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burnhamandtilly:

Attack The Block (2011) // Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) // Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) // Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

@littleflyingfuckwits funny, I don’t see anyone trying to downplay Nathan Fillion or David Tennant’s role as a scifi icon to this day.

Fillion starred in one SciFi property. Two if you count the Halo game voice work. He’s been everywhere in cameos because one small franchise made him a scifi icon, and you’re bothered John Boyega is being pedestaled for starring in three sci fi properties?

Same with David Tennant. Starred in one major sci fi property, became a big name, has continued a prolific and respected career outside of the genre – he’s no flavor of the month as you imply.

If we’re comparing Boyega to white actors, why not Chris Pratt, one of the few other actors today who has starred in three sci fi properties, including two major franchises. Why not Harrison Ford, who led two major franchises in the ‘80s plus starred in Blade Runner? Why not Sir Ian McKellen?

And Will Smith (who “isn’t even a white dude”) is an odd oversight, considering he’s one of the few actors, period, to have such a sizeable scifi filmography. Naming Nathan Fillion, a one-scifi-hit wonder who wound up on a cheesy TV crime procedural with the occasional sitcom guest spot, and not Will Smith, Boyega’s obvious predecessor in breaking the scifi barrier, just looks bitter, like you’re rooting for John to be an actor who never really catches on as an A-level star.