Thandiwe Newton made history in 2018 as the first Black woman to have a major role in a “Star Wars” movie.
She appeared in “Solo: A Star Wars Story” as Val, a member of Beckett’s (Woody Harrelson) crew.
As seen in the movie, her character dies in an explosion after detonating a bomb that destroys a bridge.
But according to the actress in a recent interview with Inverse, her death was not written into the original script.“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,” said Newton, who feels killing
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