John Boyega gave his all during the audition process for Star Wars: Th🌃e Force Awakens &nd🤡ash; and that apparently included almost all his money.

The British actor, who was ultimately cast as stormtrooper-turned-rebel Finn in the popular sci-fi franchise, recently recalled how he got the role during a𒉰 panel at the Chicago Comic & Entertaꦏinment Expo last Saturday. "I had been auditioning for so long, so I felt like he kind of took away my dignity a little bit," Boyega told the audience (via ), saying he will "never forget the day" director J.J. Abrams broke the news to him.

"I decided to pretend as if I was busy, you know, when you just pretend that you're busy. 'I got other stuff to do, J.J..' He goes, 'Where are you?' And I said 'I'm at this art show in Greenwich, mate. I'm very, very busy. Where are you?' He goes, 'Well, I'm in Mayfair a🍒nd [at a] restaurant. Need to talk to you now. And we'll ♔talk about something important.' And I go, 'Okay, okay, I'm gonna be right there.'

"At the time I had £45 in my account. It took £33 and 83p to get to J.J. Do the🐈 math," he explained.

Luckily, Boyega made it to the restaurant to meet Abrams, and that conversation was about to change his life forever. "Each step I took, I was nervous," he remembered. "I was like, 'Okay, cool.' You know, J.J. is a phen♊omenal, niܫce guy, and if he was to tell me I didn't get the part, he would still feed me," he added.

"I sat down and, J.J. just said, 'Thank you so much for coming back. I 💟know we've kind of [st♐rained] you with this amount of auditions.' At that time, I took it upon myself to try and get another audition and go like, 'J.J., please. Look, I can audition again. I can do British, Scottish, Nigerian, whatever. And he goes, 'You're [in Star Wars]'," the actor continued, saying that "everything felt very surreal."

The cherry꧅ on top was writer-director Lawrence Kasdan showing up in the meeting too to tell him that The Force Awakens was going to change his career. "That's the Hollywood s***. 🦂You know what I'm saying?", Boyega told the audience in Chicago.

Kasdan wasn't wrong – although he had been acting professionally for nearly a ꦿdecade, John Boyega jumped to stardom thanks to the 2015 film, which was followed by two sequels, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

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