John Boyega Rules Out 'Star Wars' Return Following Racist Backlash | SiriusXM

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John Boyega Rules Out 'Star Wars' Return Following Racist Backlash | SiriusXM


John Boyega and John Fugelsang discuss being a Black actor in the ‘Star Wars’ film & television universe, experiencing racist backlash from fans, and whether Boyega wants to reprise his role.

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  1. There was potential to tell a deep and sophisticated story centering around the psychosocial anguish of his character turning away from The Order, but they put him in a water suit to slip around

  2. Actions have consequences.
    I wonder how many poor minority white kids got a beating after his delusional tirade.
    And all because of the colour of their skin?
    It's just awful !

  3. Finn as a character from Force Awakens trailer to Rise of Skywalker arguably has one of the most disappointing story arcs in recent movie history. I was one of those people who got pumped thinking we were getting a black stormtrooper turned Jedi, and instead we got comic relief.

  4. John Boyega had the last laugh, the decision not make him the lead Jedi in the movie and make him the buffoon comic relief, turned black audiences against the franchise and Star Wars doesn’t have a broad enough audience to even make movies any more. You reap what you sow.

  5. You can tell that he's obsessed about racism. He see racism everywhere. The worst part about that way of thinking : It's makes you a racist. It's a horrible way to live.

  6. They (media) do this deliberately for whatever reason

    When the Force Awakens trailer dropped, they included a deliberate close up shot of a stormtrooper taking off their helmet and a highly phenotypical nigerian-british face emerging…not what the audience expected, it was likely done for marketing purposes in order to adversie the film through controversy as well as capture a more global audience.
    Given what we'd seen about the clones previously (maori actor, who didn't receive noticeable backlash btw) it was definitely unexpected from what we thought we knew about stormtroopers.

    A minority of Star wars fans were concerned the story was being set up for a romance between a dark african man and an exceptionally gifted white woman (which is an insufferable and overdone media trope at this point) and they voiced that disliking.

    Trust Boyega and his colleagues to cherry pick that and project some delusions of racial injustice to the world…star wars IS multicultural and has been since the 70's, star wars fans are like the original fans of diversity and tolerance.

  7. I'm a massive Star Wars fan, a Finn fan, and of John Boyega who plays him. Great actor, playing a great character, and I feel everything that was said. Disney did not do his character justice and if it were me, Finn would have become a Jedi in the prequels and developed a better relationship with Rey. That was what was teased from the beginning and Disney dropped the ball by hiring different directors and writers to make one cohesive story. Bad play by them. I hear they're trying to do a Rey film or series, and if they do, that's Disney's chance to make it up to everyone, right their wrongs, and make Finn a real Jedi in Rey's new order. That's just what I think as a multiple decade long fan of Star Wars.