John Boyega continues to tell the truth about his (mis)treatment by those behind the Star Wars sequels in a recent GQ interview:
He's letting it all out, and its wonderful. Boyega has found his voice about the well-known (but ignored by many) racial tokenism / propaganda he suffered in Disney's Star Wars sequels. As I've said before, Boyega was the clear victim of race propaganda in film at the hands of Hollywood white liberals. In film business history, black makes were/ are often marginalized and/or clowns when they--unlike any other character (in what is not a comedy in this case) is not to be taken seriously, where he's not comedy relief, yet he stumbles about, usually setting himself up to be something, but trips his way into an often disregarded, disrespected position (except his one TFA deed--thanks to being in the stereotyped role as a sanitation worker), regularly misspeaks, and the chief character to have others show him up for being a fool. Again and again, Finn is the black clown, not--in what used to be Star Wars character tradition--to be one of the heroic trinity to truly break all bonds of any old self to be a hero--which for TPM Obi-Wan/Anakin/Padme, or ANH Luke/Han/Leia--happened several times over the course of their respective debut films.
This does not happen to Finn, as his one "moment" is a lightsaber fight where he's so easily outclassed, and ripped into unconsciousness, that it was clear he was there just to be the anger motivator for Rey to fight Ren, but he leaves TFA not truly joining the ranks of a growing hero as seen with the hero trinity of the previous trilogies' debut stories. In TLJ, Finn remains a black clown, as he's shocked into submission by Rose--who subsequently leads him by the nose throughout the entire casino disaster, removing any chance for the Finn character to grow into any sort of character of true self-respect self-determination (like Luke in ESB, or Anakin and/or Padme in AOTC). Even his suicide run in TLJ is--once again--taken away by Rose--he cannot even attempt to die a hero.
He's not the decision maker. He's not the true creator--or leader of missions, and as a bone tossed his way (I doubt anyone will get the emphasis on that), he has a pointless fight with Phasma which...no one was looking forward to, since the latter was completely undeveloped in TFA, and Finn as a sci-fi fighting hero does not exist. There's no build-up in a fight between an action figure design who happens to be talking on screen, and a walking racial stereotype.
The dominance in is in the form of runaway sanitation worker/stormtrooper Finn so incompetent, that he cannot escape one calamity after another without the help of a series of non-black characters all having a position and/or ability superior to his own. Adding insult to injury, one of his kind rescuers (Poe) gives this runaway his new name. I'm not pretending that the subtext of that entire relationship has no racial stereotyping influence, as TFA was not making any kind of commentary on slavery. This was about the perception of the black male lead.
Boyega adds:
Scared and sweating--like any black male stereotype from Old Hollywood, only its not old because its still happening.
White Hollywood liberals constantly sell themselves as the most progressive, open-minded collective on earth, yet you're never going to see a black character they created--a black male in particular (in film history's biggest franchise) treated in the same way as whites, not in being a full on black male with self-respect, and self-determination to add his actions to the story in undeniably significant ways as part of his steady growth.
GQ:
Boyega also recalls the backlash from those with racist, kneejerk reactions to TFA's trailer, when a Stormtrooper removed his helmet to reveal a black face, death threats he received for being in that role, and more, but that's to be expected--despite fantasy film/TV fans often chest-pumping that their group is more liberal/open-minded than other fans and/or social groups, that is and always has been a lie. For black actors / characters in White Liberal Hollywood, they face a double edged-sword with both sides cutting black people no matter what direction they turn to, with Disney/Lucasfilm's conscious mistreatment of Boyega and his Finn character mirroring the open-faced marginalization / ignorance / tokenism from Supergirl's showrunners and resentment from the self-proclaimed most open-minded/woke viewers toward Brooks' James Olsen character (specifically, the torrential flood of anti-Brooks arguments that he was "wrong" to be cast as Olsen, especially as a romantic interest for the white heroine) who was quickly and unceremoniously booted from that series this past season.
Hopefully, Boyega's life and career leaves this terrible chapter in his past, and he's able to go wherever his talent and desire takes him, but it was incredibly important that he hammer the truth into the headstone of Disney's Star Wars sequels, leaving that as a marker that will never be removed or rewritten by producers who repeatedly championed their socially progressive handling of the sequels...except in the case of the one, black male / so-called "main" character..
