Monday, July 15, 2013

A Minute With: Idris Elba on 'Pacific Rim' and playing Mandela

Cast members Charlie Day, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Hunnam, Robert Kazinsky, Diego Klattenhoff and Ron Perlman pose at the premiere of "Pacific Rim" at Dolby theatre in Hollywood By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British actor Idris Elba may be best known as an enterprising Baltimore drug lord on the HBO series "The Wire," but he has a growing presence in sci-fi films and will play South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela in his first biopic. Elba, who starred in 2011's action-adventure "Thor" and 2012 sci-fi film "Prometheus," will next be seen as a general in Guillermo del Toro's epic sci-fi disaster film "Pacific Rim," out in U.S. theaters on Friday. ...








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