--- title: Diego Luna Shares Fan Story About Representation, Star Wars description: Diego Luna took to Twitter to share a touching story that one of his fans had posted after seeing Luna in 'Rogue One.' canonical: https://time.com/4621972/diego-luna-fan-story-rogue-one-diversity/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-04T18:02:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:54.156Z og:title: Diego Luna Shares a Touching Story From a 'Rogue One' Fan og:description: "I got emotional reading this" og:url: https://time.com/4621972/diego-luna-fan-story-rogue-one-diversity/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt008334664a93a30c/6988b461e20a874641a93a2c/diego-luna-representation-rogue-one.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" - Launch Event - Red Carpet Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Diego Luna Shares a Touching Story From a 'Rogue One' Fan twitter:description: "I got emotional reading this" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt008334664a93a30c/6988b461e20a874641a93a2c/diego-luna-representation-rogue-one.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Diego Luna Just Shared the Most Heartwarming Story About Representation in _Rogue One_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 4, 2017 6:02 PM UTC  Diego Luna attends the launch event for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" at Tate Modern on December 13, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images) Diego Luna attends the launch event for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" at Tate Modern on December 13, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)John Phillips—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 4, 2017 6:02 PM UTC [Diego Luna](http://time.com/3858149/diego-luna-star-wars-spin-off-rogue-one/) pulled on the collective heartstrings off the entire Internet when he took to his Twitter on Tuesday night to share a touching story from a [_Rogue One_](http://time.com/4594017/rogue-one-star-wars-timeline/)fan. The tweet includes an image of a Tumblr post written by a fan whose father is Mexican, just like Luna. In the Tumblr post, the fan details how significant it was for both she and her father to see characters who looked and sounded like them on-screen. “I wanted my Mexican father, with his thick Mexican accent, to experience what it was like to see a _hero_ in a blockbuster film speak the way he does,” she wrote. The fan closed out the post by reiterating just [how important diversity on-screen is](http://time.com/7278/agencies-hollywood-racial-diversity/). “My dad was so happy,” she said. “As we drove home he started telling me about other Mexican actors he thinks should be in movie in America. Representation matters.” Read the full post below. > [](https://twitter.com/diegoluna%5F/status/816479341588709377) Diego Luna Shares Fan Story About Representation, Star Wars ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4621972/diego-luna-fan-story-rogue-one-diversity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4621972/diego-luna-fan-story-rogue-one-diversity/"},"headline":"Diego Luna Just Shared the Most Heartwarming Story About Representation in Rogue One","datePublished":"2017-01-04T18:02:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:54.156Z","description":"\"I got emotional reading this\"","url":"https://time.com/4621972/diego-luna-fan-story-rogue-one-diversity/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Star Wars topic","celebrity","Culture","Rogue one"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt008334664a93a30c/6988b461e20a874641a93a2c/diego-luna-representation-rogue-one.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt008334664a93a30c/6988b461e20a874641a93a2c/diego-luna-representation-rogue-one.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story\" - Launch Event - Red Carpet Arrivals","caption":"\"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story\" - Launch Event - Red Carpet Arrivals","creditText":"John Phillips—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4621972/diego-luna-fan-story-rogue-one-diversity/","name":"Diego Luna Just Shared the Most Heartwarming Story About Representation in Rogue One"}}]}] ```