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
Idris Elba admitted having coronavirus was very sobering
The Mountain Between Us actor and his wife Sabrina Dhowre Elba were among the first high-profile names to be diagnosed with the virus at the start of the pandemic last year and although the pair only had mild symptoms, the 48-year-old star admitted it was a traumatic time as he was deemed high risk because he has asthma and so little was known about COVID-19 at the time 17 July 2021
He told the Evening Standard newspaper: Facing my mortality, being diagnosed with Covid and not knowing what it was at the time - going through that was very sobering.
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The Thor actor didn t receive approval from his mother-in-law at first because her daughter abandoned plan to study law in order to pursue romance with him. Dec 31, 2020
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Idris Elba s now-mother-in-law feared her model daughter was making a huge mistake by moving to the U.K. after falling head over heels in love with the British actor.
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At the time, the beauty had been preparing to study law, but she abandoned her plans in a bid to pursue her romance with Elba - much to her mum s disapproval.