Rian Johnson Opens Up About Struggle To Fit In All Last Jedi Characters

Star Wars: The Last Jed director Rian Johnson has confirmed that the film never included a “big” role for Captain Phasma.
Johnson admitted to IGN that Phasma’s role in the story was always the same, and there wasn’t enough time to include more of her saying,
“I mean, as you can see, man, we had a really full movie already. We had a big, big movie with a lot of characters we were trying to serve, and the God’s honest truth is, every character had to find their natural place.”