John Boyega - Tumblr Posts
Good morning to John Boyega only.
John is too good for this world
Rinko Kikuchi in the international trailer of Pacific Rim Uprising
BLACK LIVES MATTER. YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. @ noturjacky on IG
Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this but fuck that! - John Boyega
“I’m the only cast member who had their own unique experience of that franchise based on their race. 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.”
JOHN BOYEGA for British GQ (October 2020)
i know i post a lot about racism and other fetishy/orientalist themes in Star Wars media, past and present, but in light of John Boyega's most recent interview, as well as previous statements from Kellie Marie Tran, i believe that now is the time, now more than ever, to hold creators, writers, and directors accountable for this:
and this:
and one of the best ways you can do this, especially if you are not a fan of colour, is to boost the voices of people of colour who are speaking out against this. listen. learn. provide space and treat others with dignity. stop praising creators for being inclusive when they only give crumbs of diversity and fall short of true inclusivity and proper representation. use your platform to elevate voices of colour instead of drowning out the cries, even if your own cries are well intentioned
sometimes the hardest part about being an ally is knowing when to be quiet
I ain’t my father.
John Boyega as Jake Pentecost in Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Ahahahhahahahaha, how did I only just find this?
God how beautiful is John Boyega in these shots?! Wish they hadn’t fucked his storyline up.
Rey looks at him, crushed. With quiet resignation, Rey watches Finn return to the aliens and all three head off. He gets to the front door and walks through it. Rey is heartsick.
Daily (sort of) Portraits from last month!
Over on my sketch blog I’ve been posting these - go check it out if you want to see them as they happen
Behind the scenes of The Hug
The Force brought me here. It brought me to Rey and Poe.