I remember there was talk "Why? Would would you do that? Play gangsters. Play ruthless. Some people don't like the film, but some of the guys that came up to me and said "Yo, I want to see you play gangsters" were the same ones that were in tears because they had either strained relationships with their children, or they loved their children so much and they were watching a character that they could relate to.
I don't mind playing characters that are opposite of what people think I am. For me, it's entertainment. Every single film I've done, it's about the character. I chose these roles, whether it's Obsessed , whether it's The Gospel Not everything is going to be as powerful as some of the more iconic roles. I mean, my two biggest performances to date: One film is called Als das Morden begann , which is a really important film about the Rwandan Genocide, and people don't ever speak about that role, or that film and what it meant to the people of Rwanda.
And I have a film that's out now, a small film called Legacy [he stars as a former black-ops soldier who was captured and tortured, and returns home to struggle with his paranoia and anxiety and a political conspiracy], but not one bit of acclaim.
We actually sent a screener to Roger Ebert this week because he expressed his wish to see it. Not to say he's given his iconic two thumbs up, yet. But I really hope that he does. Michael Moore saw it and loved it. It's a film that critically, in the festival world, has done really well, but again, it's a tiny film and no one wants to write about it because no one really wants to support small-timey films.
This character holes himself up in a room for a week, and in this room, he starts to unravel who he is and where he's been. You start to understand that this is a man who's not very well. And then you realize that you're not sure if some of the things we're seeing are real, and in the end, there's a twist.
I'm so proud of it, because we made it for no money. That's just the kind of actor I am. I'd had three or four years of unemployment, not getting acting jobs. I can be right there with them. If I didn't get it, I was going to leave the US. We knew that if I didn't have acting work after my daughter was born, we would be up shit street. By the way, you know I've never watched The Wire I've seen a full episode at screenings but never at home.
I've never watched an entire season. I've not seen any episode of season two, most of season three and none of seasons four and five. I'm supercritical of my own work. As an actor, if you're being told how wonderful you are, what do you need to strive for?
I don't know if I'm good just because some critic says I am in the press. Some beautiful people always attract attention. I didn't until I got on television. So I'm on these lists only because I'm on television.
It happens to me all the time, still. I'll sit in a pub and nobody will recognize me. I might see an attractive woman, but she doesn't recognize me, so I'm not getting any love. In , he founded Green Door Pictures , a production company with a mission "to champion diversity of thought. In , Elba made his directorial feature debut with Yardie , adapted from a novel about Jamaican gangsters in s Hackney that became a cult classic when it was published in Elba read the book in his 20s, and although his heritage is African-British, he connected with the setting, especially since the main character was also involved in the DJ scene.
It took four or five years to make Yardie , but despite the slog, Elba has plans to direct again. The weird feeling is being the guy that's first in and last out and answering the questions and having that patience.
Then you're months in a dark room, trying to create magic from what you've got," he told The Guardian. But his ultimate ambition, he told Luxury London , is, "To direct a film in which I'm playing, and do the score on top of it.
The idea that Elba should take over as James Bond when Daniel Craig finally retires from the role has been around since at least It's become even more popular since Craig started making it clear that he's done being the world's most famous secret agent. Elba even got in on the fun — at least initially.
In an interview with Vanity Fair in , he said that although he found the opportunity to play Bond fascinating, the racist backlash that followed even the suggestion that he could play the previously always-white character understandably put him off. That's a difficult position to put myself into when I don't need to," he said.
In , he supported a woman taking the role, so he's probably happy that Lashana Lynch will be the first female In , during protests over yet another Oscar nomination list packed with white filmmakers, Elba made a speech to the UK Parliament, calling for MPs to work on diversifying British film and TV. The minute clip was shared 10 million times on social media within 24 hours. In the speech , Elba explained that the parts he'd been offered as a young Black actor in Britain were one-dimensional stereotypes.
He said, "When a script called for a 'Black male', it wasn't describing a character. It was describing a skin color. A white man My eyes may be dark, but they definitely twinkle! I knew there wasn't enough imagination in the industry for me to be seen as a lead," he said. Elba pointed out that other underrepresented groups face the same problem, including disabled people, gay people, and women. Women directors are seen as a commercial risk.
Disabled directors aren't even seen at all," he said. To help change this, he asked MPs to "get all commissioners and content creators to think about diversifying at the beginning of the creative process, not the end. Being ahead of the crowd isn't always a good thing. He said he self-quarantined immediately. As a refresher, that was just five days after the World Health Organization officially declared that the world was experiencing a pandemic. Just days later, his wife confirmed that she'd also tested positive.
Even less was known about the outcomes and symptoms of the disease in those very early days. Elba later said that although he and his wife thankfully didn't get symptoms, the lack of information was tough on their mental health. In July, he told Radio Times , "I was asymptomatic.
So, therefore, on that scale, not bad. Mentally, it hit me very bad, because a lot was unknown about it. So the mental impact of that on both myself and my wife was pretty, ah, traumatic. I needed the lockdown to try to get over it. After recovering, the couple became U. Idris Elba could've gone into manual labor.
He was inspired to act by drama class and Robert De Niro. Idris Elba's first passion is music. Idris Elba has been given citizenship of his father's native Sierra Leone. The British film star landed in the capital Freetown on Wednesday for his first visit to the country. As part of that commitment, the Avengers actor said that he wanted to invest in developing tourism, but also spoke about boosting the entertainment industry. Africa can house my ambition, I can create another Disney here [and] I can't do that in America.
Elba was born in London in September His late father grew up in Sierra Leone, and his mother is from Ghana. The star, who was named People magazine's "sexiest man alive" in , is best known for his work in Marvel films, including the Avengers, as well as for the lead role in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. He also starred in a Netflix movie about child soldiers, Beasts of No Nation, which was filmed in Ghana.
Sierra Leone was hit hard by a civil war between and , and between and nearly 4, people died in an Ebola outbreak which also damaged the economy.
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