I hadn't really thought about how Jyn hit some of my... weird family history. I was never separated from my parents, precisely, but I did live separately in a different residence from them starting when I was about 10. I don't talk about it a lot, because it's so strange and I don't want to spend half an hour explaining why and how, but. I had a very weirdly independent life from an unusually young age. And Jyn felt very -- real and familiar. Not unaffected but adapted and adaptive and unwilling to just be passively affected and changed.

I am glad that it was a movie that felt true to you as well. <3