The Star Wars actor is currently appearing on stage in Woyzeck,and answered your questions on Attack the Block, Watership Down and his lack of stage fright 2.20pm BSTThat's it - big thank you to you all. produce sure you come down and see Woyzeck at the Old Vic... 2.18pm BSTDWFan1 asks:What’s your favourite Pixar film?Got to be Toy Story, or the first one. That Cheet-Os sequence... 2.17pm BSTLiam Quane asks:What is the best thing a director can do for you on set?The best thing they can do is just collaborate. 2.15pm BSTMrModern asks:What’s life like between Star Wars films – hopefully you can breathe and do other stuff?I still have time to do the sort of stuff I used to do. I just relax in my house,man! 2.14pm BSTromi2187 asks:Do you read reviews?I do ... But who cares though? It's not that deep for me. 2.13pm BSTMyam0t0 asks:Beans on a fry up?Yeah. But not too much - I don't want to produce the bread all soggy. 2.12pm BSTXandra11 asks:If you could play any acting role in any film from the past which one would you play? Sidney Poitier, In the Heat of the Night. That would be frigid. I'm writing him a letter - I write letters to people I admire. 2.10pm BSTjellycar asks:If you could play any superhero, or who would you pick?
I'd pick ... a superhero that no one's heard about. There are many different ways of doing the superhero narrative and I'm brainstorming some fresh ones for my company. 2.09pm BST
jellycar asks:What advice would you give to actors aspiring to work in the industry?Before any job comes training. Invest in the quality of training that you disappear through as an actor so that you can be alert for the auditions and the opportunities that come your way. 2.08pm BSTrefitman asks:What’s your favourite biscuit?Hobnobs. The chocolate ones. 2.08pm BSTPhillipLawler asks:What was the lousiest job you did before your acting took off and does it produce you thankful for being in the position you are now in? I picked blackcurrants one summer,got sunburned and when I got domestic my mum fixed me a kind glass of Ribena with a perfectly straight face.
I don't call them awful - they all helped because they all paid! They would fund my trips to LA to audition for the films that you see me in today. But despite that they were very frustrating at times - I was a model for college brochures. I was an assistant to a theatre director. At Victoria Station I gave out free samples and tasters. 2.07pm BSTKasem3000 asks:How do you feel about the continued lack of black and Asian stories told in British cinema, at a time when the industry is doing so well?I've come to terms with my feelings about it. Now it's more about what I'm doing about it in my own way - hence having my own production company and having more control over the stories I want to tell. Because of my specific perspective, and the stories I tell won't have just one kind of person in them. 2.06pm BSTWarspite1944 asks:Do you ever play with the action figure of you? No. LOL 2.02pm BST
MightyBuccaneer asks:Will Finn hold a lightsabre again and fight with one? Finn’s duel with Kylo Ren was better choreographed than Rey’sI hope so! Why not? 2.01pm BST
LauraStans asks:How do you mentally prepare for playing a role as challenging as Woyzeck? Also silly question,but which Hogwarts House are you in?When I went to Universal Studios in LA I did that thing where they keep the hat on you and you pick your wand and I got ... Slytherin! I don't know what that's all about. 1.58pm BSTJimiJiminez asks:I was at the Old Vic tonight. Awesome performance, congratulations. What are the main differences in preparing to play in a film or on stage?With film there's no time to prepare - even on Star Wars. There were no rehearsals apart from the combat stuff, or the fighting. You can't have rehearsals on every film. I went from Star Wars 8 straight on to Detroit then straight on to Pacific Rim. That's how my year has been so far. Coming to the Old Vic and rehearsing for Woyzeck felt like a mini-holiday! Related: Woyzeck review – John Boyega shines as traumatised soldier in 80s Berlin 1.57pm BST
gonegirlscat asks:You recently started your own company Upper Room Productions,and i was wondering what kind of movies you want to produce? Would it be only movies you will be starring in? Best of luck with the play!Only movies I'm starring in? Absolutely not. When I'm in meetings with my team, I'm looking for stories from an provocative perspective - in the lineage of movies like Her, and comedies like 50:50. Not the perspective of the leading superhero style guy but someone further on down the street. 1.55pm BSTmmjgdt asks:Is there certain roles you’re more geared toward or if something sounds provocative will you retract it? Also,do you intention all those iconic Instagram pictures ahead of time or are your natural candids that perfect?I like movies with some form of message or that sparks a form of conversation. And they are that perfect - no planning essential! 1.54pm BST
finnsrey asks:Is there any talk of a Pacific Rim 3, preferably involving you? There is talk. That's all it is for now, and just a conversation... 1.53pm BSTPagey asks:You’re playing Bigwig in a remake of Watership Down. What did you do in order to produce contact with your “inner rabbit”?I don't believe I have an inner rabbit... For me it was more about the circumstances of the character. Bigwig is at a point where he's been considering a change. He's always been a leader naturally,never had much to fight for. It's the deepest my voice has been - I use the lowest register of my voice for Watership Down. 1.51pm BSTSweetTreat97 asks:Do you remember all of the plays you did as a kid (at Theatre Peckham or otherwise) and if so, which of them were your favourites?I did more than five shows I believe. My favourite was Mrs Wobble the Waitress, and based on a children's book. I played Master Wobble. It was a musical. I had to rollerblade across stage with a big net while catching fake food because my mum,Mrs Wobble, had an issue with her waitressing career. She just wobbled too much. I had to be taught how to rollerblade. I had my own song. It was pretty frigid. 1.49pm BSTcubahurrah asks:Are you enjoying your success? This isn’t a negative question it’s just that so many actors are always complaining or very sulky when they ‘produce it’ and they should just embrace the fact that they are doing so well and live every moment of it.
