Star Wars-fansen som hade sett fram emot mer av Rose Tico i The Rise of Skywalker blev säkerligen besvikna på det faktum att Kelly Marie Tran mest var en bakgrundskaraktär, som tydligen bara var med i totalt 1 minut och 16 sekunder. Detta har ofta tolkats som ett svar på kritiken mot karaktären i Rian Johnsons kontroversiella The Last Jedi. Chris Terrio, som skrev manuset tillsammans med J.J. Abrams, förklarade dock för Awards Daily att det snarare rörde sig om svårigheter att implementera Tico i Leia-scenerna:
"Well, first of all, J.J. and I adore Kelly Marie Tran. One of the reasons that Rose has a few less scenes than we would like her to have has to do with the difficulty of using Carrie's footage in the way we wanted to. We wanted Rose to be the anchor at the rebel base who was with Leia. We thought we couldn't leave Leia at the base without any of the principals who we love, so Leia and Rose were working together. As the process evolved, a few scenes we'd written with Rose and Leia turned out to not meet the standard of photorealism that we'd hoped for. Those scenes unfortunately fell out of the film. The last thing we were doing was deliberately trying to sideline Rose. We adore the character, and we adore Kelly - so much so that we anchored her with our favorite person in this galaxy, General Leia."
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