“I’m private. I like to keep it that way,” Idris Elba tells Angie Martinez after a fan calls into Hot 97 and asks, “Are you really expecting a baby?” When you’re a man with looks, an accent and play those domineering/take charge characters on the big screen, there is nothing that you could say or do that will be private to the public.
Among other things, Idris goes over the very tiresome, yet rewarding role of playing Nelson Mandela in the up-coming film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Something powerful, I bet. Hit the jump to check out the interview.
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