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John Boyega slams Disney and claims his Star Wars character was 'sidelined' while 'the nuance' was given to his white co-stars
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 2, 2020 | Sean O'Grady

Posted on 09/02/2020 4:28:54 AM PDT by C19fan

John Boyega has slammed Disney for 'sidelining' his Star Wars character and giving 'all the nuance' to his white co-stars Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley.

The actor, 28, portrayed the franchise's first black Stormtrooper, in The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker and told how he thinks Disney marketed his character as being 'much more important' than he actually was.

Speaking in an interview with the October issue of British GQ magazine, he said: 'You get yourself involved in projects and you're not necessarily going to like everything.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: disney; johnboyega; race; star; starwars; theforceawakens; thelastjedi; theriseofskywalker
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To: C19fan
Good grief. What the heck is he talking about? I loved his character in The Force Awakens. He was a Stormtrooper who managed to overcome his brainwashing after being rescued by "Top Gun"-style pilot Po Dameron.

But it just goes to show Daisy Ridley that thinking that us Trump voters are crazy is simply not good enough nowadays.


21 posted on 09/02/2020 4:54:38 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: Flag_This

LOL!


22 posted on 09/02/2020 4:55:12 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: C19fan

The dude still cashed a sweet paycheck. Got no pity.


23 posted on 09/02/2020 4:55:38 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: C19fan
There should not have even been a black stormtrooper ... they were all cloned from a white guy!

Disney went out of their way to make a PC movie ... why is he complaining?

24 posted on 09/02/2020 4:56:44 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: C19fan

The JarJar Binks of Stormtroopers.


25 posted on 09/02/2020 4:57:07 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: freedumb2003
This has already happened with the Kelvin timeline in ST which has been terminated and declared not canonical.

That's too bad. The three principals, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy were really well cast. If only they just made something like TOS into movies and not mucked around with alternate timelines instead of whatever it is JJ did, it could have been good.

26 posted on 09/02/2020 4:58:21 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: C19fan
He played a character that was a loyal soldier to an oppressive, tyrannical system, who had an epiphany and turned on his old masters to fight for freedom.

No wonder he's pissed off, he was portrayed as a conservative!

27 posted on 09/02/2020 5:00:33 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Sirius Lee

The cost of pissing all over canon.


28 posted on 09/02/2020 5:02:23 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: freedumb2003

Rose was the most pointless character... bad enough the role was poorly written, the actress couldn’t act her way out of a paper bag...

But hardly is she the first star wars actor to be sub par.

She was another Kennedy woke nonsense garbage. How Kennedy still has a job is beyond me.


29 posted on 09/02/2020 5:03:10 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: mewzilla
For Mr. Boyega...

Robot Chicken: The Farce Awokens

30 posted on 09/02/2020 5:03:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: C19fan

“John Boyega has slammed Disney for ‘sidelining’ his Star Wars character and giving ‘all the nuance’ to his white co-stars Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley.”

The days first sermon from the Church of the Perpetually Aggrieved.


31 posted on 09/02/2020 5:06:38 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Take your mask and shove it! I am a proud WhuFlu Heretic and Trump Deplorable.)
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To: mewzilla

THAT was freaking hilarious!


32 posted on 09/02/2020 5:07:45 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: CatOwner

How about creating black characters under new movie plot-lines rather than butcher the existing movie history?

How about writing films with interesting stories and who gives a blank what the skin color of the actor is.


33 posted on 09/02/2020 5:08:18 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: C19fan

Maybe he is a piece of wood and cannot act??


34 posted on 09/02/2020 5:09:51 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: C19fan

Hint.
There was one Luke and one Vader.
There were tens of thousands cloned stormtroopers.

The movie series did not revolve around a select group of extras.


35 posted on 09/02/2020 5:12:26 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Pravious
How about writing films with interesting stories and who gives a blank what the skin color of the actor is.

Well, we know that's not going to happen. The genie has been let out of the bottle. The best they can do is give minority actors unique and new characters, rather than take existing movie lines and force race and gender into the production. That's what I think they should do, but Hollywood has gone down the SJW rabbit hole willingly.

36 posted on 09/02/2020 5:12:30 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Pravious

[ How about writing films with interesting stories and who gives a blank what the skin color of the actor is.]

Right? When I was a kid, Lando Calrissian’s (BD Williams) skin color was the last thing i cared about.


37 posted on 09/02/2020 5:14:05 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: C19fan

Is this dude whining AGAIN?


38 posted on 09/02/2020 5:14:11 AM PDT by VOR78
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To: Gen.Blather

Actor, “Most of the time you only have enough love for one person, yourself”...


39 posted on 09/02/2020 5:19:09 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: freedumb2003
The reins will be handed back to Lucas who will rewrite canon correctly.

Right. And JarJar will finally become a Jedi Master.

40 posted on 09/02/2020 5:19:20 AM PDT by sphinx
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