Actor Sterling K. Brown opens up about the double standards he faced on movie sets

[KingsOfKings]

 

[feelosofer]

Yup. Black actors are held up to such a standard.

 

[rabbid]

they're looking for a reason to get you outta here... shout out to john boyega.

 

[Mike Nasty]

I figured this out when I was 12yo

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

they're looking for a reason to get you outta here... shout out to john boyega.

“They” are always looking for a reason

 

[CHICAGO]

they're looking for a reason to get you outta here... shout out to john boyega.

WHAT HAPPENED WITH BOYEGA?



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[Sonic Boom of the South]

He had to figure this out in Hollywood?

 

[Buddy]

His episode on The Pivot is one of their best in a minute. Breh is pretty brilliant and has had an interesting life

 

[pickles]

He needed Hollywood to figure this shyt out?

SMDH.

I don't watch All of Us, but that nikka looks like he is always crying that show.

No comment on the other type of roles he takes.

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

His white counterparts can behave like overgrown children because of their skin complexion protects them from facing real consequences for their behavior.

Realistically, doing that shyt should get the shyt slapped outta them.

 

[Sbp]

Yup. Black actors MEN are held up to such a standard.

Fixed.

 

[jwinfield]

I figured this out when I was 12yo

He had to figure this out in Hollywood?

He needed Hollywood to figure this shyt out?

SMDH.

I don't watch All of Us, but that nikka looks like he is always crying that show.

No comment on the other type of roles he takes.

He doesn't say that he just found this out, or that he needed to be in Hollywood to figure it out. Even at the end he says that he already felt that people were looking for a reason and Hollywood just elevated the shyt.

 

[jwinfield]

WHAT HAPPENED WITH BOYEGA?



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Gave this passioned speech during the George Floyd protests that of course got backlash.



Also out against Disney/Star Wars treatment of his character,.

John Boyega: 'I’m the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race'

In his first interview since finishing Star Wars and that unguarded address from a Hyde Park stage, he explains how both platforms inspired him to make a stand, but for very different reasons.

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But] what I would say to Disney is do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up.” He is talking about himself here – about the character of Finn, the former Stormtrooper who wielded a lightsaber in the first film before being somewhat nudged to the periphery. But he is also talking about other people of colour in the cast – Naomi Ackie and Kelly Marie Tran and even Oscar Isaac (“a brother from Guatemala”) – who he feels suffered the same treatment; he is acknowledging that some people will say he’s “crazy” or “making it up”, but the reordered character hierarchy of The Last Jedi was particularly hard to take.

“Like, you guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver,” he says. “You knew what to do with these other people, but when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know fukk all. So what do you want me to say? What they want you to say is, ‘I enjoyed being a part of it. It was a great experience...’ Nah, nah, nah. I’ll take that deal when it’s a great experience. They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. I’m not exposing anything.”

“I’m the only cast member who had their own unique experience of that franchise based on their race,” he says, holding my gaze. “Let’s 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, ‘I got given this opportunity but I’m in an industry that wasn’t even ready for me.’ 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, ‘Black this and black that and you shouldn’t be a Stormtrooper.’ Nobody else had that experience. But yet people are surprised that I’m this way. That’s my frustration.”

 

[Slimkid07]

He and his wife seem like a cool couple