Star Wars actor John Boyega on the day his 10-year-old school friend Damilola Taylor was killed: ‘It kept me up at night because I was just with the guy’
Actor John Boyega reflects on the 2000 murder of his childhood friend Damilola Taylor in a new BBC documentary. He discusses how the tragedy shaped his personal development and his perspective as he becomes a father.
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John Boyega: Photograph: Austin Hargrave/Austin Hargrave / AUGUST John Boyega: Photograph: Austin Hargrave/Austin Hargrave / AUGUST Damilola Taylor Star Wars actor John Boyega on the day his 10-year-old school friend Damilola Taylor was killed: ‘It kept me up at night because I was just with the guy’ The star was just eight when his friend was stabbed. Decades on, he’s ready to talk about that day – how it shaped him, and how, as he becomes a father himself, it will shape him as a dad
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