John Boyega didn’t want to spend another Star Wars movie face down in the dirt. At a recent Emerald City Comic Con panel (via Popverse ), the actor behind Finn opened up about his conversations with The Rise of Skywalker director J.

“Lemme tell ya, Star Wars always had the vibe of being in the most whitest, elite space,” John Boyega said during an appearance in the Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood documentary. “It’s a franchise that’s so white that a Black person existing in [it] was something .”