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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8706153" data-attributes="member: 7023840">For reference, the Boyega interview is here:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/john-boyega-interview-2020[/URL]Here’s a quote-I’m the only cast member who had their own unique experience of that franchise based on their race,” he says, holding my gaze. “Let’s just leave it like that. It makes you angry with a process like that. It makes you much more militant; it changes you. Because you realise, ‘I got given this opportunity but I’m in an industry that wasn’t even ready for me.’ Nobody else in the cast had people saying they were going to boycott the movie because [they were in it]. Nobody else had the uproar and death threats sent to their Instagram DMs and social media, saying, ‘Black this and black that and you shouldn’t be a Stormtrooper.’ Nobody else had that experience. But yet people are surprised that I’m this way. That’s my frustration. Now, in fairness he also talks about how it was frustrating to see his character (like other POC characters in tent-pole movies) get marginalized, but I fail to see how anyone can read that interview and come away thinking, “Hey, all those people complaining about his casting that made his life miserable? They totally had a point!”</blockquote>