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We’ll get to that later.īefore I digress too much more, let’s start from the beginning and take a look at all of the women in RotS. If you count the female speaking roles in the deleted scenes the number of female speaking roles in RotS jumps from one to six. So there’s a lot of Padmé in this article because she is really the only one to talk about.Ĭrazy side note. Even in The Empire Strikes Back a female rebel solider had a line about an ion cannon. Which is something I didn’t realize until I started breaking down this film. RotS has the fewest female speaking roles of any Star Wars film. And one of my favorite female Star Wars characters, Padmé, is not served as well as she could have been. But there’s no changing the fact that in RotS the women are very hard to find. I really love this movie – in large part because I’m a huge fan of Obi-Wan Kenobi – and there is a ton of Kenobi in this film.

One of the main reasons I wanted to write this series is because of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (RotS).

However, if you’re looking for a woman in a Star Wars film that looks like you (and speaks – and is more than an extra) – and you’re not white and a brunette – there’s still room for a ton of improvement for female Star Wars roles. Finding female pilots, aliens, Jedi, and bounty hunters in The Phantom Menace (TPM) and Attack of the Clones (AotC) where there were few to none in A New Hope (ANH), The Empire Strikes Back (ESB), and Return of the Jedi (RotJ) does show progress in female representation in Star Wars. Looking back at the first five Star Wars films unfortunately almost all of the female roles (except for of course Leia and Padmé) are in the background, and the women don’t have much (or anything) to say. The journey began with my breakdown of Episode IV: A New Hopeif you want to start at the beginning of this series. I’ve enjoyed looking at where women are (and aren’t) in the first five films and seeing the more diverse roles women start to play in Star Wars films as years go by.

This is the sixth installment of my series for FANgirl looking at screenshots of all the women that appeared in Star Wars films.

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