LEAD ACTOR FOR STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, JOHN BOYEGA

John Boyega is a British actor, best known for playing Moses in his 2011 film debut Attack the Block. John Boyega will play Finn in the upcoming 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

HIS EARLY LIFE

John Boyega was born on the 17th of March 1992 in Peckham, London, to Nigerian parents of the Yoruba tribe. His first role was that of a leopard in a play at his primary school at the age of five. He attended Westminster City School as a teenager. He later took part in various school productions and attended classes at Theatre Peckham. He was a performing arts student at South Thames College in Wandsworth and was active in theatre productions there, including the lead in Othello in 2010. He said,

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.

CAREER

John Boyega trained at the Identity Drama School in Hackney, and appeared in the plays Six Parties at the National Theatre and Category B at the Tricycle Theatre prior to being offered a role in the 2011 film Attack the Block. In September 2011, HBO announced that Boyega had been cast in the boxing drama pilot Da Brick, loosely based on Mike Tyson’s life. Boyega was expected to play Donnie, who is released from a juvenile detention centre on his 18th birthday and begins to examine what it means to be a man. The pilot was written by John Ridley, but was not picked up by HBO. Also in 2011, he acted in the film Junkhearts in which he portrayed a drug dealer who found some guns and tried to sell them.

John Boyega was chosen by Jesus of Screen International, as one of the “UK Stars of Tomorrow 2011″ and appeared alongside only two other actors on the front cover of that magazine in its July 2011 edition.
In March 2012, Boyega was cast in the film adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book Half of a Yellow Sun.
On 29 April 2014, it was confirmed that Boyega had been cast as a lead character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

John Boyega has stated in an interview that he is a fan of Marvel Comics, and that he had hoped to play the Marvel character Black Panther. Other movies he has starred in are Imperial Dreams (2014) and My Murder (2012).

He won a Black Reel Award for Best Actor in 2011 with the movie “Attack the block” at which he said,

I remember my manager telling me, ‘Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first’. Those words were very helpful.

Well, John Boyega is actually my age mate and he is already making this much waves, this is more reason why I am glad to write about him and I pray he flies higher than all black celebrities or should I specifically say ‘Nigerian celebrities abroad’?

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