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Thandiwe Newton: Killing Off My ‘Star Wars’ Character Was A ‘Big, Big Mistake’

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Thandiwe Newton made history in 2018 as the first Black woman to have a major role in a “Star Wars” movie when she appeared as Val in “Solo: A Star Wars Story”.

Now, the “Reminiscence” star says the original script didn’t have her character die in an explosion — that disappointing change was made during filming on the Ron Howard-directed movie. “I felt disappointed by Star Wars that my character was killed.

And, actually, 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.

It’s much easier just to have me die than it is to have me fall into a vacuum of space so I can come back sometime,” she tells Inverse.

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