Kelly Marie Tran of ?Star Wars: The Last Jedi? has spoken out to explain her decision in June to delete all her Instagram posts following harassment from online trolls.
SfGate reports, in an essay published in the New York Times, Tran reflects on ?the spiral of self-hatred? she experienced growing up as a Vietnamese-American. She wrote, ?It wasn?t their words, it?s that I started to believe them.?
Tran, who became the first non-white woman to have a leading role in a ?Star Wars? movie, admitted that the attacks from racist trolls had gotten under her skin.
Tran said the racist comments ?reinforced a narrative I had heard my whole life: that I was other,? that I didn?t belong, that I wasn?t good enough, simply because I wasn?t like them.?
In the essay, Tran pledges to make a difference in the roles she chooses. She wrote, ?I want to live in a world where children of color don?t spend their entire adolescence wishing to be white.?
