John Boyega
John Boyega
John Adedayo Adegboyega, known professionally as John Boyega is a British actor best known for playing Finn in the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh film of the Star Wars series. Boyega rose to prominence in his native United Kingdom for his role as Moses in the 2011 sci-fi comedy film Attack the Block...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth17 March 1992
bigger cast force great time
I think 'Star Wars' always has to be bigger and bigger and better every time, and there's a great cast on 'The Force Awakens.' It's ground-breaking.
london love
I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city.
The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it's families.
confident grounded man
I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me.
I'm a comic reader and a manga fan.
children folks grown race talking
We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin.
alien invasion kids petty south
'Attack The Block' is an alien invasion film set in South London. It's about a group of kids who are some petty thugs, who have to find the hero in themselves, when they attack.
somewhere
There's a difference between living somewhere and being part of somewhere.
epic lead people scripts
The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.
goes happen hear normally positive southeast stay stuff tabloids
Normally you hear about Southeast London, and you hear about all the stuff that goes on down there, all the negative things, and the tabloids kind of stay away from all the positive things that happen that I see every day, which kind of outshines the negative.
careers dad formed fully smith unless
Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
primary school secondary since trained
I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.
good
I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.
family fixated specifics watched
My friends and family are not really fixated on the specifics of 'Star Wars.' My parents don't know anything about 'Star Wars.' They've never watched a 'Star Wars' film.