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  • What is this?

  • What?

  • We're looking for a red.

  • I feel like the hot wing is looking back at me like this.

  • Hey, what's going on?

  • Everybody for first we feast.

  • I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones.

  • It's the show with hard questions and even hotter wings.

  • And today we close out Season 10 with John Boyega.

  • He's an actor and producer, you know best from films like Attack the Block, Pacific Rim Uprising and Star Wars.

  • Speaking up, you can catch him in Star Wars.

  • Episode nine The Rise of Skywalker, which is set in theaters on December 20th.

  • John Boyega.

  • Welcome to the show.

  • Thank you for having me.

  • I've heard you rave about pepper soup in the past, so I take it you're no stranger around.

  • Well, I shouldn't have said that man like this is a team.

  • But you know what?

  • We're here, and I'm happy to be able to watch the show.

  • Mmm.

  • That's good.

  • This is good chicken wings, man.

  • What?

  • You don't get it from my belly's playlist over here on 34th Street shots to use a free plug.

  • Everything on this table is against me.

  • Dude, I'm gonna make sure I'm on a plane from its focus.

  • I understand Nigerian food.

  • It can get quite spicy.

  • Where we at on the Nigerian heat index.

  • Probably not even registered with this.

  • This is no registering on my tongue, Not know nothing.

  • And then I understand that you took Harrison Ford to a Nigerian meal in London.

  • Yeah.

  • What was that like?

  • Is that seems special on multiple levels.

  • Yeah.

  • Um, on the day we were on the Millennium Falcon, as you do to shooting a scene on dhe Harrison was like, You know what?

  • I want to go and eat like real food.

  • Like different kind of food, like different taste.

  • Someone sick of chicken breast in the salad.

  • I was off the cool man Come down to the okay road.

  • It's a Nigerian restaurant there.

  • Go there and have some food.

  • And we went down there, got a car, and he ate every ordered, literally mourn me.

  • And then in the car back, he was lumped.

  • He was gone.

  • So gone that he was just like, Can we swap positions because you have a lot more leg room?

  • Harrison forward then for kid climbed over me to get into my seat.

  • We stopped places and he was silly.

  • Like snoring gone Nigerian food Coma.

  • Yeah, him, him.

  • And then I know that your major proponent of the food scene and Peckham, including your favorite chicken shop over there on ride lane.

  • What can you tell people about the chicken shop culture in London?

  • Because one time I went to Tottenham with this guy, that chicken connoisseur, all you were going to sort of, you know, chicken kind of way.

  • And we're at this spot in Tottenham and kids were just banging on the window trying to get in to take a picture with the guy.

  • Yeah.

  • I mean, you know, he's He's the best of the British special when it comes to chicken wings, you know, you get your standard two piece chicken and chips get you the number four, which is really good.

  • They throw in some ribs on some corn on the cob.

  • So you know, we got some.

  • We got some good nice dishes back over that way when there's a culture like you know, and it's cheap is well, you know, a little box fries, chicken you good for today?

  • I come from nothing.

  • My comfortable step mob guys that up.

  • Remember he said this, Remember?

  • He said this Here's how I'm gonna go out Confidence You've kept some pretty cool keepsakes from your time in Star Wars from that, uh, red Spider Man stormtrooper helmet that J J gifted you to the Han solo action figure that you got signed by Harrison.

  • Which one is most special to you when you think about your time on set?

  • The Harrison Ford Vigor is really special to me.

  • Like I was able to hold on to that figure and go through the whole franchise and get multiple different people to sign it.

  • This is, you know, new characters that we haven't met yet.

  • And I don't see, you know, some some characters that are, you know, pivotal to the Star Wars story.

  • But they're not obviously on set all the time.

  • And when I could locate them, I locate them.

  • But I have to figure on me.

  • Could you please sign better video game?

  • In your opinion, the force unleashed or battlefront?

  • Um, I would say about front, definitely a better game because of the online platform.

  • And then the film is one of the most locked down secretive films that I can recall being made.

  • Can you reveal some of the behind the scenes security measures that go into putting a cap on Star Wars?

  • I know.

  • I remember.

  • I put on overcoat because every time we leave the set, we can't actually leave in costume.

  • So if you want to go to the toilet and honesty in studio Lot, we can't just leave.

