"I'm a Michael Bay fanatic." — John Boyega

Finn is just a stormtrooper, and stormtroopers are no longer clones, so they are bred from birth to fight. He's not too sure about it, so he escapes and meets Rey and Poe and BB8, and their stories kind of mesh together, and they go on a major adventure.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

My earliest vivid memory would be my Nigerian mother. She would wrap me on her back. I remember being on her back a lot. It felt like a ride, like I was riding a dinosaur; going everywhere and seeing everything.

Hollywood has given me a great, warm hug.

People of color and women are increasingly being shown on-screen. For things to be whitewashed just doesn't make sense.

I'm a comic reader and a manga fan.

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I'm a Michael Bay fanatic.