Star Wars: 20 Things You Didn't Know About The Last Jedi
5. Rose's Personality Was Changed During Production
Curiously the movie's most "controversial" and divisive character was one who underwent a fair reworking during production.
Though when we first meet Rose she's something of a Resistance fangirl and remains a pillar of chirpy optimism throughout, Rian Johnson originally wrote her as a more dour, cynical character.
Once he cast Kelly Marie Tran and saw how she interacted with John Boyega, though, he tweaked Rose to be less surly and more hopeful:
"The character was written as more of an Eeyore type initially in the script, so she was a little more grumpy and doesn't really trust [Finn]. The more I got to know Kelly, she just has this open, beautiful spirit and I thought you have to see that at the beginning of this character. That's got to be what this character is about, is what she's about. It was really because of Kelly that the whole dynamic of the character changed. Thank god."
Would a less open-hearted take on the character have changed fan perception of Rose? Considering the bigoted basis of many fans' issues with Rose, probably not.