In an interview with Vanity Fair about her upcoming remake of Ang Lee’s queer romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet, Star Wars actress Kelly Marie Tran has publicly come out as queer.
The Star Wars actress felt emboldened to step into her truth on the record for the first time. “I haven’t said this publicly yet, but I’m a queer person,” shared Tran.
She added of her involvement in queer filmmaker Andrew Ahn’s remake, “The thing that really 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.”
“I’m here doing this amazing movie with these amazing people,” said Tran. “I’ve never been in a queer space before. I’ve never truly felt this accepted before.”
Ahn’s reimagining stars Tran as Angela, a woman trying to have a baby through IVF with her girlfriend Lee (played by Academy Award-nominated actress Lily Gladstone). Residing in their guest home are their best pals 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, hatches a plan with Angela: a fake wedding, so he could secure a green card and Angela could raise funds for IVF treatment — all while pleasing Min’s old-fashioned family back home.
Read the full interview here.
