âCreativityâs a real balancer for me.â Photograph: Art Streiber
The actor was working as a bouncer when he got a small part in a new show called The Wire. Two decades on, heâs a blockbuster fixture. The Suicide Squad star talks about fighting for his big break, losing his dad, and why acting helped him out of a âdark, weird junctionâ
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âI appreciate my quiet time, I really do,â Idris Elba tells me, âbut I didnât choose a career in quiet time.â At 48, his life seems relentlessly full of activity, projects, causes, releases. Heâs the star of an imminent summer blockbuster, The Suicide Squad. Heâs a rapper who releases music online at a rate of about a track a month. He hosts a podcast. Heâs just released a new line of T-shirts. Earlier in 2021, Elba signed a deal with HarperCollins to write childrenâs books. He and his wife, the Canadian mode
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Audacious and sweeping : Prosecutors say Trump Org kept records of tax dodge scheme
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