Star Wars’ Kelly Marie Tran Discusses Toxic Fandoms and Mental Health


Star Wars' Kelly Marie Tran Discusses Toxic Fandoms and Mental Health





Star Wars and Raya and the Last Dragon star Kelly Marie Tran gets real about the toxicity of Star Wars fans and her mental health.

Star Wars and Raya and the Last Dragon star Kelly Marie Tran opened up about the toxicity she experienced from the Star Wars fandom and her mental health in a candid new interview.

“We’re living in a world where we’re all constantly being bombarded all of the time with so much stimulus, and I don’t know that we are all conscious of the ways in which it affects us,” Tran told Teen Vogue about her decision to leave social media in 2018. “For me, I knew that the most important thing was to protect my mental health, and make myself a space where I felt like I could create again and where I could be an artist again, which for a time, I didn’t know if I could do that again.”

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Tran continued, “I recognize my own privilege and understand that there are some people who have to be on social media for their work and their positions. The thing about it that makes me really upset is just what you were saying in the beginning of us initially speaking, where it’s like, why are we as artists, or as writers, or as creators in the spaces on social media, why are we the ones that have to normalize receiving harassment? That should not be OK.”

Tran also brought up the importance of talking about how people are treating each other, both in digital spaces and online, noting, “I think it is all-permeating into society and the more that we normalize an experience where someone anonymously gets the authority to call you something that they wouldn’t call you in public… Where do those lines cross?”

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Tran ended the conversation by sharing some advice that she wished she’d been given. “I think my advice to anyone, but also my younger self, would be to take the steps that I need to take to protect my own mental health and to protect myself so that I can continue to do the things that I love,” she said.

In addition to portraying Rose Tico in Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi and Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker, Tran voiced the leading character of Raya in the Disney animated film Raya and the Last Dragon.

Directed by Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada from a script by Adele Lim and Qui Nguyen, Raya and the Last Dragon stars Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Gemma Chan, Daniel Dae Kim, Sandra Oh, Benedict Wong, Izaac Wang, Thalia Tran, Alan Tudyk, Lucille Soong, Patti Harrison and Ross Butler. The film is now available on Digital HD, 4K UHD and Blu-ray.

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Source: Teen Vogue

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