Star Wars author Alan Dean Foster has claimed that Disney told him to remove any traces of a romance he was setting up for Rey and Finn in The Force Awakens.
Continuing to address Disney, Boyega said: “Like, you guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver.
There was obviously the beginnings of a relationship between John Boyega’s character and Daisy Ridley’s character [in Abram’s screenplay for The Force Awakens].
The films later attempted to develop a romance between Finn and Rose Tico, a storyline that was abandoned in The Rise of Skywalker.