Golden Globes 2021: John Boyega wins greatest supporting actor for ‘Small Axe’

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Actor John Boyega gained his first Golden Globe for greatest efficiency by an actor in a tv supporting function for his work in Steve McQueen’s acclaimed anthology sequence “Small Axe”.

The “Star Wars” alum performed Leroy Logan within the ‘Red, White and Blue’ section of the sequence, concerning the ordeal of a younger black Londoner set on serving to to interrupt the color barrier at London’s Metropolitan Police Force within the early Nineteen Eighties.

Boyega, who made headlines final June for his shifting speech on the Black Lives Matter protest on the UK’s Hyde Park within the wake of George Floyd’s killing within the US, admitted he wasn’t anticipating to win.

“I’m so shocked,” he began his acceptance speech on the digital ceremony.

“I thought it was gonna be one of them nights where…you go to your bed and just chill,” Boyega, 28, quipped as he lifted up his leg to point out his pants.

“I’ve got Balenciagas, guys. I’ve got tracking bottoms on my bottoms that I’m comfortable (in), but this is exciting. ” The actor thanked the Hollywood Foriegn Press Association (HFPA), the physique that conducts the Golden Globes at present going through hearth over its lack of Black illustration amongst its ranks.

Boyega then expressed gratitude to director McQueen and the forged and crew of the miniseries.

“I’m absolutely shocked. I don’t even know what to say,” he mentioned.

The actor’s fellow nominees had been Dan Levy (“Schitt’s Creek”), Brendan Gleeson (“The Comey Rule”), Jim Parsons (“Hollywood”) and Donald Sutherland (“The Undoing”).