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
TL;DR
- John Boyega's friend was stabbed when Boyega was eight years old.
- The event has had a lasting impact on his life.
- He discusses how this experience will shape him as he becomes a father.