“I’ve never truly felt this accepted before”: Star Wars’ Kelly Marie Tran comes out as queer
Raya and the Last Dragon star Kelly Marie Tran has publicly come out as queer. The 35-year-old talent announced the exciting news during a recent Vanity Fair feature for her film The Wedding Banquet – which is a remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 queer romantic comedy of the same name. “I haven’t said this publicly yet, but I’m a queer person,” she exclaimed.
Tran went on to gush about the upcoming Andrew Ahn-directed project and how portraying her gay character didn’t feel like acting. “The thing that excited me about it was I got to play a person that I felt like I knew.
I don’t feel like I’m acting at all in this movie,” she continued. “I’m here doing this amazing movie with these amazing people.
I’ve never been in a queer space before. I’ve never truly felt this accepted.” Taking place in Seattle, Washington, The Wedding Banquet remake follows Angela (Tran) and her girlfriend Lee (Lilly Gladstone), who are trying to have a baby through IVF, and their best friends Chris (Bowen Yang) and Min (Han Gi-chan), who live in the former couple’s guest house, per the aforementioned news outlet.
