British - Actor | September 6, 1972 -
I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
Idris Elba
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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