Star Wars' John Boyega dropped over half his bank account to meet with JJ Abrams

Actor John Boyega revealed he was down to his last few dollars when the opportunity of a lifetime came knocking for his role in Star Wars . Speaking at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, the actor told fans he had only about $60 in his bank account when director J.J.

Abrams called to meet about Star Wars. “I had been auditioning for so long, so I felt like he kind of took away my dignity a little bit,” Boyega said. “I decided to pretend as if I was busy, you know, when you just pretend that you’re busy.



‘I got other stuff to do, J.J.’” Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet risk run in with her ex Travis Scott at Coachella Inside Kevin Costner’s nearly $200 million property in Carpinteria “‘He goes, ‘Where are you?’ And I said, ‘I’m at this art show in Greenwich , mate.

I’m very, very busy. Where are you?’ He goes, ‘Well, I’m in Mayfair and [at a] restaurant. Need to talk to you now.

And we’ll talk about something important.’ And I go, ‘Okay, okay, I’m gonna be right there.’” At the time, Boyega said: “I had £45 in my account.

It took £33 and 83p to get to J.J. Do the math.

” “So I go in. Each step I took, I was nervous,” he said. “You know, J.

J. is a phenomenal, nice guy, and if he was to tell me I didn’t get the part, he would still feed me.” “J.

J. just said, ‘Thank you so much for coming back. I know we’ve kind of [strained] you with this amount of auditions,’” Boyega recalled.

“At that time, I took it upon myself to try and get another audition and go like, ‘J.J., please.

Look, I can audition again. I can do British, Scottish, Nigerian, whatever.’ And he goes, ‘You’re [in Star Wars ].

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” Boyega went on to star in three Star Wars films , all major box office hits. Back in 2020, he criticized how Disney handled diversity. “What I would say to Disney is do not bring out a Black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side.

It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up,” he told GQ. “You guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver .

But when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know f--- all...

They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley.”.