{"id":35661,"date":"2019-12-07T03:03:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T03:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35661"},"modified":"2019-12-07T03:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T03:03:06","slug":"john-boyega-ive-met-americans-who-dont-know-black-people-live-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35661","title":{"rendered":"John Boyega: I&#8217;ve met Americans who don&#8217;t know black people live in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment is great chance to open people&rsquo;s eyes, says Star Wars actor<\/p>\n<p>The Star Wars actor John Boyega says he has satisfy Americans who are not aware there are black people living in London, and believes the under-representation of the black British experience in popular culture gas such ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Boyega stimulated specific comments in a Radio Times interview where he discussed his future plans to create work about black life in Britain, partly as a result of having to explain to Americans that black Londoners exist while promoting his   2011 breakthrough cinema <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2011\/may\/12\/attack-the-block-review\">Attack the Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/dec\/05\/john-boyega-ive-met-americans-who-dont-know-black-people-live-in-london\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/dec\/05\/john-boyega-ive-met-americans-who-dont-know-black-people-live-in-london\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment is great chance to open people&rsquo;s eyes, says Star Wars actor The Star Wars actor John Boyega says he has satisfy Americans who are not aware there are black people living in London, and believes the under-representation of the black British experience in popular culture gas such ignorance. Boyega stimulated specific comments in a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1573,20363,1920,1700,15608,20364,15607],"class_list":["post-35661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-film","tag-john-boyega","tag-london","tag-race","tag-society","tag-steve-mcqueen","tag-uk-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/35001575687787.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}