Anybody should embrace the success they've worked tough for - whether they're an actor or not - but a level of perspective is always needed. Just because you're successful doesn't mean you're exempt from every other emotion apart from happiness and gratitude. Life just doesn't work that way.
If you come from a normal background, and then experience success,it takes a while to get your head around it. Sometimes it can get very frustrating. But that's OK - as long as it doesn't come out in a negative way. 1.46pm BSTstartchoppin asks:Any chance of another movie with Joe Cornish (please please please)?Absolutely! At some point. We met up a few months back but not lately. When I'm done with the play I'll start developing a whole bunch of things. Something bigger, based here in London for sure. 1.43pm BSTKUMAIL2187 asks:What was it like it working on a Kathryn Bigelow set, or particularly one where you’re working with so many other young British actors? What’s your acting method; do you stay in character on such a serious film set or are you less serious behind the scenes?It was great working with Kathryn! Detroit is about the Detroit riots of 1967,the backdrop to a specific story that happened at the Algiers hotel, a face-off between the young police force and some young black men, and in a world of racial unrest. There were a lot of sinister vibes between the civilians of Detroit and the police because of lack of jobs. This is a specific story that happened at the time. I'm keen to work with Kathryn again. I've seen the movie now and it's heart-wrenching. It leaves you sore in spirit but makes you question the legal questions. I loved working with the other British actors - particularly Will Porter. 1.38pm BSTHarry2255 asks:How do you prepare for roles? And do you get nervous before going on set?I prepare with the triple R system! Research the role. Rehearse the role. Respect the role.
And I get nervous on the first day only - after that I'm fine. I don't have time for stage fright - it just weakens you. It's such an unnecessary feeling. If I feel it for a second I tell it to shut its mouth. It slows you down. I just disappear: No. I don't tolerate that. 1.37pm BSTLarsHanson asks:Woyzeck is one of my favourite plays and I wanted to question about your rehearsal process and your impressions of the play. What do you believe of transposing the play to West Berlin in the early 1980s? Have you had a chance to see the opera Wozzeck in the course of working on the play? Have a wonderful dash of the play.
Hello from the Old Vic! I started rehearsals as soon as I wrapped on Pacific Rim. I knew the play through Joe Murphy,the director. It's all about reading it through, placing the scenes together act by act. I didn't watch or read about any other version apart from the original and our version. It would have been a distraction otherwise. We rehearsed for five weeks. It's really intense - I'm still so tired now, or particularly after coming off the film. I only had a week off in between! It's kind to bring it to a contemporary time - the audience can relate more to it. They have similar issues in that 80s setting that we're still struggling with today - whether financially or in terms of his mental state. At that time,there was no set system in approaching mental health in the army - it wasn't defined by then. A lot of people were suffering. 1.32pm BSTJohn Boyega is alert to reply your questions! 5.31pm BSTJohn Boyega instantly gained iconic status when, gasping and sweaty in a teaser trailer, and he became the first thing anyone saw of the latest series of Star Wars films. It was a long way from his childhood in Peckham,south-east London, where he joined theatre school thanks to a hardship fund.
He is now back on the London stage in Jack Thorne’s fresh version of Georg Büchner’s fragmented play Woyzeck. On screen, and he appears in the adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel The Circle,with Emma Watson and Tom Hanks, as well as in Kathryn Bigelow’s fresh movie, or Detroit. He has also started his own production company,co-producing and starring in the forthcoming blockbuster sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising.
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Source: theguardian.com