  • We have to put these cloaks on, put my cloak on and I couldn't get back into set Security guy.

  • I must have been his first day and he was just like, No, no, no, I can't let anyone here, but I'm here.

  • But I'm in the I'm in the film.

  • I promise you a minute.

  • Good enough, Like one of the senior security dudes came down and gave me the posse that's fed that.

  • Yeah, that's been so to someone on the outside of the movie business, it would seem like more British actors than Americans worked their way through the ranks of theater or at least classically trained at places like Prada and Central.

  • How would you explain the drama tradition and Britain to an outsider calling New York right guys theater scene.

  • Harris is pretty consistent, very professional.

  • Some really top notch training is the same thing.

  • The UK But a special thing about the U.

  • K.

  • Is that the theaters are also tired toe after school activity so you can get involved in theater from your young.

  • And that's how I got involved with just a youth group.

  • And then we ended up connecting different theaters, different performances.

  • And that's how you really get the bug or you can leave it be.

  • But four is a good experience.

  • Do you see any difference and say, Anak ter, who has a theater background on a big budget movie set versus someone who's just been doing TV and films since the beginning?

  • You know, I thought it depends on the individual.

  • I think that some people are turning into the point where, regardless of the format, they adjust and adapt a Some people just have it.

  • I guess it depends if you have been doing TV for a long while.

  • Maybe there's some bad habits see, pick up.

  • You know, you're not used to, you know, transitioning onto stage.

  • It's a different process.

  • Also preparing for for stage work So it just depends on the individual.

  • To me, you know, there is a significant jump from film to TV then, too, two stages to get three different forms.

  • And then I know one of the places that you studied was at the identity school for acting.

  • What is special about that place?

  • Because there seems to be a lot of the alumni popping up in big, huge blockbusters all over the place right now.

  • It's incredible.

  • Like that was just basically a drama school set up by my agent Femi organs on Dhe.

  • He was in London and found that not a lot of black people are getting into mainstream drama schools.

  • You know, we'll find in there, you know, one per class.

  • And that and that for him, wasn't enough.

  • He had been an actor before, and he was in, like, EastEnders, you know, those British TV shows.

  • And on the leaflet, he was basically saying, you know, get trained by actors who have been in, you know, EastEnders Casualty was talking about himself but fruit through that he set off a drama school on me.

  • Leticia Wright, Mallika Kirby.

  • Some of the British names that you know now it's on the big screen.

  • We went there and it was a hub of creativity where, you know, it was just a lot of young people who had the same dream who didn't laugh for each of his dream.

  • And it was cool.

  • Like I It's like some of the best days of my life.

  • I really enjoyed it, you know.

  • I got some.

  • So first we feast recently did a deep dive into the connection between enemy and hip hop on this new show that we have called Goetschi Gang, and I know that you're a huge fan.

  • What do you think it is about Anna Mae?

  • Why do you think it's inspired such a huge global following anime, I think because of its long form format.

  • So it lasts for ages.

  • You take some men and Naruto, for example, you literally watch the current oh grow up day by day.

  • And then there are filler episodes that give you kind of like clarity on the world surrounding the leads of the several different needs in it in the enemy.

  • And it's just the way it's the way they tell stories about the time when characters are like standing in one scene, you're going into their subconscious minds, you know, like for example, I'm here like I'm doing Well, chicken wings are good a ship.

  • I don't know if this next one's about to blow my fricking brains to the sky.

  • Right is like that, and they do like a subconscious thing.

  • We go back and forth, and that's cool.

  • I really like that.

  • It's a great way of storytelling, this fun.

  • And I guess it just touching.

  • They tap into the imagination of individuals and people just really, really love it.

  • There was actually on YouTube, an animated version off Star Wars.

  • They have the X Wings flying in the animated exactly like what?

  • It would be like inanimate TV show.

  • And it actually it actually really, really worked, like, really, really did.

  • And I think the X Wings spaceships, the light saber fights, all that kind of stuff is his enemy.

  • Ask what would you recommend?

  • Like if somebody were just dipping their toes into the animate pond and they were just wanted to get started?

  • What do you think are some titles to get them started?

  • I would say attack on Titan, definitely say narrow um, one punch, man.

  • One punch, one punch Mons.

