of the feathered creatures while on Ahch-To. Hasbro frequently does not know key story revelations, and the filmmakers would obviously want to save Luke wielding his green blade again as a surprise. The Luke toy does not have a lightsaber, but it may not be worth reading too much into that. Kylo Ren is once again seen in marketing sans helmet, so it looks as if he'll be spending a majority of the film without it. It's interesting to look at the accessories (or lack of) that come with each figure and speculate how it might connect to the movie. New additions like Laura Dern's Vice Admiral Holdo and Benicio del Toro's DJ also are not in toy form for the time being, but that could be a conscious decision on Lucasfilm's part to keep aspects about those characters under wraps until they debut on the big screen. It's possible they will be among the action figures once the products (officially) go on sale, or they could be saved for later. There are only a few noteworthy individuals missing from the collection, such as General Leia Organa, Captain Phasma, and Supreme Leader Snoke. Some of this may be attributed to the reception of Rose by the fans, as well as some of the social media blowback Tran received, while the rest is just a natural part of learning and aging.While there will almost definitely be more action figures once The Last Jedi is released, this wave is a good start, highlighting many of the principal characters from Star Wars 7. Later in the interview, she and Jones noted that Rose's defining characteristic was her innocence, and Tran quipped that she now feels like an old lady when thinking back to those earlier days of her career. In the five years since Tran first played Rose, she's undoubtedly changed. As Tran says in the interview, she's already changed so much as a person sinceĬameras began rolling in 2016, and with that passage of time comes many life experiences that alter one's worldview. Like so many things in life, time changes everything. But when I think about Rose specifically, I think about who I was then, and how I was able to tap into certain parts of myself, and I don't know if I could play her again.'

I think so many times in our lifetimes we are constantly growing and learning, and the realm of human experience is so limitless you can be so many different people at one time. 'I don't know if I could play her now, I feel like I'm different. The actress elaborated on this thought by saying that she's unsure if she could play the character in a future project: I mean, I maybe miss who I was when I played her.'

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