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Star Wars actor John Boyega says the franchise is 'so white that a Black person existing in [it] was something'

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John Boyega opens up on Star Wars' predominance of white heroes.

The actor spoke in an interview for a new Apple TV+ documentary about Black men in Hollywood .

Boyega has often discussed how he felt about Finn ’s role in the sequel trilogy being unsupported and sidelined in the face of culture-war commentary.

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