According to The GRIO,during an interview for the October edition of British GQ, “Star Wars” John Boyega has criticized Disney for initially positioning him as a main character in the latest “Star Wars” trilogy only to push him to the side.
His experience being apart of the movie as a character which seemed to be of importance all of a sudden wasn’t.
He states, “You get yourself involved in projects and you’re not necessarily going to like everything,” he said during an interview with GQ magazine. “What I would say to Disney is do not bring out a Black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are, and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up.”
Boyega, played the role of Finn which was one of the few black characters in the movie “Star Wars”. The character was reported as one of the key players in the space trilogy and even picked up his own lightsaber in 2015’s “The Force Awakens,” but in subsequent films he became a progressively peripheral character alongside Kelly Marie Tran — an Asian American actor who emerged as a leading character in the new trilogy’s second film but was largely absent in the third.
“They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley,” he said. “Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. But when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know f— all.”
“I’m the only cast member who had their own unique experience of that franchise based on their race,” Boyega said, adding: “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.”
We would have to agree if you will hire someone in the beginning and it was discussed as the actor being the key role and then all of a sudden switch up after everything is done wouldn’t you as the only one who is left in the dark feel slighted and angry?
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