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John Boyega tells of ‘life-changing’ friendship with Damilola Taylor
Actor speaks for first time about how 10-year-old’s death in 2000 spurred him and others to ‘aim further’
The actor John Boyega has spoken for the first time of the “life-changing” impact of his friendship with Damilola Taylor and the way his sudden death spurred him and others to “aim further”. Photograph: PA“To be involved in that way, even in passing, makes you feel like you’re inches away from something so tragic,” he said, adding that he wanted “to keep the memory of Damilola Taylor alive because [he] was a funny, very energetic guy that everybody really, really loved in the community”. Damilola had moved to London from Nigeria a few months before he was killed but Boyega said in that time the 10-year-old made a big impression.
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