John Boyega criticized Disney for initially positioning him as a main character in the latest “Star Wars” trilogy only to push him to the side in later films.
“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, who played the role of Finn, one of the only Black characters in the latest Jedi franchise, was first unveiled to fans as a key player in the new film trilogy but later became a fringe character alongside Kelly Marie Tran the only Asian American actor. /li>
British actor 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.
“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, who played the role of Finn, one of the only Black characters in the latest Jedi franchise, was first unveiled to fans as a key player in the new 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 — the only Asian American actor in the new franchise.
“They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this,” he said. “But when it came to Kelly Marie Tran when it came to John Boyega, you know .”