Lana Condor Was Almost Cast in This ‘Star Wars’ Role—But We’re So Glad She Didn’t Get It
She has a role of a lifetime as Lara Jean Covey in To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, but Lana Condor was almost cast in Star Wars as Rose Tico and could’ve been in a whole different cinematic universe. Condor, 22, revealed in her StyleCaster Self-Love issue cover story that she was a runner-up to play Rose in 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi. She, of course, lost the role to Kelly Marie Tran, who plays Rose in The Last Jedi and 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. But Condor doesn’t beat herself up over it. Instead, she views it as a blessing that allowed her to do To All the Boys, whose sequel, To All the Boys:...
