John Boyega says in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter that a Disney executive reached out to him following his September GQ interview in which he criticized the studio for its treatment of Poc characters in the most recent “Star Wars” trilogy.
Boyega starred in three “Star Wars” films as Finn, while Kelly Marie Tran debuted as Rose Tico in “The Last Jedi.” Both characters had been largely sidelined from the main story by the third film in the series, “The Rise of Skywalker.”“It’s so difficult to manoeuver,” Boyega told GQ earlier this year.
“You get yourself involved in projects and you’re not necessarily going to like everything.
[But] 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.
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