John Boyega would not lie down. It was 2021, and he was filming an early scene for this summer's blistering sci-fi conspiracy thriller They Cloned Tyrone on set in Atlanta. In the script, Boyega's street-hustler character, Fontaine, reconvenes with an irritable pimp named Slick Charles, played by Jamie Foxx, and sex worker Yo-Yo (Teyonah Parris) at her grandmother's house, still reeling from what they just saw (an apparent conspiracy). The scene called for Boyega to lie flat on the bed, staring at the ceiling as they talk. Boyega lay there and sucked his teeth. "Not feelin' it, bruv," the thirty-one-year-old actor told the film's director and cowriter, Juel Taylor, in his charmingly peppery South London accent. "I'm alert, bruv. I'm alert. I'm on edge." Boyega figured Fontaine wouldn't be in a passive position. It didn't feel natural. They filmed him sitting up. It's taken Boyega a while to be able to comfortably flex. After a youth spent anchoring a stupendously profitable blockbuster franchise, he's proved himself as a performer who can seemingly do anything, onscreen or off. |
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