Star Wars Actress Kelly Marie Reveals She’s Queer: “I’ve Never Been in a Queer Space Before.”

Kelly Marie Tran has shared openly that she is queer. While talking about her role in the new remake of Ang Lee’s queer romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet, the Star Wars actress spoke about it for the first time. “I haven’t said this publicly yet, but I’m a queer person,” Tran revealed.

Talking about working with queer filmmaker Andrew Ahn on the remake, she said, “The thing that really excited me about it was I got to play a person that I felt like I knew. I don’t feel like I’m acting at all in this movie.”

“I’m here doing this amazing movie with these amazing people,” Marie said. “I’ve never been in a queer space before. I’ve never truly felt this accepted before.”

Kelly Marie Tran stars in Andrew Ahn’s remake as Angela, a woman trying to have a baby through IVF with her girlfriend Lee, played by Oscar-nominated actress Lily Gladstone. Their close friends, Chris (Bowen Yang) and his partner Min (Han Gi-chan), live with them in their guest house.

Min, feeling the pressure to return to Korea and take over his family’s business, teams up with Angela to stage a fake wedding. The plan is to help him get a green card while Angela raises money for IVF, all while keeping Min’s traditional family happy.

The cast also includes Minari Oscar winner Yuh-Jung Youn as Min’s grandmother and Joan Chen as Angela’s mom. Tran shared that her personal experience coming out to her mother influenced her scenes with Joan Chen. “I came out to my mom in a very specific way. The scenes I have with Joan Chen are very similar to that experience,” Tran said.

Tran has spoken before about the importance of LGBTQ+ representation. She has said she believes her character in Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is queer and would love to make a queer sequel. In 2021, she told Vanity Fair, “If you watch this movie and see representation that feels real to you, then it is real and authentic. I might get in trouble for saying that, but whatever.”

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