Yeah. I’m not sure you get one from the other with Gwendolyn Chrstie’s comments vs. her on screen performance. Did we see the wrong movie? It would have been amazing for “Traitor!!” trooper to have been subbed for Phasma instead. And then when Han shoots, it just glances off her chromium armor like it’s no big deal. That would have been a fun moment. We see her for a couple scenes, she doesn’t do a whole lot, and then gets dumped, in every sense of the word. Was the ‘strong woman’ budget spent all on Rey?
Who knows. I keep hearing there was stuff cut from this film due to runtime and to keep it tight. I hear we lost a couple of Maz Kanata bits because Nyong’o “wasn’t delivering” and we may have lost a scene with Luke (though, I’m a big, big fan of how they actually left us wanting more rather than breaking the tension with anything additional).
It’s going to be a long wait.