Posted on 04/01/2025 6:37:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
As if Disney didn't have enough to worry about with its ongoing string of disappointing returns for its Star Wars projects, sequel trilogy star John Boyega decided to chime in with a new interview and call fans of the popular space opera saga racists.
Yes, that's just what a flagging intellectual property needed — accuse all of its devoted fans of not being willing to accept non-white characters.
Boyega, who played stormtroop-turned-resistance-fighter "Finn" in the sequel trilogy, makes the allegation in a new AppleTV+ documentary titled Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood, which, one could assume, is about black leading men in Hollywood.
From Variety:
'Lemme tell ya, Star Wars always had the vibe of being in the most whitest, elite space. It's a franchise that's so white that a Black person existing in [it] was something,' Boyega said in the documentary. 'You can always tell it's something when some Star Wars fans try to say, "Well, we had Lando Calrissian and had Samuel L. Jackson!" It's like telling me how many cookie chips are in the cookie dough. It's like, they just scattered that in there, bro!'
Boyega then goes on to say that Star Wars' super-white fanbase is only willing to accept black actors in specific roles.
'They're okay with us playing the best friend, but once we touch their heroes, once we lead, once we trailblaze, it's like, "Oh my God, it's just a bit too much! They're pandering,"' the actor added, while also acknowledging that being cast in the franchise was a 'fundamental moment' in his career.
Apparently lost on Boyega is the fact that Star Wars fans were actually disappointed that more wasn't done with his character of Finn. Many argued that he should have been the main character of the sequel "trilogy" (if you can call it that).
Disney left him to perform side quests and run around screaming "REEEEEEEEEEEY!" all the time.
(No but really, he ran around yelling her name A LOT)
Here's an idea, John: Be grateful for winning the lottery ticket of getting to be featured in a Star Wars trilogy.
It's not the fans' fault your storyline sucked.
No. Clonetroopers are clones. Stormtroopers, made when the Republic turned into the Empire, have NEVER been clones.
There are actually quite a few black persons living in Israel. Israel rescued the Falasha in Ethiopia and brought them to Israel.
Racism:Not nobody respecting "cultural appropriation" and abandoning the essentials listed.
- local fire hydrant
- 3 potholes between my house and the store (where I pay for some things)
- dental floss (being racist, I do not floss)
- white bread
- the weather
- "the way that person looked at me"
- water (on which slave ships saled)
- all cloth materials (used by slave ships)
- wood (used in construction of slave ships)
- various metals (copper, bronze, iron used by slave ships)
- wind (used by slave ships)
- clocks (used by slave ships)
- fire (used by slave ships)
- navigation (used by slave ships)
“ Stormtroopers, made when the Republic turned into the Empire, have NEVER been clones”
Almost correct. The surviving earlier clone troopers became storm troopers and were the trainers of human storm troopers.
But, yes, you are 99% correct that almost all stormtroopers were human draftees as the clone troopers (who aged at a faster rate) rapidly died off.
Exactly correct.
Yes, there was a short window. But they got squeezed out pretty quick.
I quit SWars when this doosh appeared. He was horrid.
Ewoks are brown. Jaba is autumn colored. C3PO is gold. No one knows what color the Storm Troupers are. Chewbacca is brown. Yoda is green. The customers in the bar are every color. Ok, ok, Blacks in the movies are, the ever imposing Mr. James Earl Jones, the ever cool Billy Dee Williams, of course Samuel L. Jackson and many others so don’t understand why this as been whined about in recent years.
The fact that dirt is black and snow is white proves that racism is real.
Michelle’s culturally appropriated white chick straight hair.
Jeez. These liberals just can’t stop biting the hand that feeds them.
“White men are the least bigoted people on the planet.”
And that may be a problem for whites, because they are the least likely to defend their own against attacks and the most likely to be guilt tripped into submission.
Isn’t that what we are living?
The sequel trilogy is set in the age after the fall of the empire. Stormtroopers are no longer clones
I had absolutely no desire to watch anything Star Wars related until now. The only reason that I would do so now would be to spite this guy.
It’s the Disney Curse...........
Ah a flashback to 45 years ago. When the first movie became a mega hit the whiners immediately cried there were no blacks in it so Lucas bowing to this introduced Lando in Empre. Star Wars is dead to me now so wail away John. The more damage you can do to woke Disney the better.
Nobody cared about that in the 70s. Lando came to be because Ford was only signed on a one picture deal (unlike the rest of the cast). And Ford wasn’t sure he wanted to come back. So there was an intention to replace Solo with Lando, which is why he’s basically the same character. By the time Ford signed on they already had Billy Dee under contract and decided 2 was more fun than 1. Also Ford had once again only signed a 1 picture deal, so having Lando already set for 3 was strategically smart (also part of the ending, if they couldn’t re-sign Ford, no problem, just don’t rescue Solo). Now in the gap between trilogies, yes the world had changed and SW was getting heat for the lack of blacks.
They did do his character wrong, but they hired a black man just because he was black. They admitted this. So he was a DEI hire and got a 3 movie deal.
He is not that good an actor. I keep getting told otherwise, bit I don’t see it.
Surprisingly, Reddit is agreeing that it was Disney’s writers that gave the shaft to Boyega/Finn in the franchise.
The Redditors are mostly agreeing that the FANS were on board with a clone turned Jedi Finn arc, but the writers had Boyega running around yelling, Reyyyyyy the whole time.
I enjoyed The Force Awakens and his character/the plot. That was the last SW movie I have seen (10 years ago) and don’t plan on seeing any more. Go Disney woke, go Disney broke.
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