Wizkid’s ‘Daddy Yo’ dubbed as official soundtrack of Pacific Rim: Uprising — John Boyega

Wizkid ‘Daddy Yo’ gets to feature on the highly anticipated new movie, Pacific Rim: Uprising as an official soundtrack.

John Boyega, The last Jedi star, who jammed in Nigeria this Christmas holiday, took time to also promote, Pacific Rim which he plays ex-Jaeger pilot, Jake Pentecost (son of Idris Elba’s character, the late Stacker Pentecost), who is given a chance to unite the world and prevent humanity’s extinction.

British-Nigerian actors also dubbed as a producer of the movie took the opportunity to add up Nigerian specks to his character in the movie to give the movie a more Nigerian feel.

Thank you to @filmhouselekki for having me! Decided to pop in after an IMAX screening to meet some hardcore Christmas Day Star Wars fans!I had an amazing time! It was also nice to just talk with you guys and answer your questions. Thank you ! Thank you! Thank you!

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“I actually produced Pacific Rim and what that meant is that there were ways which I could cater the character towards much more of a Nigerian background. I made him Nigerian and we went through a whole process in which we put moments that reflected his culture in the movie.”, he said.

The actor also talked about how he contacted Wizkid for the right to use his song on the movie to give it a more Nigerian touch.

“We contacted Wizkid and we were like ‘we need to use one of your songs for a film’, and so we got ‘Daddy Yo’ on the track of the film.”

Click to ‘Daddy Yo’ below:

By: Farida Yusif / GhKings.Com / Ghana