The lost female pilots of Return of the JediĪt least three female extras were cast, costumed, and filmed for the Battle of Endor sequences of Return of the Jedi. The rest was left on the cutting room floor. The quick-eyed can glimpse female Rebel officers in the backgrounds of Mon Mothma’s briefing in Return of the Jedi, but that’s about all we’ve got. In A New Hope, when General Jan Dodonna briefs the Rebellion’s fleet on the Death Star, there isn’t a single woman to be seen, and the same is the case for Rebel troops in the air and on the snow on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. Poppy Hands as an A-wing pilot Walt Disney Studios/Lucasfilm I’m speaking, of course, of female Rebellion pilots. The latest film in the Star Wars franchise rescues a group of characters from the cutting floor of Return of the Jedi, and establishes that they’ve been with the Rebellion all along. But one of its most surprising is less of a cameo than a first official appearance.
Rogue One has a lot of cameos, references and Star Wars in-jokes.
