00:00All right
00:02Who is this Idris guy? He's been about hey, what's up?
00:05My name is Idris Elba and these are the biggest roles of my career. This is roll call
00:19All right cool here goes I'm just gonna pull out one of these DVDs whoa
00:24Dun dun dun
00:27This is the wire nah, man. We done worrying about territory man. What corner? We got what project
00:34Game ain't about that no more. It's about product stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale. These are all
00:40Fictional characters, but they were based on real people and so there was a real sort of sense of being attached to
00:46The myth of these real characters. There's a lot of actors from New York from DC from Baltimore that are real people
00:52We were in real neighborhoods with real people
00:56People would come past the cameras and then end up in the film because they were there on the day
01:02So that sort of you know fusion between acting and reality was kind of slim a lot of the times
01:08All right
01:11Mm-hmm Mandela
01:13Long walk to freedom. I have cherished the ideal of a free
01:17democratic society where all persons live together in harmony with equal opportunities
01:25Long walk to freedom was the real
01:27Life-changing role for me. I went to
01:31Stay a night in
01:33Robyn Island and they put me in a cell and I said now I want you guys to just leave me here for the whole night
01:39Shut the door
01:41There's one night. It was terrifying obviously, but it was just like wow
01:45Wow, my guy was here for like 20 years still came out as a champion
01:53Put that down gently. Here we go. This is a lot of fun guys. Oh, wow
01:58You don't went in yeah talk about extremes. Okay. This is called beast of no nation nation nation
02:04Young men
02:06Well
02:07We will not wait to inherit any well
02:10Huh? We will not wait for them to come and give it to us. We are going to take it
02:18Yes, sir
02:19We're going to take it from them. Yes
02:22Essentially this was a fictional West African country. I sort of went for a
02:27West African general, but it was definitely influenced by where my parents are from my dad
02:32I'm Sierra Leone the commandant is a
02:35very twisted
02:38Conflicted human being he would sort of have this commands that he would use to sort of almost hypnotize those young soldiers
02:46The story is a loosely based around civil war of Sierra Leone and Liberia
02:51And I'm one of these actors that really sort of absorb my character absorb their experiences
02:56So I can understand a little bit I had to watch hours and read of stuff that was just so disturbing my
03:04Nightmares were varied. You know, it's like it was even me in these nightmares or it was commandant
03:11Or there's all this vivid imagery that I was exposed to
03:14When you go to a dark place like that for a project, what do you have to do to claw yourself out of it afterwards?
03:20Uh, can I be honest? At the time I was smoking a lot of weed and that would get me out of that
03:29Cheese
03:32The Suicide Squad Squad Squad Squad Squad
03:35To get me to lead your mission, you're gonna send my 14 year old daughter to prison?
03:39No
03:41Your daughter is 16 Dubois
03:44Your real father of the year
03:46James Gunn is a genius
03:48I never forget that the first day when he brought us all in and he was like, okay guys, I'm gonna show you the movie
03:55What? No, we're gonna read the movie, but I'm gonna show you what I'm thinking as we're doing it. Oh, okay, great
03:59He hand draws all of his scenes. He does all these really intricate drawings
04:05I mean, no disrespect James, but they're not great art, but they tell you what the shot is gonna be
04:10So we would be like reading reading reading and he'd be like okay cut stop stop stop watch the screen
04:15And then we'd be watching this sort of like
04:18Hodgepodge of drawings and some some visuals from another movie and he'd cut it together in a way that you were like wow
04:26Yeah, that's what's gonna look like. That's great. And then we're back to reading
04:32Can you guess what this is knuckles
04:35We didn't have a real sort of sense of what he sounds like so we decided to play with a few different voices
04:52Do you want to hear do you want to hear my first attempt at knuckles
04:56So you can see what happened there where we said no no to that one
05:06We got rid of him and then we ended up somewhere here
05:10But that also sounded a bit like Heimdall
05:12So we clawed back on that a little bit and then we made knuckles knuckles
05:15I did play the sega sonic games on I think you guys called the sega genesis
05:21We called a sega mega drive with the car trick
05:24My son is a fan of knuckles and sonic but of course more knuckles
05:29All right, here we go
05:36Hobbs and Shaw
05:37It's a lot of fun. It's great. I mean, I love making action films and I love doing fighting stuff
05:41You know these two big
05:43Action stars and little old Brixton
05:46What's the problem boys? Does it hurt?
05:49Must be hard being so
05:52Human
05:55Believe it or not, I made a song for the album
05:57With none other than cypress hill what I hear you say yes
06:02It was in la actually and we spent like two days in the studio
06:07They heard the song we came in we wrote it together. We recorded it. It was a lot of fun, man
06:11Big up cypress hill. We need to bring brixton law back
06:17All right, here's the next project ladies and gentlemen
06:20Thor and I played a little guy here called heimdall
06:24Heimdall may we pass
06:27As an enemy slipped my watch until this day
06:34I wish to know how that happened
06:35These
06:37Are not my real color eyes. I think in the beginning there was this very different approach to the marvel landscape to being as guardian
06:46And by the end there's a very different tone to the approach
06:50And I think the fan base tripled in size by the last movie I did
06:59Getting more and more complicated
07:00Okay
07:01Luther the fallen son
07:03It's like looking at an old mate, you know
07:06I've been playing and wearing that coat for a long time
07:09He's got something under his coat
07:14It's not right is it when I first did john luther
07:17I had lived in america for a long time and and I moved back to england and this is the first role
07:24I did my dad was getting really ill and I had so much sort of fear
07:30About losing my dad and pain and it all sort of manifested in
07:34In this performance in this guy. I was here to make an arrest
07:41Sugar mum was armed
07:43All right, you thought my life was an imminent danger when you took appropriate action
07:47All righty
07:49Oh
07:50Ladies and gentlemen the office
07:51You know, I just want to address everyone first
07:54Oh, yeah, take your time stanley pay attention. Hi everyone. Hi
07:59Hi
08:00Uh, look it's no secret. Hi
08:03They were always trying to make me laugh. It was all the time
08:06Especially john krasinski. What is a two-way petting zoo?
08:12You pet the animals they pet you back trying to keep a straight face while i'm doing my lines
08:17Someone else would make another sound over here. I mean it was it was a lot of work. I am a fan of cringe comedy
08:23I like dad jokes. I like dad jokes because they make people go
08:27cringe you know what I mean
08:30That's my sense of humor. Did michael just let anybody in his office?
08:35Yes
08:40I am aware of the effect I have on women all right the office
08:44All right
08:47Who is this idris guy? He's been about
08:50The dark tower
08:51Oh, no
08:53Faris, can you fix it? We have spare parts in the village
09:00Jacob
09:01Go find somewhere close to hide. I do not know if there are plans for more dark tower movies. There should be though
09:07It's an incredible series. It's debatable whether they'll have me back, but I loved playing my guy
09:14You know you have starters you have mains you have dessert you know you have a menu and I think the menu is important
09:22I do think that there's more agility and more opportunity and smaller stories, but
09:28There's nothing like being in front of a huge spectacle of a movie. So for me. It's a healthy menu
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