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Idris Elba discussed "Turn Up Charlie", children and being a DJ with Essence Staff Writer Britni Danielle.
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00:00Do you want me to sing it to you?
00:01Sure.
00:01No?
00:02Why not?
00:03Get it?
00:04This is Essence.
00:05Come on.
00:06Okay, I'll never live it down.
00:09To come back and see me.
00:12Woo!
00:14You need love, baby.
00:17We'll take it.
00:23Clearly, you and Charlie are both DJs.
00:26Aside from that, Big Drews, what do you have in common
00:29with your character?
00:31I think Charlie and I are having comments that we're dreamers.
00:34You know, like, people that just sit on that ambition ladder
00:38all the time going, oh, I want to do that.
00:40I want to get there.
00:41Can't sit still kind of people.
00:42I'm Charlie.
00:43That was a massive deal.
00:45Oh.
00:46Charlie.
00:47What are you doing?
00:48Don't hit the noise down.
00:50It's all right.
00:51I want to talk to you about a job.
00:52Yes!
00:53A nanny.
00:54You want me to be a nanny?
00:56Charlie is a bit more of a man-child than I am.
00:59I'm getting up there with the maturity, I like to say.
01:02I'm getting old.
01:03But Charlie, he doesn't want to accept that.
01:06You know, he's still a man-child.
01:08But I think Charlie and I both, you know, it's evident
01:12that even though he says, I don't do kids, he likes kids
01:16and he can connect with children.
01:17And I love my children and I'm good with kids, too.
01:19So I think there's a commonality there.
01:21And my upbringing is very much the barometer for bringing
01:25up my children.
01:26I wouldn't say I was as strict as my parents,
01:28but I'm definitely like, listen, you know,
01:30there are guidelines.
01:31There are, you know, when daddy says, hey,
01:34you know what that means.
01:35And so I also, though, for me, it's important to be my
01:39children's friend, that they feel comfortable to be
01:42able to speak to me, have fun with me.
01:44We laugh.
01:46My children and I, it's real important that, you know,
01:48they can feel, they can have a sense of humor with me.
01:51This industry is tough on families, you know, it is
01:54really hard.
01:55You do spend lots of time away.
01:57But then there is, you know, there's a normalization of
02:00that.
02:01My children understand it.
02:02They get to see their dad when they see him.
02:04And they know the environment, my work environment.
02:08I don't shun them away from that, so they understand.
02:14I don't.
02:16I don't do a lie.
02:18I don't do a lie.
02:19They are hard and loved.
02:22I became a great.
02:26I love you.
02:28Bye everybody.
02:29Bye everybody.
02:36Bye.
02:36Bye.
02:39Bye.
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