Future Black History Month: John Boyega's Starry Start
Fuse is once again celebrating an extended Black History Month by looking at a variety of rising forces who are creating Future Black History before our eyes. Today we commemorate John Boyega, the 24-year-old English actor who serves as one third of the tripod of young actors holding up the new Star Wars trilogy. “I’m having so much fun, because you know what?" he said to The Verge on his December 2015 press tour for Episode VII: The Force Awakens. "They cast a Star Wars fan in a Star Wars movie. Biiiiiig mistake!”
Born to Nigerian parents in South London, Boyega broke out in 2011's alien invasion indie Attack the Block. As Finn and Rey, he and Daisy Ridley were the newbies of the Force Awakens bunch; the film earning $2.07 billion and becoming the No. 3 top-grossing movie of all time internationally—plus the No. 1 in American history—made them both household names in a blink. "Although this franchise is such a massive thing," he told British Vogue, "I've tried my best to approach it as I approach any other job: do the best I can and just focus on the work."
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