  • Very People say I look like one punch, man.

  • I get that treaty.

  • Oh, no.

  • Yeah.

  • You know, last 30 on my that one with moisturizing.

  • That's yourselves out.

  • Okay, what's going on?

  • The biggest fan of this sort taste is a bit firing.

  • That horse radish.

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah, big fun of that.

  • What?

  • That's the way.

  • Still sitting here?

  • I mean, all right, Tommy.

  • Every crane segment on our show called Explain that, Graham, we do a deep dive on our guests.

  • Instagram pull interesting pictures that need more contacts, so we'll just put him up on the monitor.

  • You tell us the bigger story.

  • Does that sound good?

  • Yeah, it sounds great, but, uh, people at home if I got chicken wings in a court of my mouth, he's way his bucket.

  • So this 1st 1 Okay, someone said to me that it looked like I was taking horse riding lessons from Putin.

  • Fit is amazing that the fit is amazing.

  • Child to daily paper really could fit.

  • I was training for Star Wars Episode nine.

  • There's a big carvery seen that way.

  • Have specifically me and know me This was one of the days that it was just hot as hell.

  • I've been in the gym and I thought, You know what?

  • Shedding mom's money.

  • All right, up next we have a Tokyo my best friend, Asia of my voice.

  • Their family were there for for a little bit.

  • And we were just exploring being big.

  • Kids were ordered to anime.

  • You know, Gundam stuff like they have a big life size condom in the middle of Tokyo that would change like that would morph like in the evenings.

  • This is actually crazy.

  • I'm about to go again.

  • I'm gonna do a whole bunch of stuff.

  • But this was just us exploring the game in district that had long arcades figures without stopping just looking around.

  • Why is not inhale Carnival?

  • It's such a big deal.

  • Such a big deal.

  • You know what?

  • I got in trouble for this shit.

  • What I went to I went to know in whole carnival and I caught wines like, you know, you go No one who kind of we're gonna catch wines like you lying on a girl, you know, dance.

  • And in this carnival thing is one of my many subjects and way had a fantastic time.

  • You take a picture, and I don't know, I guess there was some Disney fans who were locked up tight and be like whose own That's part of Disney.

  • Wouldn't do a thing like that.

  • I'm not sure.

  • Top man catching wines, That carnival?

  • Yep.

  • Baby, I'm going to do.

  • Yep.

  • Okay.

  • Cool.

  • My subconscious is one of this.

  • I put it, not you mock me spicy.

  • So I read that before you accepted the role of fit J.

  • J.

  • Abrams.

  • He gave you a long speech cautioning you about the responsibilities that go with being a part of a franchise that's as iconic as Star Wars morality.

  • That he was speaking about the responsibility for me.

  • Like I found that.

  • Nice.

  • Because, you know, this is someone who was just kind of, like, keep it humble, be yourself.

  • Enjoy this experience, But make sure you understand that obviously, a lot of people are gonna be watching you.

  • Make sure every Tracy make it something that you're okay with it.

  • Such an interesting position to be in where it's like, Oh, here's a role that's just gonna catapult you into a spot that nothing in life really builds you for not nothing prepares you for it.

  • Onda lot people had opinions as into how it was gonna go out for years, you know?

  • But there's nothing like you go in through that yourself and then finding out what works for you.

  • What?

  • What does it.

  • And then you get a layer right then because you did before every sentence.

  • My man's lot.

  • Listen, what's going on, man?

  • It's for the guest May 10 seasons in your closing out.

  • You know, it's like a running back.

  • You put a lot of miles.

  • You're right.

  • I'm not come fresh from college, you know?

  • I mean, yeah, I get it, I get it.

  • And then you get a lot of credit for being an ambassador to Star Wars and four Star Wars, and you're not afraid to mix it up with fans or respond to feedback on Twitter?

  • One has tryingto out nerd.

  • The nerds backfired on you.

  • Never, never, never has I choose my battles wisely on a lot of the times online.

  • I'm I'm, like, so intrigued to hear what fans think to hear how they feel or they're just discussed things is as nerds.

  • I think the biggest one that I did was when I said that Anakin Skywalker is a stronger, much badge.

  • It either right he is.

  • And I think actually, the fans kind of galvanized behind you.

