thanks for admitting you didnāt read past the headline, idiot.
But he is also talking about other people of colour in the cast ā Naomi Ackie and Kelly Marie Tran and even Oscar Isaac (āa brother from Guatemalaā) ā who he feels suffered the same treatment; he is acknowledging that some people will say heās ācrazyā or āmaking it upā, but the reordered character hierarchy of The Last Jedi was particularly hard to take.
āLike, you guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver,ā he says. āYou knew what to do with these other people, but when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know fuck all. So what do you want me to say? What they want you to say is, āI enjoyed being a part of it. It was a great experience...ā Nah, nah, nah. Iāll take that deal when itās a great experience. They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Letās be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. Iām not exposing anything.ā
but what he was SPECIFICALLY talking about that was unique to him and his being Black was the threats of boycotts just because he was Black and in the film:
āIām the only cast member who had their own unique experience of that franchise based on their race,ā he says, holding my gaze. āLetās 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, āI got given this opportunity but Iām in an industry that wasnāt even ready for me.ā 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, āBlack this and black that and you shouldnāt be a Stormtrooper.ā Nobody else had that experience. But yet people are surprised that Iām this way. Thatās my frustration.ā
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