You know, we get to see like what what is it about this dude that made him so special.” Finn Plans in Flux Through Sequel Trilogy But you know, who knows if maybe down the line, they have like a younger actor or whatever, and they try to expand on Finn. But you know, you’re just using it to defend and you know, you defend your friend, you must have something in you. When Han was holding it briefly, what did he do? He held it to like get the locks off or something. This works.”īoyega: “Yeah, yeah… last time I checked, you can’t even just swing that you know a certain type of way. And while he most likely won't return to the role, he's curious to see if this plot point is revisited with a younger actor down the road:
He compared it to "when Han (Solo) was holding it briefly" and had so much difficulty working the lightsaber, noting that Finn must have had something in him to be able to use it. And I thought, obviously, you know, you get the lightsaber, you start swinging, and defending, and I’m like, ’Nah…’” So it was interesting you know that when those talks were coming in the first stage. "So that’s where you get the moment between Finn and Jannah, and Jannah asks him, ‘How do you know?’ And he just says, ‘It’s a feeling.’ He just had to get something in there that told you why there was a Stormtrooper who held his own long enough against a Sith… or Sith wannabe to a certain extent, you know, Kylo. He looked back to the moment between Finn and Jannah, where he admitted that he had to figure out a way to just make it work with the story: But obviously with the different creative differences in the middle and then getting to the third, it’s kind of like he still wanted to you know just force it in there, just squeeze it in there." And JJ, I mean JJ really wanted– Force Awakens is the movie that JJ directed, he was kind of pinpoint plotting a trajectory. So I think with VIII going in another direction, when you’re bringing someone to the third, they have to kind of like appreciate what’s happened in VIII and then still try and make a narrative of it. Horowitz: “This is my last thing, because we haven’t spoken since Star Wars, how was the Force-sensitive stuff explained to you? Like was that only brought up when Episode XI came around, or like was it ever discussed in the previous films that Finn would be Force-sensitive?"īoyega: “It was a discussion from VII that was kind of brewing, because you didn’t know which way it was gonna go, right? And then VIII went in another direction. Abrams wanted Finn to be Force-sensitive in that movie, but after things changed in Episode VIII, Abrams still "wanted to.just force it in there" before the end when he returned for Episode IX:
When asked how the Force-sensitive stuff was presented to him, he wasn't sure initially which direction things were taking in Episode VII before everything changed in the following movies.Īccording to him, director J.J. Speaking with MTV's Josh Horowitz, Star Wars actor John Boyega looked back at Finn's Jedi moment in Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens. John Boyega on JJ Abrams' Forced Jedi Twist Lucasfilm And according to the actor, this is something that he felt didn't come naturally in the story behind Episode VII. And while things really took a turn for the worse in his last two Star Wars movies, there are even contentions Boyega has with 2015's Episode VII: The Force Awakens, which is almost unanimously seen as the best movie of Lucasfilm's final trilogy.įans will remember that Boyega's first movie actually ended with the tease that Finn may have gone down the Jedi route, with a moment where he wielded Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber in a short duel with Adam Driver's Kylo Ren. One of his biggest points of contention is the lack of meaningful representation across the trilogy, even comparing it to recent Marvel projects that have done a much better job on that front on Disney+ and in theaters.
John Boyega has made it no secret that his experience working on the sequel trilogy with Star Wars wasn't a great one, as he played the Stormtrooper-turned-Resistance fighter Finn.Īlthough he keeps up with everything that Lucasfilm delivered post- The Rise of Skywalker, most recently sharing his thoughts on Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi, he regularly looks back on his time with Lucasfilm without the fondest of memories.