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shirt and denims, he is tall — 6- foot-2 and change — lean and muscular, with dark, smoldering eyes, smooth ebony skin, and full lips framed by a neatly trimmed mustache and goatee. His look is at once movie-star handsome and warmly familiar, especially to his black fans who see in him the often misdefined black man. He looks like family — a brother or cousin or a dude you grew up with — until he starts speaking. Elba, 37, was born in East Lon- don, the only child of working- class parents from Ghana and Si- erra Leone. As a teenager he joined London’s National Youth Music Theatre and landed bit parts on British television. His father was displeased when Elba announced that he did not want to work with him in the Ford fac- tory and struck out for America to pursue an acting career. As a result of his success in Britain and the United States, El- ba says, his parents are “very proud now, overly so.” “It’s weird because my parents
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he’s done it for a long time and he’s obviously assessed the risk. I would do the same,” he said. “If I was gonna go to jail, I don’t want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I’ll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.” He added: “I’m an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I’m not saying that from an arro- gant standpoint, it’s just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I’m still on it and I won’t stand still. We have, on average, 80 years of our lives to live — 80
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years! Why not go to my grave saying, ‘I did this human experi- ence!’ ” Stringer Bell, the popular
character on “The Wire,” was similarly ambitious. But he was also vicious, charismatic, smart and so silky that he seduced the girlfriend of a man on whom he’d ordered a hit. How was Elba able to portray such a complex char- acter so well? “I can only attribute that to the
writing,” he says. But in person, Elba seems to naturally possess the character’s chill and calculat- ing manner. And he adds: “I guess being menacing is a thing we all have in us, you know.” Elba said he thought Stringer
deserved to die and, profession- ally, he thought it was time for him to move on. “I couldn’t play that character forever and if I’d played it any longer I wouldn’t be able to do what I’m doing now,” he said. “Interestingly enough, it was the pinnacle of my popu- larity as that character, and as I left I got offered lots of work to do other things.” And so he takes advantage of
every opportunity that comes his way and says he enjoys the vari- ety of roles that he’s played. His favorites, so far, he says, have been Capt. Augustin Muganza, a central character in “Sometimes in April,” an HBO film about the Rwandan genocide, and the lead character in the upcoming inde- pendent film “Legacy.” He is par- ticularly excited about that proj- ect because he also is executive producer. The story, written by Nigerian British filmmaker Thomas Ikimi, is about a soldier who appears to be going mad af- ter he returns from a failed co- vert mission. Most of the movie takes place inside a room with a solitary Elba, sweaty and wild- eyed, acting out his mental melt- down. “I like roles . . . that give an op-
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terns. Myself, as a person, I’m so measured, you know what I mean?” He adds: “I guess it’s that
you’ve worked so hard to get somewhere, you just don’t want to blow it off. I envy some of my friends who are musicians and artists, who don’t have to worry about what they wear and what they say.” He ruminates about the bur- den of stardom in a new song he wrote called “Too Black, Too Strong.” Over a mellow, hip-hop flavored beat he raps: “I’m so hot right now, I’m at the devil’s door . . . If I [messed] up now, you and mother wouldn’t love me any- more . . . I wouldn’t be the front page of Essence or Ebony . . . Too black, too strong, too right to be wrong.” He says that it is through his music, which he shares with his fans on his Web page,
driis.com, allows him to speak his mind, rather than those of the charac- ters he plays. Some of the songs are musings with a message “about us as black people, things we should be aware of within ourselves” and some are seduc- tive torch songs. “Yeah, I grew up on great love songs,” he says. Indeed, although he seems to
be everywhere these days, one place he doesn’t show up often is the tabloids. “That’s by design,” says Elba, who is divorced, has an 8-year-old daughter. He says that he is not in a steady relation- ship and as for marriage, “Been there, done that, and I don’t think I’ll be doing that again.” He seems to steer clear of the celeb- rity romance merry-go-round, and although he says he enjoys hanging out with fellow actors during shoots, his closest chums are longtime friends from Eng- land.
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happening in Manchester,” he said. Since moving to the United States almost 10 years ago, Elba said, he has lived in Atlanta, Flor- ida, New York and Los Angeles. “I haven’t settled on one yet,” he said, adding that currently, “I don’t have a fixed abode. I’m still searching.” Well, at least our homeless hunk is not wanting for work. Just last week came the news that Elba had been cast as the new Dr. Alex Cross, hero of the James Patterson novels. The role had been played by Morgan Free- man. Nelson George, a writer and
filmmaker, said Elba’s talent and work ethic have positioned him to take advantage of a genera- tional shift change among big- name black male actors. “There’s a spot for a quality, leading-man- looking black actor,” said George. Denzel Washington, Danny Glov- er, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, the black men who dominated the screen since the 1980s, are aging out of certain types of roles. Elba is “a big enough guy that he can play ac- tion, and he’s well-trained and versatile enough that he can also do comedy like he did on ‘The Of- fice,’ ” George said. “Idris is in a position to have that kind of ca- reer work for the next 15 to 20 years.” It also helps, George adds, that Elba has sex appeal. Except, it’s pointed out, Elba says he doesn’t think he’s a sex symbol, doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. George, laughing, tells about
watching women react to Elba on a flight last month from Mi- ami to New Orleans. George and Elba had attended the American Black Film Festival and were en route to the Essence Music Festi- val.
“I sat behind him in first class and in the course of a 90-minute flight — actually, before the flight, during the flight, after the flight — women, in coach, in first class, the stewardesses, were all over him,” George said. He de- scribed how one particularly ag- gressive fan “elbows me out of the way” and chased after Elba to get his attention. George says it doesn’t matter
whether Elba thinks he’s a sex symbol. “I’ve seen how the wom- en behave, I’ve heard the con- versations . . . He doesn’t have to understand it. Either you’re sexy or you’re not.”
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