Mark Hamill has told the Star Wars fandom to ‘get a life’ after they drove The Last Jedi star Kelly Marie Tran off social media.
Sharing a picture of himself with Kelly, who played Rose Tico in 2017’s episode VIII, Mark simply wrote: ‘What’s not to love? #GetALifeNerds.’
Kelly decided to delete all of her Instagram pictures after she was left unable to deal with the amount of abuse she received from so-called fans of the franchise.
She received fierce and loud backlash from small corners of the fandom for her appearance and her performance in the film; Tran is Vietnamese-American and was the first woman of colour to play a lead role in the iconic series.
After she was cast in 2017 her entry on the Star Wars Wikipedia page was edited to include offensive remarks about the star’s appearance… Read the full story
from Metro https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/07/mark-hamill-demands-star-wars-fans-get-life-kelly-marie-tran-leaves-social-media-months-abuse-7612412/
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