John Boyega ‘blown away’ by script for tragic bank heist film ‘Breaking’
John Boyega has recalled being “blown away” by the script for his social injustice bank heist film ‘Breaking’. The Star Wars actor, 31, played real-life depressed US Marine Corps veteran Brian Brown-Easley in the 2022 movie, who calmly walked into a Wells Fargo branch in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2017 and threatened to set off the bomb he claimed was in his backpack unless he was paid $892 he was owed in disability benefits that had been brutally cut off in a bureaucratic move which plunged him into poverty. Boyega told NME about loving the script, co-written by the film’s first-time feature direct...