The British-born actor had frank comments for the House of Mouse that social media users cheered.
actor John Boyega blew up Wednesday as he called out Disney, the owner of the storied space opera, for treating him and other actors of color differently than the franchise’s white starlets, and his comments resonated with social media users who applauded Boyega for speaking truth to power.... [+]“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.
“Everybody knows” that the nuanced character development went to Ridley and Driver, Boyega claimed, adding “I’m not exposing anything.” “That was the bravest interview I’ve seen in a very long time,” Matthew Cherry, the Black Academy Award-winning director ofColombian-American actress Rachel Zegler, set to appear as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming remake ofculture critic Kayleigh Donaldson, when Disney has “so wholly weaponized concepts of fandom, identity, and cultural heft, it's genuinely radical and important for John Boyega to call out the obvious disparities.
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