It’s already a few months ago but Bai Ling, who was set to appear as Senator Bana Breemu in the upcoming “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,” has apparently been cut from the film according to NBC17. Ling, who visited the now-legendary fan line outside the Mann Chinese Theatre in Hollywood to promote the film, blamed her spread in the June issue of Playboy magazine for her ouster.

“I posed for Playboy and it may have been doing that which upset George Lucas (the “Star Wars” creator/director),” Ling told the New York Post’s Page Six. A LucasFilms spokesperson confirmed the cut, but claimed it had happened more than a year ago.

Ling’s Playboy spread can be found here.