John Boyega, aka Finn. Boyega also had help from his agent to put him on the path to scoring the role of Finn. Though he got a little attention as the star of the UK sci-fi hit “Attack the Block in 2011, that didn’t really soften his path to getting into “Star Wars,” as he went through seven months of auditions. Boyega has said that to power through the first few, he would go back and watch auditions from the original cast.