Here's the full quote that isn't from lol Breitbart
hen the stormtrooper took off his helmet in Episode VII, it didn't just matter that there was a real person under there. It mattered that the face you saw belonged to John Boyega, son of Samson Adegboyega and Nigeria and Peckham. “There are no black people on Game of Thrones,” Boyega says. (To be fair, there are, like, three.) “You don't see one black person in Lord of the Rings.” (That is true.) And though Star Wars had featured a few black characters—Billy Dee Williams as a smuggler, Samuel L. Jackson as a peripheral Jedi—they were less represented in the galaxy than Ewoks.
“I ain't paying money to always see one type of person on-screen,” says Boyega. “Because you see different people from different backgrounds, different cultures, every day. Even if you're a racist, you have to live with that. We can ruffle up some feathers.”
When we watched that first moment of the Episode VII teaser trailer, we didn't see who we were expecting to see. We got someone who simultaneously understood his insignificance in the scope of the multi-billion-dollar franchise he was inhabiting and could blow up everything we thought we knew about it. Han Solo is the obvious choice for that trailer—Harrison Ford is the icon in the movie. But Abrams re-introduced Star Wars through Boyega because Boyega's performance was the one that defined his movie.
But, yeah, Star Wars is bigger than Boyega. So are Hollywood and fame. There's racism in film, and in the world, and in Peckham. And obviously nobody in Hollywood is bigger than Ford or Robert Downey Jr. But Boyega is at peace with his place in a much larger system—it's probably not a coincidence that he's religious. This sense of smallness, this humility, brings him the kind of joy that spurs spontaneous red-carpet dancing and allows him to hold the weight of the galaxy on his shoulders.
Boyega struggled to his feet in the desert, sands shifting beneath them, thighs burning as he got his back up and came into shot. And in that moment, his life changed.
Well, it did and it didn't.
“People were saying that,” he says. “But it truly didn't feel that way. It just felt like this would give me the opportunity. To make stuff happen. To make my dreams come true.”
To use the film to do it himself. Let Star Wars be the star of Star Wars. John Boyega can take it from here.
I think he was talking about film/TV in general and just spouted it out as an example. ---