“I’m the only cast member who had their own unique experience of that franchise based on their race. Let’s just leave it like that. It makes you angry with a process like that. It makes you much more militant; it changes you. Because you realise, ‘I got given this opportunity but I’m in an industry that wasn’t even ready for me.’ Nobody else in the cast had people saying they were going to boycott the movie because [they were in it]. Nobody else had the uproar and death threats sent to their Instagram DMs and social media, saying, ‘Black this and black that and you shouldn’t be a Stormtrooper.’ Nobody else had that experience. But yet people are surprised that I’m this way. That’s my frustration.”

JOHN BOYEGA for British GQ (October 2020)

#john boyega #king deserves better than the dickhead mouse

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We must protect him at all costs.

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How does it feel to be a part of a franchise with this kind of legacy?It feels really cool and quite weird at the time, because you don’t think about all of those specifics when you’re auditioning, because it’s all about booking the part, and you don’t think about that while you’re filming because it’s about the reality of the scenes. But, the characters don’t know that they’re in Star Wars movie that will change people’s lives. They’re in their reality. I remember being with my driver in the UK when we’re going to the set, and he said: You know what, mate? When you die, you’re not gonna be really dead because you’re gonna be everywhere anyway, and I just thought that’s an interesting thought. So, it’s quite surprising to be a part of that.

#i would like to thank the universe for his existence #john boyega