‘Star Wars’ & Disney Call John Boyega A “Hero” For Powerful Black Lives Matter Speech In UK
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deadline.comBy Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic John Boyega may no longer be part of the Star Wars galaxy after last year’s The Rise of Skywalker, but the passionately outspoken actor is still very much a part of the Disney family.
Just hours after giving a powerful speech on the death of George Floyd, racism and police violence at a Black Lives Matter march in London that the Detroit star worried may end his career, Boyega was given the full backing of the George Lucas created franchise and its House of Mouse corporate parents.
In a tweet that just went out on the official Star Wars feed, the Kathleen Kennedy-run Lucasfilm calls the man who played Finn for three films a “hero.” Stating that “LucasFilm stands with John Boyega, the
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