Perhaps either of you can explain why someone with barely a career outside of Youtube was injected into the mix at such a late date into production - with such exclamation ?
Her involvement at that level makes no sense at all.
Maybe she had outstanding skills on the casting couch.
Because they chose her. Really other than Alec Guinness and Harrison Ford the original SW cast was a bunch of nobodies and also rans. As for the “exclamation”, there are people who like getting less non-white faces on the screen. Her level of involvement makes as much sense as Mark Hammill who had 1 (one) voice roll pre-SW.
The way it usually works is they put out a casting call for a role, several people audition, and one of them gets the job. I had never seen or heard of the main chick, the Black guy, or the X-Wing pilot before the first one, they wanted lesser/unknowns.
If you want to get conspiratorial, her getting on her knees for the casting director is about 500 times more likely than Red China ordering them to shoehorn in a Vietnamese American or else.