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John Boyegais sick of prejudicedStar Warsfans.
“It’s like telling me how many cookie chips are in the cookie dough.
It’s like, they just scattered that in there, bro!”
John Boyega at the premiere of ‘Number One on the Call Sheet’.Credit:JC Olivera/Variety via Getty
TheThey Cloned Tyronestar went on to criticize certain fans' inability to accept Black actors in leading roles.
They’re pandering!'"
Still, Boyega remembers his firstStar Warsfilm as the biggest turning point in his career.
John Boyega as Finn in ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’.Jonathan Olley/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/ Lucasfilm/Courtesy Everett Collection
“The Force Awakensto me was a fundamental moment,” he said in the documentary.
“We waited months for that.
It’s like, ‘That’s it?
That’s the call!’
It’s such an attack on reality.”
Boyega remembered that he “snitched” about his casting after being instructed not to tell anyone.
“You’re not gonna know who I tell!”
he said in the doc.
“I got in a taxi and told the driver.
That was the first person I told.
‘Bro, I just gotStar Wars!’
He was like, ‘Oh, yeah, congratulations mate.
Great, that’ll be 45 pounds, just.’
It was that kinda moment.
But I had to share.
I know the rules were like, ‘Don’t share.’
But come on, man, you just offered me the opportunity of a lifetime!”
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