{"id":56441,"date":"2022-08-25T22:41:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T22:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-boyega-responds-to-denzel-washington-comparisons\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T22:41:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T22:41:59","slug":"john-boyega-responds-to-denzel-washington-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-boyega-responds-to-denzel-washington-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"John Boyega responds to Denzel Washington comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>John Boyega is aware of the comparisons.  He had to be \u2013 the actor is active on social media, and as his <em>breaking<\/em> director Abi Damaris Corbin points out, it was even trending on Twitter at one point: &#8220;John is Denzel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As in the 30-year-old <em>Star Wars<\/em> alum&#8217;s simmering performance in the dramatic true-life thriller <em>breaking <\/em>is reminding people of Oscar-winning living legend Denzel Washington (particularly Washington&#8217;s performance in the similarly themed 2002 movie <em>John Q<\/em>).  Boyega stars as Brian Brown Easley, a former Marine who took bank tellers hostage and threatened to blow up the building due to frustrations over withheld veterans disability payments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not involved in that conversation, man,&#8221; Boyega told Yahoo Entertainment when asked what he thinks of having his work called Denzellian.  &#8220;If that&#8217;s what they see then that&#8217;s all a blessing. Denzel is one of the best actors in the industry. And I just started out. So for me, I haven&#8217;t got the time or the stripes to be able to even involve myself in such a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will definitely thank God for such an opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 460px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader\" style=\"padding-bottom:48%;\"><noscript><img alt=\"BREAKING, (aka 892), John Boyega, 2022. \u00a9 Bleecker Street Media \/Courtesy Everett Collection\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/X8XCSkNa8MYAj_4TPVMHPw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQ2MA--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-08\/107e8240-24aa-11ed-bfff-66a71901a5ca\" class=\"caas-img\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">John Boyegain <em>breaking<\/em>.  \u00a9 Bleecker Street Media \/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>His co-star Nicole Beharie (<em>Miss Juneteenth<\/em>) was impressed by what she saw on set: &#8220;On day one, I was blown away by the work that John did and all the energy,&#8221; she says.  &#8220;He made my job easier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boyega was an easy choice for Corbin and her co-writer\/executive producer Kwame Kwei-Armah.  &#8220;It&#8217;s really easy to pat oneself on the back and say, &#8216;Yeah, yeah, we knew it was John and John was gonna be brilliant,&#8217; but I didn&#8217;t know he was gonna be this good,&#8221; says Kwei-Armah.<\/p>\n<p>Corbin first discovered the Easley&#8217;s story in Aaron Gell&#8217;s 2018 <em>Task &#038; Purpose<\/em> article &#8220;They Didn&#8217;t Have to Kill Him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was overtaken by it, it pierced my soul,&#8221; she says.  &#8220;My dad&#8217;s a veteran, so I was able to understand what he went through with the [Department of] Veteran&#8217;s Affairs so much better through Brian&#8217;s eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>breaking <\/em>arrives just weeks after President Joe Biden signed the PACT Act, designed to improve health care access for veterans who were exposed to toxic substances and burn pits during military service.  But not before the act became a hot-button issue, with Republicans accused of playing politics with the act after initially voting against it.  Dozens of veterans camped outside the Capitol until it was finally passed, with former <em>Daily Show<\/em> host Jon Stewart becoming their most vocal proponent.<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"link caas-button collapse-button\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-ylk=\"elm:readmore;slk:Story continues\">Story continues<\/button><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The timing is amazing,&#8221; says Beharie.  &#8220;And I really hope it has an effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It should have an effect and definitely a conversation,&#8221; adds Boyega.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s deeply personal for Corbin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My dad&#8217;s been waiting in those same lines for a long time, the same lines that veterans were in front of the White House,&#8221; she says.  &#8220;Sitting there with their candles, just praying that there&#8217;ll be a breakthrough, that there&#8217;ll be an opening, that the bureaucracy will get out of the way and that the hearts of the matter and the words will match the actions. I &#8216;m hopeful that watching our movie will allow people to hear those pleas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>-Video produced by Kyle Moss and edited by Jimmie Rhee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>breaking <\/em><\/strong><strong>opens in theaters Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Watch the trailer:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boyega is aware of the comparisons. He had to be \u2013 the actor is active on social media, and as his breaking director Abi Damaris Corbin points out, it was even trending on Twitter at one point: &#8220;John is Denzel.&#8221; As in the 30-year-old Star Wars alum&#8217;s simmering performance in the dramatic true-life thriller &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-boyega-responds-to-denzel-washington-comparisons\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Boyega responds to Denzel Washington comparisons<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34086,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-boyega-rejects-marvel-movies-i-want-fresh-ideas\/","url_meta":{"origin":56441,"position":0},"title":"John Boyega Rejects Marvel Movies: I Want &#8216;Fresh Ideas&#8217;","date":"August 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It's hard to go two or three months without an internet rumor claiming John Boyega is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 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