Actor Kelly Marie Tran has a long list of Hollywood credits to her name. But in just about every interview, including a recent one-on-one with TODAY, she's asked about the importance of diversity in media.

It's something she "absolutely" gets tired of talking about, she laughed, but also something she plans to keep talking about until "we don't have to talk about it anymore."

She said her "Raya and the Last Dragon" co-star Daniel Dae Kim had said something about it that really stuck with her.

“He said that the goal is for our children and our children's children to not talk about representation because we are so equally represented across every medium and sphere,” she recalled. “I think that is the absolute goal. The fact of the matter is, where we are now, we have to talk about it because we are not there yet.

“But yeah, that day when we don't have to talk about (it) anymore, I will be sipping a martini,” she chuckled.

Tran is no stranger to the impact a diverse face can have in a historically white Hollywood. When she was cast as mechanic Rose Tico in the 2017 film “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” the role made her the first Asian American woman to star in a “Star Wars” movie. Despite some celebration over her role and its significance for the AAPI community, trolls immediately slammed her with racist and sexist comments.

It was a traumatizing experience, she says, but she learned from it.