Thursday, December 5, 2019

Entertainment is great chance to open people’s eyes, says Star Wars actor

The Star Wars actor John Boyega says he has met Americans who are not aware there are black people living in London, and believes the under-representation of the black British experience in popular culture fuels such ignorance.

Boyega made the comments in a Radio Times interview where he discussed his future plans to create work about black life in Britain, partly as a result of having to explain to Americans that black Londoners exist while promoting his 2011 breakthrough film Attack the Block.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/33SUIeC

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