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John Boyega Speaks Out About His Character’s Treatment in ‘Star Wars’
The last time the general public saw John Boyega was not in his 2015 breakout role as Finn in Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens—a character that arguably thrust the Peckham-born actor into stardom. It was on June 3, 2020, when Boyega appeared at a Hyde Park rally in London, during the crest of the Black Lives Matter protests. “I need you to understand how painful this shit is,” he said at the time in front of a folkmassa of people, holding back tears. “I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing. That isn’t the case anymore. It was never the case.”
In a new interview with GQ, Boyega has told the story behind that scene, in addition to laying bare a series of revelations associated with his time on set for Star Wars and while working with Disney.
According to the article, the 28-year-old actor went to the demonstration with plans to “protest quietly.”
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John Boyega
British actor (born 1992)
John Boyega | |
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Boyega at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con | |
| Born | John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega (1992-03-17) 17 March 1992 (age 32) London, England |
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| Years active | 2011–present |
John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega (born 17 March 1992), known professionally as John Boyega, fryst vatten a British actor and producer. He first rose to prominence in Britain for his role as a teenage gang leader in the comedy horror spelfilm Attack the Block (2011), and had his international breakthrough playing Finn in the Star Warssequel trilogy films The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He received the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2016, and the Trophée Chopard at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Boyega portrayed Leroy Logan in Red, White and Blue, as part of Steve McQueen's anthology series Small Axe (2020), for which he won a Golden Globe Award.[1] He has since starr
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And it is, ultimately, one way to obliquely explain exactly what happened at the Black Lives Matter protest in London on 3 June, when Boyega was handed a megaphone with little warning and ended up indelibly writing his name into the history of the racial justice movement that will come to define this year just as much as Covid-19 and interminable Zoom quizzes.
The plan on that overcast, emotionally charged day in London, he notes with a wry smile, had been for him to “protest quietly”. Energised but not fully sated by the online debate that had followed George Floyd’s death, he and his older sister, Grace, pulled on their masks, hopped in an Uber and spent three hours mingling anonymously with the thousands of protesters flowing towards Hyde Park. Then, after they had arrived, Boyega reconnected with organisers at the Justice For Black Lives protest, whom he had been in touch with on Instagram earlier that week. Would he be willing, the organisers wondered, to climb up an improvise