The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
From Idris Elba
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.
It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
I tend to stay away from the comics.
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.
It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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