PIC 1: “You’re hungover and pop to the shops in your dressing gown, only to bump into a ridiculously hot woman…”
PIC 2: “You’re the devoted father of six-year-old twins, watching as they forget their lines in their first school play…”
Idris Elba, Bafta Nominees 2011 photoshoot
Idris Elba, photographed by Leo Cackett ©
She concedes that she was excited to work with Idris Elba. “I loved The Wire and I thought: wouldn’t it be great to work with Stringer Bell. A year later I was pinching myself.” At their first read-through, Elba told her how much he loved her in Jane Eyre and she immediately called his bluff: “You never watched Jane Eyre!” (X)
Top 50 TV male characters (in alphabetical order)
24) John Luther (Luther)
“I would never be fearful of any character. I think there’s a tendency for actors like myself, and I don’t mean to generalize myself, but I’ve played ‘men’s men,’ if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There’s a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.”