  • Yeah, I mean, well, you know, but sometimes we just like that's not true.

  • But now you're lying.

  • Anakin's G Ray will get pushed to decide We'll get slime to the wall and held there.

  • So while he fights so like yes, just true, my kneecaps are shaking to be a con like I'm doing Well, chicken was good, but she I don't know if this next one's about again, but that just means breathe sky.

  • I feel like you're not gonna happen.

  • Nigerian woman walk out with soup Right now you go, John, it is the season 10 finale is you got a room, not what's going on.

  • So in addition, your PS four and Jo Malone London sense I know that one thing you always travel with one thing You always travel with his books.

  • Is there a self help book that you can say actually change your life for the better?

  • I would save Divine Franklin's produced by faith was quite what?

  • Quite good book.

  • Um, I really enjoyed it from someone in industry that then speaks about, you know, faith.

  • Growth industry matters in a very, very cool way.

  • That was something that definitely was moving into me.

  • I thought that she has been I've learned so many lessons, man.

  • Like, I've learned so many lessons about myself.

  • I've made some changes just in a way, you know, I interact with people, my friends, you know, within my family.

  • Mom and Dad take care of their more 2020 actually.

  • Want to see those lessons?

  • Exercise.

  • All right, the bomb beyond insanity.

  • Okay, that's what we're looking for.

  • A red.

  • I feel like the whole wing is looking back at me like this.

  • Oh, yes.

  • On that Nigeria heat scale way start in that way in the game I got mine, Simon Way in a game.

  • Now win a game.

  • So I know that in the lead up to Star Wars, you would do months of lightsaber fight Wu to prepare for the film.

  • Do you remember the first time you picked up a lightsaber?

  • Heavier than you thought it would be later than you thought it would be.

  • heavy.

  • It was heaviest help, but we had a lot training.

  • Became in towards out soon, right?

  • Say about what's the basic news.

  • And then we started going out getting faster, Stronger?

  • Well, I don't know if you're aware of this, but on YouTube there is a whole genre of amateur jet, though it seems that very few of them actually have.

  • I don't drink into me when I'm going through this.

  • So what I want to do is look, he ignores everything.

  • You're going to show you some of the aspiring jet eyes that we found on YouTube.

  • And I'm just wondering if you have any snap takes to this.

  • Okay, first up, what do you think of this spinning back fist Now, if it was one of the Sabres on set, you would have finished.

  • It would have been finished.

  • If those sabers caught you on set, he would have been knocked up.

  • So that dangerous.

  • But that was good.

  • All right, up next.

  • How strong is the force with this juggling jet?

  • Does he have the wind in his mouth?

  • Sit.

  • I'm impressed.

  • But during the video, all I saw was swelling flames.

  • It's not like a filter you guys have in the studio that she definitely not a personal problem.

  • Definitely not a personal problem.

  • Oh, my gosh.

  • The spice was on the clock, and I walked onto my nose.

  • That's like some double shit.

  • I didn't watch the eyes.

  • The eyes definitely watch tithe.

  • All right, Is anything like this ever happens?

  • You on set Here we have a father, son.

  • Yeah.

  • Yep.

  • Just go do something awesome.

  • Is that Daschle like?

  • Oh, yeah, Adam driver actually caught me a few times on my fingers, and I generally I got mad about it.

  • I was like, This guy needs to aim up, man.

  • I don't mind at all.

  • So we're going back before I actually disarmed him and he saved my life, flew and landed in the snow.

  • The whole crew was I was like, That's how it should have ended.

  • That's how it should have ended.

  • All right, One more for you.

  • And it has nothing to do with light sabers per se.

  • Yeah, You guys do the heat and Lucifer dwelling in my mouth.

  • Here's a guy farting the tune of the Imperial march.

  • Just curious if you cool your mouth I'm confused.

  • when I drop the load, like, you know, we freestyling.

  • So I don't know what's going on down there.

  • I mean, after that, we wantto what e and fire.

  • I don't know why.

  • I think, you know, playing with it in my hand it's gonna change was like, you're gonna find some spot on, you know?

  • I mean, yeah, that boom right there, Carl.

  • I pretended it went to my spirit, broke.

  • I felt it in my head.

  • In fact, when you were talking, I don't understand a word you're saying.

