John Boyega photographed by Peggy Sirota for GQ
‘During auditions we weren’t allowed to take the script home so as soon as I got the part I was like, “Get me in that room to read the script.”’ Then he started thinking: ‘Who’s going to be doing all these stunts?’ He ended up doing them himself. The hardest challenge was the lightsaber battles. ‘They’re heavy, those things, and there’s a lot of running involved. I was trained on a high incline treadmill so when it came to it I could sprint around the desert in a leather jacket. They should do a Star Wars weight loss program.’
