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 “I feel a bit nervous,” confesses John Boyega, as he sits down in front of the camera.
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October 4, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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’
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Excerpt from The Guardian Lifestyle.