Kelly Marie Tran Deleted Her Instagram Posts After Months Of Harassment From ‘Star Wars’ Fans

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is certified 91 percent “Fresh” among critics on Rotten Tomatoes, but the audience rating is only 46 percent. The curious disparity can possibly be credited to Rian Johnson subverting numerous tropes, and some fans don’t like change (Kevin Smith agrees with this childhood-ruining theory), or trolls and/or bots sabotaging the score, because how dare the heroes not all be straight white males. This, unfortunately, explains the existence of the men’s right edit of The Last Jedi, wherein a two-and-a-half hour movie was reduced to 46 minutes, and why actress Kelly Marie Tran deleted her Instagram posts:

Kelly Marie Tran, the Vietnamese-American actress who portrayed Rose Tico in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, spent the weekend deleting her Instagram posts, leaving behind a completely barren account; it should be noted, however, that she has not gone so far as to delete the account entirely. (Via)

At this time, it’s believed Tran (the first woman of color to have a leading role in a Star Wars movie) deleted the posts “due to months of harassment she has received for her character Rose,” according to Star Wars Facts.

In October, months before The Last Jedi was released, Tran admitted that she “avoided public social media for a long time purely because I was afraid. I was terrified of being picked apart, of being scrutinized, of being seen. It took me a year of self-work — and some really amazing, supportive friends — to make me realize that it’s none of my business if people like me or not. It doesn’t change my goals, my dreams, what I want to do with the opportunities I’ve been given.”

She continued, “YOU ARE ENOUGH. Love yourself and embrace your messiness. That’s where your power lies! (I honestly just wrote this in my journal as a reminder to myself, because hey, I’m mostly a strong person, but life happens, and I’m still figuring it out as I go.).” The only thing that remains on her Instagram account The page description: “Afraid, but doing it anyway.”

UPDATE: writer and director Rian Johnson has responded.

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) June 5, 2018

Done with this disingenuous bullshit. You know the difference between not liking a movie and hatefully harassing a woman so bad she has to get off social media. And you know which of those two we’re talking about here.

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) June 5, 2018

In the aftermath, Tran is receiving an outpouring of support.

— Star Wars Facts (@SWTweets) June 5, 2018

kelly marie tran literally posted nothing but cute positive daily posts and y’all dudebro gremlins harassed her so much you drove her off insta. fuck all y’all for thinking you can just comment your uninvited opinion about rose on a post that has nothing to do with it

— luna (@caroldanvrs) June 5, 2018

If you followed Kelly Marie Tran on instagram then you know she has been one of the loveliest and most positive souls on the goddamn internet in the past year and I will FIGHT every last person who hurt her https://t.co/WDP6j2HM5N

— Sarah Dollard (@snazdoll) June 5, 2018

And this happens all the time. We ❤️ you, Kelly Marie Tran, and thanks for a great movie. https://t.co/qIwTbcHvfH

— Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing) June 5, 2018

what's happening to Kelly Marie Tran is incredibly sad, and a fucking disgrace https://t.co/ez2K29XX7q

— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) June 5, 2018

kelly marie tran was the kindest and loveliest person in the entire cast and she was so Fucking Excited to be part of such a huge franchise and take a step forward for all (!!southeast!!) asian women in media and yall decide to shit on her and take her for granted and im TIRED!!!

— come back kelly (@prcserpinas) June 5, 2018

I was lucky enough to meet Kelly Marie Tran briefly, and she was incredibly nice to a comics writer who may have been geeking out a bit too much. It's fine to not like fictional characters. It's not fine to harass actual human people. https://t.co/sti2my7zdD

— Jody Houser ✒️️ (@Jody_Houser) June 5, 2018

Kelly Marie Tran's quote on her Instagram page — "Afraid, but doing it anyway. " is a thing I adore without reserve. She is a force for light and joy and unabashed engagement with the things you love, and to think of the harassment she's received is infuriating.

— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 5, 2018

Campaign to bring Kelly Marie Tran a nice pasta with pesto sauce, sundried tomatoes, maybe a good wine pairing, and also the heads of her enemies.

— Dany Roth (@DanyOrdinary) June 5, 2018

This is the fanbase that:

•Drove Jake Lloyd insane

•Made Hayden Christianson quit acting

•Made George Lucas not want to make any more movies

•Made Daisy Ridley delete her Instagram

•And recently made Kelly Marie Tran leave Instagram

I love Star Wars but fuck the fans https://t.co/yhApP7GVIH

— Nicholas Levi (@NicholasJLevi) June 4, 2018