Rose Tico

Species: Human
Gender: Female
Height: 5’2″
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Age: 24
Force Side: None
Love Interest: Finn
Father: Hue Tico
Mother: Thanya Tico
Language: English
Accent: North American
Voice: High Soprano
Wookieepedia Link: 
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Rose_Tico

CASTING TYPE:  VOICE ONLY

 

 

 

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 Background Story

Following in her big sister’s, Paige, footsteps, Rose Tico joined the Resistance to liberate impoverished planets like hers from the tyranny of the First Order.  Growing up on Hays Minor, a isolated, poor man’s mining colony in the Otomok system, the sisters learned to pilot her grandmother’s old Z-95 (the predecessor to the now-popular X-Wing) and subsequently taught Rose how to fix up the ship and create parts for it, as most replacement parts for such an old, outdated ship were no longer in circulation.  When the First Order took control of the Hays system, it forced Rose’s people to mine the planets’ resources to feed their war machine. Rose and Paige would often defend their parents and extended family from the ruthlessness of those in charge of the mines. The girls’ parents encouraged them to escape Hays and find the Resistance — joining them under Cobalt Squadron, which was part of the bomb squad of the Resistance.  

Rose eventually received news that the First order shelled her people to test the results. Having lost everything they had to the First Order, Rose and her sister committed themselves to the Resistance to avenge their homeworld.  The two sisters decided they could make a bigger impact on the First Order if they stayed with the Resistance even after their terms expired, so they did. Rose and Paige promised themselves that they would stop the First Order from pillaging and destroying other worlds and end the suffering of enslavement.  However, after Paige died in the Battle of D’Qar, Rose committed herself even further — almost religiously — to the efforts of the Resistance against the First Order.  The Resistance was now all she had left. This is something that has stayed with her and its the reason she despises deserters. 

During the Battle of Crait, she nearly lost her life preventing Finn from kamikazeing into the First Order’s superlaser siege cannon.  When she briefly came to, she delivered a poignant message to Finn right before she leaned in and kissed a bewildered Finn.  After, Finn was thrown into several missions across the galaxy, pulling him away from Rose.  Rose in turn just dove into work.  The two never really addressed the encounter, except briefly to say they should remain friends.  However, for Rose there was no one else she was attracted to “in that way” other than Finn.  And Finn was always keen to seek her out whenever he’d return from a mission — often to find she was on her own mission abroad. 

After the Battle of Exegol, things shifted. Finn was no longer her peer, but her boss. She didn’t know how to bring up the feelings that plagued her, so she pushed them down. Finn is now caught up in the whirlwind that is trying to rebuild the Resistance from where it was left after Exegol AND the added stressor of having to care for the thousands of refugees that now looks to the Resistance for help.  Will these two ever catch a break? Let’s find out in Star Wars: The Chosen One. 

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 Submission Dialogue

The following is a scene from the upcoming fan film,  Star Wars: The Chosen One (Episode X), which is registered with the US Copyright Office. We ask all submissions to read from the scene here for the parts in this call sheet, the other dialogue is there for context and does not need to be included.  You do not have to submit the entire scene, only the parts you feel will best showcase your voice acting. 

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INT. NABOO, VARYKINO VILLA, BRIDE’S ROOM – MORNING

ZORII and ROSE TICO (human female, 24) are helping REY put on her wedding gown, a simple yet elegant gown made of lace, old Nabooian lace. ZORII is fussing with REY’s hair, while ROSE is tying up the bodice from behind.

REY
Rose! I can’t breathe!

ROSE TICO
Breathing is optional in a wedding. You didn’t know?

ZORII BLISS
REY! Sit still.

REY
I can’t… this one is trying to kill me!

ZORII BLISS
Does it have to be that tight?

ROSE TICO
It’s strapless! You want it to fall off as she’s walking down the aisle?

REY
Uhhh, no! We cannot have that!

ROSE TICO
Then hold your breath and tighten up!

REY takes a deep breath, ROSE tugs at the bodice as tight as she can. She shimmies back and forth as ROSE tugs.

ZORII BLISS
This hair is not cooperating!

ZORII is trying to get a ribbon around REY’s hair. There is a knock on the door. REY exhales hard and the lace comes undone in ROSE’s hands. ROSE exhales in frustration.

REY
(in unison)
Come in!

ZORII BLISS
(in unison)
Come in!

ROSE TICO
(in unison)
Come in!

MAZ KANATA comes in carrying an intricately carved wooden box. The three girls in the room look to her.

MAZ KANATA
I got something for you, Rey.

REY
Maz! You didn’t have to.

ROSE TICO
(curiously)
Yeah she did.
(beat)
What’s in the box, Maz?

ROSE moves in front and goes to touch the wooden box, but ZORII lightly smacks her hand away and grins.

ZORII BLISS
(to Rose)
Girl…
(beat)
Get your grub paws off.

MAZ stands in front of REY and smiles.

MAZ KANATA
Take a guess.

REY
I have no air left in me to try to guess.

MAZ KANATA
Something old and sentimental.

REY
You really didn’t have to, Maz.

ZORII BLISS
It’s a tradition, on the core worlds. To wear something old.

ROSE TICO
And just how do you know that?

ZORII BLISS
What?
(beat)
A girl can’t dream of having a wedding someday?

REY
(smiles to Zorii)
Well, dreams do come true, Zorii. You’re next!

ZORII BLISS
(chuckles)
If I don’t kill him first.

MAZ KANATA
(chuckles)
Been there, myself.

ROSE TICO
(shocked)
You’ve been married, Maz?

MAZ KANATA
A few times. But that’s a story for another time.

ZORII BLISS
You’re full of stories, Maz.

MAZ smiles and she opens the wooden box to reveal Padme Amidala Skywalker’s wedding veil.

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