John Boyega Says Regardless of His Expertise, He’s Nonetheless “In Love” With the STAR WARS Franchise — GeekTyrant

For higher or for worse, actor John Boyega will eternally be linked to the Star Wars franchise. He starred within the ultimate three chapters within the Skywalker Saga, together with The Drive Awakens, The Final Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker. Whereas these movies weren’t fan-favorites, they had been additionally not extremely regarded by Boyega himself, however he was a fan of the franchise lengthy earlier than these movies, and he continues to be.

In a latest interview with Complete Movie journal (by way of GamesRadar), Boyega defined that regardless of his emotions on these final movies, he is nonetheless a “huge, huge” fan of Star Wars.

“I used to be the individual on set correcting stuff,” he laughs. “Just like the flying jet troopers that we had in The Rise of Skywalker. Poe had been saying, ‘They fly now’ and I assumed they’d seen the flying jet troopers from [animated TV series] The Clone Wars. I play the video games on Battlefront. I’ve a strong relationship with the entire Star Wars stuff.”

He provides of his love for the franchise:

“My first interplay with Star Wars was a Darth Maul determine. I’m a ’90s child so I got here throughout the prequels. I used to be like, ‘Bloody hell, man.’ I didn’t know what it was however I knew it seemed cool and there have been spaceships and glowsticks that would slash your wrist off. Then I went again to the previous Star Wars after. OK, I’m responsible – I did say that the consequences are shit after I was youthful! I didn’t know any higher. Then I grew into maturity and was in love with it. I nonetheless am in love with it. I bloody like it. Nevertheless it’s virtually nicer not having to be in it, and never having to cope with that. It’s bizarre, you simply return to being a fan once more and see your self within the video games.” 

He additionally shared that he watches all the Disney Plus Star Wars reveals, and “loves” all of them. It’s too dangerous that after he acquired to be part of the franchise, it didn’t end up nicely for him as an actor, or a fan.

Boyega was most just lately seen within the 2022 drama, The Lady King, and he’s presently engaged on a number of initiatives, together with the extremely anticipated sequel, Assault the Block 2.