10 Actors Who FREAKED OUT When Their Movie Characters Died

10. Thandiwe Newton Wasn't Happy With Val Not Being Given An Open-Ended Fall - Solo: A Star Wars Story

Assembling the likes of Woody Harrelson, Thandiwe Newton, and many more reliable talents around Alden Ehrenreich's iteration of a young Han Solo seemed like a sure-fire way of guaranteeing a ton of quality performances across the board in 2016's Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Only, before fans could really embrace or get to truly know Newton's Val in particular, one of the first real stand-out Black female characters in Star Wars history was quickly dispatched during a rather dramatic mission gone wrong.

As it goes, this heartbreaking development wasn't actually a part of the original scripts, with Newton later revealing to Inverse:

"...in the script, she wasn’t killed. It happened during filming. And it was much more just to do with the time we had to do the scenes."

Going further on the topic of her untimely and definitive exit, the frustrated Westworld star would also add:

"I remembered at the time thinking, “This is a big, big mistake” — not because of me, not because I wanted to come back. You don’t kill off the first Black woman to ever have a real role in a Star Wars movie. Like, are you f*cking joking?"

Lucasfilm and Disney unfortunately were not, and any hopes of Val's return later down the road were emphatically thwarted with a wholly disappointing explosion.