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THE GRAVITY OF JOHN BOYEGA

JOHN BOYEGA WOULD NOT LIE DOWN. IT WAS 2021, AND HE WAS filming an early scene for the blistering sci-fi conspiracy thriller They Cloned which hit theaters this summer. Boyega’s street-hustler character, Fontaine, reconvenes with an irritable pimp named Slick Charles (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 script called for Boyega to lie flat on the bed, staring at the ceiling as they talk. Boyega lay there and sucked his teeth.

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