Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn “Small Axe,” Steve McQueen’s new Amazon anthology series about the Black experience in the U.K., John Boyega stars in the third installment — “Red, White and Blue” — as Leroy Logan, a real-life police officer in 1980s London.“He’s a scientist, a father, a community man and a husband who decides to join the police force in order to motivate change,” Boyega, 28, says on this week’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket” from his home in London. “This is essentially a character study into a man who goes through a system that wasn’t ready for him.
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