'Star Wars' Actor John Boyega Calls Franchise 'So White'
Arts And Entertainment,Entertainment,Star Wars
John Boyega, who played Finn in the latest "Star Wars" trilogy, criticized the franchise for being too "white" in a new documentary about black actors in Hollywood. "Lemme tell ya, ‘Star Wars’ always had the vibe of being in the most whitest, elite space. It’s a franchise that’s so white that a black person existing in [it] was something," Boyega said in the AppleTV+ documentary "Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood." "You can always tell it’s something when some ‘Star Wars’ fans try to say,...
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