Kelly Marie Tran comes out as queer

Kelly Marie Tran has come out publicly as queer.

Speak with Vanity fair about her upcoming remake of Ang Lee‘s queer rom-com The wedding banquetthe Star Wars actress felt encouraged to put her truth on record for the first time. “I haven’t said this publicly yet, but I am a queer person,” Tran says.

About her involvement in the remake from queer filmmaker Andrew Ahn, she added: “What really excited me about it was that I got to play a person that I felt like I knew. I don’t feel like I was in this movie.”

“I’m here to make this great movie with these great people,” Tran said. “I’ve never been in a strange environment. I’ve never felt so accepted.”

Kelly Marie Tran.

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In Ahn’s remake, Tran stars as Angela, a woman trying to have a child through IVF with her girlfriend Lee (played by an Academy Award-nominated actress). Lily Gladstone). Their best friends Chris (Bowen Yang) and his partner Min (Han Gi-chan).

Min, under pressure to return to his native Korea to take over the family business, comes up with a plan with Angela: a fake wedding so he can get a green card and Angela can raise money for IVF treatment – and that while satisfying Min’s old-fashioned pleasure. family back home.

The star-studded cast also includes Minari Oscar winner Yuh-Jung Youn as Min’s grandmother and Joan Chen as Angela’s mother. Of her own coming out journey, Tran told VF: “I came out to my mother in a very specific experience. The scenes I have with Joan Chen in this film are very similar to the experience I had.

Tran has long been an advocate for LGBTQ+ inclusion and previously stated that she believes her character in Disney’s Raya and the last dragon is strange and that she would be “overjoyed” to make a strange sequel. “I think if you’re a person watching this movie and you see the representation in a way that feels really real and authentic to you, then it’s real and authentic,” Tran told VF in 2021. in trouble for saying that, but whatever.