For the first time in his career he also pulls double duty as producer - a huge opportunity for any rising star, and one he jumped at. This time around Boyega stars as Jake Pentecost, Stacker’s disillusioned son and the new character propelling the franchise forward. “I guess I’m just now living out my dreams.” “Since I was a kid I was into comic books and movies and TV shows that were about extraordinary situations,” Boyega said during a quiet moment during his stateside “Pacific Rim 2” press tour, amid a flurry of photo shoots, interviews, appearances and hectic travel.

filmmaker Joe Cornish’s 2011 cult favorite “Attack the Block.” In the new youth-leaning, robot-heavy “Pacific Rim” sequel, he’s once again fighting off interstellar beings by uniting the disparate human characters around him on Earth. This weekend the British actor, 26, became the face of his second blockbuster franchise in three years, leading a phalanx of young mech-suited warriors into the brave new space future as the star of the sci-fi sequel “Pacific Rim Uprising.”īoyega has spent an inordinate time in his relatively young career to date dealing with aliens - having first burst onto Hollywood’s radar as the teen hero of U.K. Not too long ago in a galaxy far, far away, John Boyega shot to stardom as a reformed Stormtrooper adventuring his way into the Resistance alongside Rey, Poe, Luke and Leia in 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

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