-Last time you were here,
it was before "The Force Awakens" came out.
-Yeah. Mm-hmm. -And who knew?
Who knew how big the movie --
Of course, it's the biggest movie ever created, but...
[ Laughter ]
Yeah, thank you for coming back. -No worries.
-Has life changed completely since I saw you last?
-I mean, just a little bit. Just a little bit.
[ Laughter ]
But, yeah, I mean, scheduling is different now.
I don't have my own time like I used to.
I get to travel all over the world, meet great people.
You know, it's good, man. I like it.
-Have you been working nonstop since then?
-Yes, I have.
I went from "Star Wars VIII" to "Detroit,"
and then went from "Detroit" to "Pacific Rim,"
and then went from "Pacific Rim" to a play.
And then here I am.
-There you go. You know where you are, yeah.
-No breaks. -No breaks at all.
-No breaks.
-But you finished, also, "The Last Jedi."
-Yes. -So that's out.
So we just found out even that that was the title of the film.
Do they let you know, besides the scenes you're in,
what the movie's about, or what?
-No. I think they have that thing Will Smith had
in those "Men In Black" films
that makes you forget everything.
-Yeah, exactly, yeah.
-So, yeah, we don't get to know about the little secrets.
But it's nice.
We get to be a part of the surprise, like you guys.
-I mean -- But, I mean, are you just going around now
just signing lightsabers?
Do you own, like, a lot of --
I would think that you would have
a collection of lightsabers in your house.
-I mean, I do, but it's limited.
Because anytime I have, like, family members over,
my parents are kind of just like,
"Yeah, you should give one of the lightsabers to the kids."
And that's when my face becomes more straight
than it's ever been.
[ Laughter ]
And then I have to, like, forcefully just go,
"Oh, may the Force be with you."
[ Laughter ]
-"That was mine. That was Uncle's."
-That was -- That was mine.
-But what's going on with the new director.
You and Rian Johnson are having a little
back-and-forth on Twitter.
-[ Laughing ] Yeah. We always do.
-Yeah, because you -- I guess you took --
you forced yourself to take a little break.
-A week and two days out of a year and a half,
I forced myself to take a week and two days,
and Rian Johnson wasn't happy with that.
-Here's your problem. Because you posted a photo,
or someone posted a photo on Instagram,
and it just looks like paradise.
This is you just relaxing. -Yep.
-And then, here's your director, who says,
"Back to work, Boyega."
"What are you doing?" [ Laughter ]
I mean, that looks like paradise.
-Yeah, you know, after that, I had, like,
hundreds of messages from "Star Wars" fans, saying,
"You've got reshoots! You've got to go back!"
-"You got to go back! We want this movie on time!"
-"We want this movie on time!"
-"Come on, man!" Yeah.
-So, I had to leave.
-You had to leave, because -- yeah.
-I think I was supposed to be at ADR that day, as well,
so, you know...
-Also, I was like, "Where do you get that..."
You know how to pose. I mean, you got one of those --
I mean, you're a good-looking dude.
-Oh, thank you, man, thank you.
-You know how to do this. You know how to do the pose.
-Thank you, thank you.
-And I go -- Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
This is GQ. This is GQ.
-This is GQ. -This is major.
-That's crazy. That's big.
-It is big, but then I go, "Oh."
I looked back in some Wikipedia,
and I saw that you were a model.
-Oh, man! [ Laughter ]
-You were the stock photo in every college brochure.
-Disclaimer -- I needed the money.
[ Laughter ]
-Here you are right there.
This is -- Yeah.
Everyone. [ Cheers and applause ]
Guys, girls, every race represented.
[ Laughing ]
Here's you working hard at a computer, maybe.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Be honest -- is there anything on that screen?
-Yeah, the computer wasn't on.
-It wasn't on at all, yeah. -It wasn't on.
-I like this one, too.
This is you and the gang. [ Laughter ]
Going through some homework? -I think it was so ridiculous.
I mean, these photos are, you know, for college awareness,
getting students to go to college and stuff.
And they said, "We want to make you guys look more natural."
And they decided to give us a piece of paper between us.
[ Laughter ]
And I said, like, "This is a commercial
for the brokest school ever.
-You can only afford one piece of paper...
-Yeah, only one piece of paper. -...per 12 students.
[ Laughter ]
I mean, everyone's over, like,
"Oh, yeah, that's a great problem there, John."
"Yeah, I know how to solve that one, yeah."
-Yeah, yeah.
-How much money did you make off this?
-I made ££50. -Hey, not bad.
-Not bad, not bad, ££50.
And I used it to invest back into my drama school.
I had ££300 to pay for the term.
And that ££50, it went a long way.
-Yeah, it certainly did.
And thank God you went to that thing,
'cause you're a fantastic actor.
-Thank you.