He's letting it all out, and its wonderful. Boyega has found his voice about the well-known (but ignored by many) racial tokenism / propaganda he suffered in Disney's Star Wars sequels. As I've said before, Boyega was the clear victim of race propaganda in film at the hands of Hollywood white liberals. In film business history, black makes were/ are often marginalized and/or clowns when they--unlike any other character (in what is not a comedy in this case) is not to be taken seriously, where he's not comedy relief, yet he stumbles about, usually setting himself up to be something, but trips his way into an often disregarded, disrespected position (except his one TFA deed--thanks to being in the stereotyped role as a sanitation worker), regularly misspeaks, and the chief character to have others show him up for being a fool. Again and again, Finn is the black clown, not--in what used to be Star Wars character tradition--to be one of the heroic trinity to truly break all bonds of any old self to be a hero--which for TPM Obi-Wan/Anakin/Padme, or ANH Luke/Han/Leia--happened several times over the course of their respective debut films.
This does not happen to Finn, as his one "moment" is a lightsaber fight where he's so easily outclassed, and ripped into unconsciousness, that it was clear he was there just to be the anger motivator for Rey to fight Ren, but he leaves TFA not truly joining the ranks of a growing hero as seen with the hero trinity of the previous trilogies' debut stories. In TLJ, Finn remains a black clown, as he's shocked into submission by Rose--who subsequently leads him by the nose throughout the entire casino disaster, removing any chance for the Finn character to grow into any sort of character of true self-respect self-determination (like Luke in ESB, or Anakin and/or Padme in AOTC). Even his suicide run in TLJ is--once again--taken away by Rose--he cannot even attempt to die a hero.
He's not the decision maker. He's not the true creator--or leader of missions, and as a bone tossed his way (I doubt anyone will get the emphasis on that), he has a pointless fight with Phasma which...no one was looking forward to, since the latter was completely undeveloped in TFA, and Finn as a sci-fi fighting hero does not exist. There's no build-up in a fight between an action figure design who happens to be talking on screen, and a walking racial stereotype.
The dominance in is in the form of runaway sanitation worker/stormtrooper Finn so incompetent, that he cannot escape one calamity after another without the help of a series of non-black characters all having a position and/or ability superior to his own. Adding insult to injury, one of his kind rescuers (Poe) gives this runaway his new name. I'm not pretending that the subtext of that entire relationship has no racial stereotyping influence, as TFA was not making any kind of commentary on slavery. This was about the perception of the black male lead.
Boyega adds:
Scared and sweating--like any black male stereotype from Old Hollywood, only its not old because its still happening.
White Hollywood liberals constantly sell themselves as the most progressive, open-minded collective on earth, yet you're never going to see a black character they created--a black male in particular (in film history's biggest franchise) treated in the same way as whites, not in being a full on black male with self-respect, and self-determination to add his actions to the story in undeniably significant ways as part of his steady growth.
GQ:
Boyega also recalls the backlash from those with racist, kneejerk reactions to TFA's trailer, when a Stormtrooper removed his helmet to reveal a black face, death threats he received for being in that role, and more, but that's to be expected--despite fantasy film/TV fans often chest-pumping that their group is more liberal/open-minded than other fans and/or social groups, that is and always has been a lie. For black actors / characters in White Liberal Hollywood, they face a double edged-sword with both sides cutting black people no matter what direction they turn to, with Disney/Lucasfilm's conscious mistreatment of Boyega and his Finn character mirroring the open-faced marginalization / ignorance / tokenism from Supergirl's showrunners and resentment from the self-proclaimed most open-minded/woke viewers toward Brooks' James Olsen character (specifically, the torrential flood of anti-Brooks arguments that he was "wrong" to be cast as Olsen, especially as a romantic interest for the white heroine) who was quickly and unceremoniously booted from that series this past season.
Hopefully, Boyega's life and career leaves this terrible chapter in his past, and he's able to go wherever his talent and desire takes him, but it was incredibly important that he hammer the truth into the headstone of Disney's Star Wars sequels, leaving that as a marker that will never be removed or rewritten by producers who repeatedly championed their socially progressive handling of the sequels...except in the case of the one, black male / so-called "main" character..
, possibly casting him in self-serving (for the entertainment business) film, or they will simply skip over his name for consideration of roles--a punishment for Boyega shining a light on the towering BS that is the idea of white liberal Hollywood ever being an ally (or understanding) of black people--males in particular.
