John Boyega says when he won his part as Finn in The Force Awakens, he took his co-star Harrison Ford to a popular joint in south London to celebrate
It is a restaurant far, far away from Harrison Ford’s usual Hollywood haunts. But when John Boyega won his part in The Force Awakens, he took his Star Wars co-star to a popular joint in the heart of Peckham to celebrate.
Staff were dumbfounded when Han Solo turned up for dinner at Nigerian restaurant 805 on the Old Kent Road on a quiet Sunday night in September last year, said owner Emmanuel James. “Someone came out the back to see me and was like ‘Harrison Ford’s here’ and I didn’t believe it. Staff were asking each other, ‘are we absolutely sure that’s him?’,” he said.
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