{"id":54117,"date":"2022-08-23T18:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-boyega-says-he-wont-return-to-star-wars-franchise\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T18:58:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:58:36","slug":"john-boyega-says-he-wont-return-to-star-wars-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-boyega-says-he-wont-return-to-star-wars-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"John Boyega Says He Won’t Return to ‘Star Wars’ Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tJohn Boyega became an international breakout star playing Finn in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d sequel trilogy. But the actor, who stars in upcoming films \u201cBreaking\u201d and \u201cThe Woman King,\u201d doesn’t have much of an interest in returning to the galactic franchise.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cAt this point I’m cool off it. I’m good off it,\u201d Boyega said on SiriusXM’s \u201cTell Me Everything With John Fugelsang.\u201d \u201cI think Finn is at a good confirmation point where you can just enjoy him in other things, the games, the animation. But I feel like ‘[Episode] VII’ to ‘[Episode] IX’ was good for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tBoyega added: \u201cTo be fair, [with] the allies that I’ve found within Joel Taylor and Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, Viola Davis, all these people I’ve been working with\u2026 versatility is my path.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tBoyega also discussed his experience facing racism in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d fandom, an issue that \u201cObi-Wan Kenobi\u201d star Moses Ingram dealt with earlier this year. Disney and Obi-Wan himself, Ewan McGregor, came to Ingram’s defense and publicly decried the racist backlash she was receiving. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cMoses Ingram being protected makes me feel protected. Do you understand what I’m saying? It makes me feel like, ‘Okay, cool. I am not the elephant in the room.’ Because when I started, it wasn’t really a conversation you could bring up,\u201d Boyega said. \u201cYou know how they went through it. It was kind of like, let’s just be silent. It wasn’t a conversation you could bring up. But now to see how blatant it is, to see Ewan McGregor come and support\u2026 for me, [it] fulfills my time where I didn’t get the support.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tBoyega continued: \u201cIt doesn’t make me feel bitter at all. It makes me feel like sometimes you are that guy. And my dad taught me that. Sometimes you’re not the guy to get the blessing and sometimes you are Moses, you know, you lead the people to the mountain, but you see the destination. You don’t get to go in, you get others to go in. And that’s where you get your happiness from. And for me to see other people accepted, and then at the same time to see that the studios now are like, ‘Okay, cool. This is not an elephant in the room conversation. We need to support our Black client.’ It’s fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tWatch the clip from the interview below:<\/p>\n

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