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John Boyega

John Boyega on Star Wars,Detroit, and Staying Sane with the Help of Robert Downey Jr.

(로다쥬와의 일화 썰. 할리우드에서 살아남는법 뭐 이런거 조언해줬다는 일화)

Abrams had loved Boyega since he saw him in another film that involved naturalistic interactions with extra-terrestrials: Joe Cornish's Attack the Block, in which Boyega plays a teenager defending a South London housing project from space invaders—E.T. but with an Alien-like alien and Elliott beating the shit out of him with a bat instead of feeding him Reese's Pieces.

(JJ가 보예가를 오래전부터 맘에 들어했다는 이야기)

And then Abrams asked him to be “the star of Star Wars.” This is the moment when the actor jumps up and down and gives his new boss a hug. “The job isn't just to be an actor in a movie when you're doing something like Star Wars,” Abrams told Boyega, prudently warning him about the dream-slash-nightmare that would unfold over the coming decades. “It's a significant lifetime commitment to this thing.” Did Boyega understand that this would be a load he would carry for as long as he walked this earth? “Don't get drunk on the fun of the moment.” Had Abrams mentioned that Boyega would never, ever escape Star Wars? “It could be an enormous burden.”

(스타워즈에 캐스팅 된 소식을 직접 JJ에게 전해듣고 난리부르스를 친 썰)

“There are no black people on Game of Thrones,” Boyega says. (To be fair, there are, like, three.) “You don't see one black person in Lord of the Rings.” (That is true.) And though Star Wars had featured a few black characters—Billy Dee Williams as a smuggler, Samuel L. Jackson as a peripheral Jedi—they were less represented in the galaxy than Ewoks.

(스타워즈 영화에 등장하는 흑인의 숫자가 Ewok보다 적다는...)

But, yeah, Star Wars is bigger than Boyega. So are Hollywood and fame. There's racism in film, and in the world, and in Peckham. And obviously nobody in Hollywood is bigger than Ford or Robert Downey Jr. But Boyega is at peace with his place in a much larger system—it's probably not a coincidence that he's religious. This sense of smallness, this humility, brings him the kind of joy that spurs spontaneous red-carpet dancing and allows him to hold the weight of the galaxy on his shoulders.

** 더 자세하고 많은 내용은 http://www.gq.com/story/john-boyega-star-wars-detroit-and-robert-downey-jr

** 보예가의 새 영화 Detroit는 8월 4일 북미 개봉 예정