Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Writer Says Rose Tico Scenes were Cut Because of Leia Organa

One of the more disappointing aspects of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was the lack of significant scenes featuring Rose Tico. However, the film's co-writer has just revealed that Kelly Marie Tran's lack of screentime had a lot to do with General Leia Organa.

Chris Terrio, who co-wrote The Rise of Skywalker with director J.J. Abrams, recently spoke to AwardsDaily about the lack of scenes featuring Rose. Interestingly, Terrio admitted that they had difficulty adding more of Rose in the film because most of her scenes involved the late Carrie Fisher's character.

"One of the reasons that Rose has a few less [sic] 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," Terrio said. "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."

Unfortunately, Terrio explained that they didn't have enough footage of Fisher to work with and they were forced to abandon the idea.

"A few of the scenes we'd written with Rose and Leia turned out not to meet the standard of photo-realism that we'd hoped for. Those scenes, unfortunately, fell out of the film," Terrio said. "The last thing we were doing was deliberately trying to sideline Rose."

It would have been cool to see Rose and Leia working together in The Rise of Skywalker. Unfortunately, the movie had to work with the footage they had and ended up abandoning the interactions. In the meantime, people have ideas on how to bring back Rose in an awesome way.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is still screening in theaters worldwide.

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