John Boyega vs. Star Wars: "They take out a black character, sell him as important and then put him aside"

The Black Lives Matter movement has changed the life, and surely the career, of

, the British actor who plays Finn in the latest

trilogy

.

After

in London's Hyde Park on June 3, where he admitted that he would not know if he could continue acting after what he was going to say, until today, the day an interview was published in the magazine

in which he

for not being able to develop the characters played by people who were not white.

"You get involved in projects where you don't have to like everything. What I would say to Disney is not to take a black character, sell it as if it were going to be much more important in the franchise than it is going to be later. be and

. It's not right, and I say it directly, "says the actor, who played Finn, a former First Order stormtrooper who, as it seemed in the previews of episode

of the saga , was going to have a central role in the movies.

Her appearance, after all the criticism for the scarcity of female roles and those played by people who were not white in the previous installments, was the symbol of the beginning of a new era in

, but in successive films her role in history was fading.

For this reason, Boyega wanted to address Disney directly: "You knew what to do with Daisy Ridley (Rey) and with Adam Driver (Kylo Ren); you knew what you had to do with everyone else, but when it came to Kelly Marie Tran (Rose) and me ...

"

"What they want me to say is that I really enjoyed being a part of it, that it was a wonderful experience ... No, no, no ... I will do that when it really is a good experience.

, all the importance to Daisy Ridley. Let's be honest, Daisy knows it, Adam knows it, everyone knows it. I'm not discovering anything ", adds Boyega in

, assuring that in the previous trilogies more care was taken when it came to develop the different characters.

In fact, he also highlighted the fact that he received many attacks for his participation in the films based solely on his skin color: "

. Let's leave it there. Everything makes me very angry. That process makes you much more militant; it changes you. You realize that you have been given an opportunity in an industry that is not prepared for you. They told no other colleague that they were going to boycott production because they were in it. No one. He was the victim of such anger or death threats on social media telling him that blacks this and blacks that and that they should not be

. No, no one else has had this experience, and yet they are surprised that I am how I am. That's my frustration. "

Boyega, who gave a fiery speech in Hyde Park during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, had previously said that his participation in the Star Wars universe was a thing of the past and that it was his duty as a public figure to get involved in these kinds of struggles. social: "I think that, especially as famous people that we are, we have a duty to speak through the filter of professionalism and emotional intelligence, but sometimes what we need is to go crazy and make clear what we have in our heads There are times when we don't have time to play any games. "

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