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| Idris Elba |
When the Sony hack haemorrhaged damning emails from execs
arguing over whether Idris Elba should play the iconic spy-cum-seducer of women
James Bond, everyone had an opinion, some uglier than other.
Anthony Horowitz said that Elba was “too street” to play
Bond, surely the phrase that will haunt him the rest of his career; Elba
casually brushed aside the slight with a suave Instagram saying, “Always keep
smiling!! It takes no energy and never hurts! Learned that from the street!!”
with a smiley face emoji at the end. Since then, everyone has either campaigned
for Elba or against him, but Elba himself has remained oddly mum. Now, in an
interview with the Telegraph, he says, “Enough is enough.” He’s simply done
talking about James Bond:
It’s 30 minutes and three seconds into my interview with
Idris Elba when the “B” word is first used. “Can we talk about the media
obsession with you playing James Bond?” I ask him. “Can we not?” he says forcefully.
Why not? “Because it feels like I’m campaigning, and I’m
not. At first it was harmless – oh, I know, wouldn’t it be great? – and now
it’s started off racial debates. I’m probably the most famous Bond actor in the
world, and I’ve not even played the role. Enough is enough. I can’t talk about
it any more.”
Elba also didn’t want to discuss discrimination in the film
industry: “As soon as you say discrimination, you’re planting seeds over and
over again. I don’t want to be called a black actor. You’ve got a generation of
people who just want to move forward, not keep going on about the past.”
He did, however, happily discuss how he DJed Madonna’s show
in in Berlin: “I didn’t feel pressure until I was standing behind a massive
curtain, next to two big images of her face, and beyond that curtain were
17,000 people and my turntable, and I was like, oh right, yes, Ma-donna.”
So while we won’t see Elba don the moniker of Bond, we may
see him spinning records for the material girl again. “Donna. Ma-donna.”
Source: Vulture.com
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