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Kelly Marie Tran did an interview with Entertainment Tonight to promote her role on Monsterland on Hulu. The more I hear about this show the more I want to see it! Here’s a link to the trailer. It looks good and it’s giving me X-Files vibes. Kelly quit social media in the summer of 2017 when she was being harassed by racist Star Wars fans mad at her for being a woman of color on The Last Jedi. Kelly’s character, Rose, got less than a minute and a half of screen time in the next film, The Rise of Skywalker, something filmmakers blamed on losing Carrie Fischer and having to edit around Leia’s character. Kelly is doing well and has the starring role in the upcoming animated feature, Raya and the Last Dragon. Kelly told ET’s Ash Crossan that it was unreal to be playing a Disney princess and that she credits that to her team.
On her Monsterland character’s morality being ambiguous
What makes a good person? What makes a bad person? A lot of times there’s not an easy answer. It’s not just ‘this person is a bad person because they did this one thing.’ A lot of times we’re not actually aware of the context in which this person did this act. There’s all of these other factors not being considered.On people getting called out online
It’s hard and we do want to call people out when something’s problematic. At the same time, do they not get to exist in the world anymore? I don’t think there is one right answer. It’s a nuanced case by case thing.On quitting social media
I think that it’s a different thing for everyone. People should do what they think is right for them. I also think that it was the best thing I ever did. People are still shocked by it sometimes. I just did what was best for me. Why is that so shocking? I feel great about it.On how it feels to be a Disney princess
I don’t understand why or how I got to be involved in these things. I’ve always wanted to tell stories but I feel like the things I’ve been able to do thus far say a lot more about the people around me than me. I’m working with all these incredible people. I have not grasped that yet, it feels very unreal.
Kelly also showed a photo of her mantle all set up for Halloween and I thought that was so cool. I set up my Halloween decorations this weekend and am so happy with the way my house looks now. As for her quitting Instagram, I can’t imagine being a famous woman on Instagram or Twitter. Sometimes I think about what Brie Larson went through for trying to be a decent ally in the lead-up to Captain Marvel. It must be so much worse for women of color. Honestly I did not see The Rise of Skywalker, but I loved seeing Kelly in The Last Jedi and was hoping for great things from her. We’ll see that, but just in a different venue.
Here’s Kelly’s interview
I quit all platforms three years ago and completely scrubbed the content from each. It has been a great improvement and I do not have the guilt about not responding to an old friend’s comment or like. If I want to talk to someone, I call them and I’ve made it known to my friends that is my preferred form of catching up. It is better for me to live in a simplified world. Now, the process of deleting your Facebook account is enlightening. I did have to delete each and every photo and comment to fully scrub it. They archive it if you do not.
I’m down to Instagram and I rarely check it. I need to guard my serenity.
My daughter and I finished Monsterland last night it was great… there were moments where we were left with our jaws hanging or screaming at the TV. I def recommend it. Nicole Beharie’s episode was my fav with Kaitlyn Dever being a close second.
My life is generally better when I spend less time on social media. That means I’m making more time to read or exercise or do anything more productive than sitting and scrolling. Some days I’m embarrassed by my iPhone’s screen time report, if I’m honest, and it mostly has to do with Instagram. I’m working on it.
I’m happy for Kelly Marie getting her Disney princess moment! I know a lot of people weren’t pleased with her screen time in Rise of Skywalker, but I’m glad that experience didn’t turn her off from continuing with a good opportunity from Disney. She’s gorgeous and talented and I’m sure has great things ahead!
I quit everything many years ago now. 2013ish? I dunno can’t even remember now, but I love it. I do get nagged by friends, but they can nag all day and all night lol.
I only ever had Facebook and I deleted it several years ago and I don’t miss it a bit. My response every single time I hear someone complaining about something on Facebook/Twitter/whatever, which is practically daily, my response is “then delete it.” Everybody responds like I just told them to kill their dog. It’s all so toxic now.
I’m excited to watch “Monsterland!” I’m trying to wait for my copy of the book to get here (backordered) so I can read it first.
I love KMT and adored Rose in The Last Jedi.
I need to quit social media. It drains my mind and wears me out. I have been weaning recently. I do like the memes though.
I only use Instagram at this point. Losing FB and Twitter has improved my state of mine for sure. Social media causes too much trouble.
It’s difficult for me to fully quit social media because I do a lot of networking for my photography business on Facebook. I have to hustle every September to book family holiday sessions. I have return clients but I’m not at a full enough return roster to give it up completely. I actually have for some time (years) been doing this thing where I delete the app from my phone and only log on once a month and spend a day or two catching up socially, then I deactivate again for another month. I keep my Pages app so I can manage my business on there and that’s it. My goal is to close down my personal Facebook completely by the end of this year, I just want to pull all photos and anecdotes from my kids so I can compile them elsewhere and never look back. I love not being on social media, I am much more relaxed and much more productive. Social competition isn’t something I’ve ever really understood and I’m not good at it, and that’s essentially what social media is: another version of keeping up with the Joneses. No thanks.
Also I love KMT and still hate how she was treated. I hope we see a lot more of her.