John Boyega photographed by Chad Griffith for Backstage
[Boyega is] a comic book and video game
aficionado—currently playing Star Wars Battlefront during brief breaks
from press junkets—and longtime film buff. (“A single-disc DVD would
disgust me,” he says of his obsession with the behind-the-scenes aspects
of filmmaking. “Why would you get a movie and not show me how it was
done?”)
“I tried to make Adam Driver just happy, you know, because I think when he’s on set as Kylo Ren, the dark side of the force likes to just capture him sometimes and I feel like my hug just balances Adam out. It’s a medical thing that we have sorted out. I get paid to do it.”
— John Boyegaexplains why he gave Adam Driver lots of hugs on the set of The Last Jedi.
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