  • Well, you know what?

  • You executed the segment flawlessly.

  • Yeah.

  • Thank you.

  • So it's a real pro thing tomorrow.

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you So much.

  • Shouts out to its array.

  • She's She's the reason for the season.

  • She 100 like, Hey, I love that he's a rape.

  • So I just feel like she handled it very well.

  • You're doing great too.

  • I am.

  • I am.

  • I fool.

  • OK, come.

  • Good best friends that way.

  • Sorry.

  • I heard you joke that your father responded to you being cast in Star Wars by saying, What is Star Wars?

  • Is there a role or accomplishment from your career so far that you think has resonated especially well with your parents.

  • With my dad, I did a Nigerian movie called Hot Yet of Sun With You.

  • It's Allergy or four.

  • Tandy knew back home in Nigeria, a shoo in on DDE Pacific Rim for a moment that Dave told Pacific Rim was bad and Star Wars.

  • It's at the end of the screen, and my dad's like, You know what?

  • I can understand this specific Korean better than the Star Wars that was, They'll be running.

  • I don't understand a word.

  • I don't understand what this one right here.

  • I love it.

  • Do you have a special spot in your heart for the fans who approach you because they recognize you from Law and Order 24?

  • Yeah.

  • Yes, it's funny.

  • You say Law and order, because in Law and Order is one of my best performances yet in which I played against criminal as you do.

  • I'm and in his other people that would be like, Yo, I loves your stock Shoot for modeling pictures Way took him out.

  • I forgot about those because I have done a bunch of stock shoot before I became Yeah, you're like like the college brochure thing.

  • Yeah, I used to be signed to, like, Spotlight or these free audition sites and all that stuff.

  • And they was used to have these opportunities there on one of them was paying £50.

  • See, those stocks shoot for hours will now go online, and colleges all over the world will not buy it.

  • I'm proud to announce that I've just been accepted into college in Dallas.

  • You know, the name of college, but I'm in the stairwell.

  • Well, look how far you've come.

  • I no, John boy.

  • And did I flinch?

  • Did I flinch?

  • No, I got this.

  • My so is burnt to a crisp.

  • All right, John, this is the last dab we call it the last Dad.

  • Because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last one.

  • Are you shaking it like that?

  • You don't have to if you don't want to.

  • Don't say that.

  • All right, I pray to you, Isa Ray!

  • Whoa!

  • Guide me.

  • She is.

  • Cheers.

  • All right, John Boyega, Here we are on me.

  • My check, man.

  • At the end of the line, Chick.

  • The end of the season, the end of the year and before the acting thing took off.

  • I understand that you had a dream of being a newspaper cartoonist.

  • Yet we would be honored if you gave us a quick doodle that we can hang forever in the hot ones.

  • Museum of Curiosity.

  • L yeah, we're lucky.

  • This will take a minute.

  • We got time.

  • We got time.

  • Everything inspired by the wings of death.

  • And what a masterpiece it is.

  • Help me donate $2.50 for a ll.

  • The victims of hot ones, please.

  • I need you and look atyou.

  • John Boyega.

  • Chicken wings up.

  • 10 chicken wings down your most war todo down season 10 It's a wrap, Appreciate bird.

  • And now I have to do is roll out the red carpet for you, my friend.

  • Thank you.

  • This camera, this camera, this camera people know what you have going on in your life.

  • Thank you.

  • So, you know, currently I just wrapped up on Steve McQueen.

  • Small axe on.

  • That's gonna come out 2020.

  • I've just signed onto Netflix feet chart they cloned Tyrone Man wouldn't be doing in another action movie called Rebel Ridge.

  • I forgot about the Indy that have coming out about the turn of a storm trooper to a resistance fighter.

  • It's a small little film.

  • Police support Star Wars.

  • The Rise of Skywalker.

  • It's small budget only on 20 screens.

  • I would love for you to be there.

  • Please make a kid's dream come true.

  • Not I don't have control over the rest of my body.

  • I'm doing this.

  • But look at this.

  • No water, no on the mill.

  • We were in a stalemate.

  • Ray, we trust.

  • Hey, what's going on?

  • Hot ones fans.

  • This is Shaun Evans checking in to say Thank you so much for watching today's video and have a very exciting announcement for hot ones.

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