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“Being an actor, living within that privilege and having the opportunity to go onto other projects and greenlight things, you can use a lot of that for the impactful stuff. “Everybody’s different and the fight requires all different types of people, all different types of strategies,” says Boyega. But Logan believes he can, as one of very few officers of color, remake the system from the inside, despite regular abuse.įor an actor recoiling from his experience within the belly of blockbuster-making Hollywood, Red White and Blue has both powerful parallels and telling distinctions about navigating a system that can be inhospitable to people of color. Logan’s decision to join the police is confounding to his father (Steve Toussaint), who was beaten by racist police officers. There’s something dangerous and uncensored and untethered and sexy about him. It reminds me of Jack Nicholson in the ’70s where you wanted to hear that voice. “There’s something about him right now that’s vital,” says McQueen. Red, White and Blue puts Boyega front and center and wrestles with many of the social issues - race, change, belonging - that he is grappling with, too. It’s almost certainly Boyega’s best performance yet - a reintroduction, in a way, to a young actor who has shown flashes of his potential but who to most remains identifiable as a central Star Wars character who seemed to drift to the sidelines of the space saga. In the true story, Boyega plays Leroy Logan, an aspiring research scientist who gives up the lab to join the overwhelmingly white London police force in the 1980s.
#The flash shush series#
The five-film series is playing on the BBC in the UK and on Amazon Prime in the US Red, White and Blue will debut Dec. No one’s doing that, especially not my generation.”īoyega stars in Steve McQueen’s Red White and Blue, the third film in the director’s extraordinary anthology of Black life in London from the ’60s through the ’80s.
Be human, rather than having to get into a space where you’re successful but then you have to lose your identity. “Sometimes you get angry, sometimes I’m wrong, sometimes I’m right. “People need to go up there and reflect what’s real,” says Boyega, speaking by video conference in an interview from London.
He won’t, he says, “fashion my career to be like a politician” or “take the money and shush.”
#The flash shush free#
In a year riven with resistance, Boyega has seemed suited to the moment - an unapologetically candid actor breaking free of PR-controlled Hollywood constraints.
#The flash shush driver#
He said on Twitter, “dismissively trading out one’s culture this way is not something I can condone.”Īnd in a GQ interview in September, Boyega criticized the makers of Star Wars for their uncertain handling of his character, Finn, and for giving “all the nuance” to characters played by Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley: “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. In September, Boyega severed ties with the London cosmetics brand Jo Malone after the company reshot, with a different brand ambassador, a video he had made that touched on his childhood neighborhood and Nigerian heritage. “Black lives have always mattered,” Boyega told demonstrators.
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