星／主役にする Wars actor John Boyega 明らかにする／漏らすs for first time how death of Damilola Taylor 奮起させるd him to become a movie 星／主役にする - because his childhood friend 'dreamed to be more' before he was stabbed to death 老年の 10
- Sci-fi 星／主役にする says the death of his friend 納得させるd him to 追求する his dreams?
- Damilola was 削除するd with a broken 瓶／封じ込める by two brothers 24 years ago
星／主役にする Wars actor John Boyega says the 殺人，大当り of his friend Damilola Taylor '形態／調整d' who he is today - as he opened up about the 殺すing of his friend at the age of 10 for the very first time.
Boyega, 32, best known for his 役割 as rogue Stormtrooper Finn in Disney's sci-fi saga, has spoken about how he was caught up in the youngster's death after Damilola was 削除するd with a broken 瓶／封じ込める and left to die on November 27 2000.
The actor, then 老年の eight, and his sister Grace were の中で the last people to see their friend alive before he was attacked by brothers Ricky and Danny Preddie in Peckham, south-east London, and left to bleed out.
Speaking to BBC 無線で通信する 4's Last Word podcast, Boyega said losing Damilola had been 'life-changing' - and that a reading of a poem the 10-year-old had written at his funeral showed how his friend had 'dreamed to be more'.
Boyega went on to 追求する a career in 事実上の／代理, appearing on 行う／開催する／段階 before his 打開 役割 in Joe Cornish's Attack the 封鎖する, about a ギャング（団） of teens who fight off an 外国人 侵略 in south London.
John Boyega at the NAACP Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month - a 儀式 recognising 業績／成就s in the arts by people of colour
Boyega was friends with Damilola Taylor (above), who was killed in the street in Peckham, south London in 2000 as he walked home from a library. Boyega (circled and blurred with sister Grace) was one of the last people to see him alive
Boyega's 打開 （機の）カム in Joe Cornish's 2011 sci-fi 活動／戦闘 film Attack the 封鎖する, about a ギャング（団） of 青年s who fight off an 外国人 侵略 in south London
He is now best known for his 役割 as rogue Stormtrooper Finn in the most 最近の 星／主役にする Wars trilogy of films
John Boyega pictured with his sister Grace at a special 審査 of Detroit in Los Angeles in 2017
He told the podcast's John Taylor:?'From the hours we left him in Peckham to the hours when I went home, and then the police was at our door and there was a whole 調査 that we were 伴う／関わるd in, (it) was definitely life changing for me, definitely altered my 視野.
'Even though I was young, it was a shock to understand how mortality worked.?To think that somebody as young as me could pass away in such a horrific way was hard for me to understand or comprehend.
'And I definitely think Damilola's 悲劇の (殺人，大当り) has definitely 形態／調整d me through the years and just 影響する／感情d my 視野 on 確かな things and it definitely 影響する／感情d the community too.
'I mean, my sister, in particular, Grace, who was very, very の近くに with Damilola, went through a lot, and my dad had to 前線 that and try to 保護する her in that 旅行. It was definitely a lot for everybody to take.'
反映するing on the poem Damilola had written, he said: 'It was during the time of the funeral his dad had read the poem that Damilola had written 負かす／撃墜する for himself.
'And that was a poem that spoke about what Damilola 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 達成する, how far he 手配中の，お尋ね者 his dreams to spread, who he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 衝撃 and touch.
'And I 設立する that やめる 深遠な because I was just 肉親，親類d of like "Man you're so young, why are you even thinking about that 肉親，親類d of stuff?"
'I'm here, wondering when the ice cream 先頭 is going to pull up and why he's an hour late from Monday.
'And you're thinking about all this stuff that you're going to do and how you're going to use your skillset to 衝撃 the world.
'And I guess that, just amongst other things, just gave birth to this mentality that I had.
'What is truly my dream? Do I have the guts to identify what my dream is? Am I too young to identify my dream and work に向かって it?
'And after reading that poem, I was just like, yeah, I have no excuse. I want to be a movie 星／主役にする.
'And not just because I want to be (one) but because someone else like Damilola Taylor, in my 環境 too, dreamed to be more.
'And I think that's 価値（がある） it. And it definitely has 衝撃d me till today.'
Damilola's father Richard, a civil servant from Nigeria,?died on March 23 老年の 75 に引き続いて a 戦う／戦い with prostate 癌?- after two １０年間s of （選挙などの）運動をするing to 妨げる 青年 罪，犯罪.
Boyega said Mr Taylor was 'a man that was for the people and for the community' and who 'turned his 悲劇の loss into something 勝利を得た'.
He told the podcast he was 動機づけるd to speak about Damilola に引き続いて news of Mr Taylor's death. He has never spoken about the death before.
He said: 'I 港／避難所't (spoken about it) and on 目的 too. I'm やめる 私的な in general, but with this 特に... it's that celebrity thing of not wanting to get in 前線 of very real life news.
'But on Richard Taylor's passing, I just was so 肉親，親類d of 動機づけるd to speak up.'
Richard Taylor, father of 殺害された schoolboy Damilola Taylor, died 老年の 75 earlier this month of prostate 癌 after １０年間s of anti-青年 罪，犯罪 （選挙などの）運動をするing
Damilola Taylor was killed by two brothers, Ricky and Danny Preddie, 老年の 13 and 12 at the time of the stabbing in November 2000
Mr Taylor met with the then-総理大臣 Gordon Brown at 10 負かす／撃墜するing Street as part of his anti-knife 罪，犯罪 crusade
Mr Taylor, pictured with his wife Gloria, 権利, 設立するd a 創立／基礎 in their son's memory
Boyega turned out at a 黒人／ボイコット Lives 事柄 決起大会／結集させる in Hyde Park すぐに after the death of George Floyd in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs to call for an end to racial 不正
He was 支援するd by 星／主役にする Wars 製造者s Lucasfilm, who labelled him a 'hero' for standing up for 黒人／ボイコット people
But Boyega has not been afraid to criticise Disney for how it 扱うd his character Finn, who was sidelined in later 星／主役にする Wars films after his debut (2019's The Rise of Skywalker, above)
Mr Taylor and his wife Gloria 始める，決める up a charity called The Damilola Taylor 信用 in the wake of their son's death. Gloria died in 2008 and Mr Taylor continued their work in the に引き続いて years.
Boyega 賞賛するd the 信用 and said: 'I've been a big 受益者 of the work that they've been doing.'
The actor from Peckham said he used to imagine, with his sister Grace, what Damilola might be like today and said he would have grown up to be a 'handsome young man with 広大な／多数の／重要な 適切な時期s and 広大な／多数の／重要な morals'.
