Here are some photos of Idris Elba running around London yesterday. He actually in character and filming a running scene for A Hundred Streets, which is the same one he’s been doing with Gemma Arterton the past month. I think Idris and Gemma play a married couple with significant issues. Idris was recently in LA for the Emmys, but he left empty-handed because Benedict Cumberbatch won in that category. Idris also has a new film coming out, No Good Deed, with Taraji Henson. To promote the film, he sat down for a lengthy chat with The Daily Mirror – you can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
He doesn’t want to live in LA: “I won’t be moving out here. I don’t want to get into all of that. I don’t want my family growing up here. That isn’t me, it just isn’t. I rented a place on my own in North Hollywood, but the time I spent here was on my own. I’m only here for a few days. For me, it’s work. I’m very happy I’m here but I want to be back at home with my family. I’m in and out on British Airways. I’m going first class but I’d be just as happy not to.”
He doesn’t have Hollywood friends: “I’m not into the whole fame thing. I don’t have celebrity friends. I have the same ones I had from when I was a kid and for me, it’s about my family, it’s about my kids, what is best for them. I love the UK, grew up in East London and I love it there. That’s where my roots will always be.”
Some of this is what English actors have to say in interviews, you know? If they don’t pay lip service to loving Britain, then they’ll be ripped apart in the UK press. Idris actually lived in America, off and on, for years. He lived in New York, New Jersey and he had a home in Georgia for a while too. He wanted to be successful in America and it worked out for him after a while, and then he moved back to London full-time.
Anyway, enjoy the gun show…
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I’ll be your friend, Idris! I’m not famous or rich or anything, we’ll get along like a house on fire. Mmmm, Idris….
I’m with you Ms. Lady. I’m the only friend you need Idris, now come to mama daddy.
I was thinking the same thing. I’ll be your non-famous friend, Idris! : )
–lovely man–really really really
Good lord, just look at him !!! That’s all I got.
I can’t look away!
OMG! Please post warnings in the title that the post will include pictures of Idris Elba in a tight running shirt. I nearly passed out.
Shhh, Shhh, just let me look at you; I’ve had a day and pics of Idris are just what the doctor ordered.
Going to my Happy Place now. OOooooh, Idris….
I agree, Kaiser. He liked America and he also wanted a) the money and b) the fame. And now he’s got it, he can go back to saying home is where the heart is (it probably is, but y’know. Cognitive dissonance. We’re not entirely daft, Idris).
I said all that after I fell off my chair in a faint of desire, you understand. It took a moment or two.
Do you need help getting off the floor? We can send for someone. I’m still unable to stand up, but I managed to stay on the chair.
He really is the world’s hottest man, isn’t he? Plus, has regular need of a ball gag. It’s all good with Idris!
He is hot indeed!
Steaming hot. And now, with the image of a ball gag, even better.
I love Idris, but I have yet to read an interview with him that didn’t make me think, “Shh, just be pretty.”
He may legitimately feel that way now, but Kaiser’s definitely right about that not always being the case.
“Shh, just be pretty.” Funny!!
He does have his same pre-fame friends though. One of his childhood buddies poured the water for his ice bucket challenge on Kimmel.
If your looking for a non-famous side piece….
I don’t like when celebrities like Idris or Kate Winslet make a point in saying the whole: “I’m so normal, I don’t have celebrity friends and I take pride in it”. It’s like they were saying that they are celebrities themselves but they are so above every other celebrity out there and won’t ever deign to be friends with any of them. It’s normal to make friends in your place of work. Emma Thompson always talks about how close she’s been with Kate Winslet and they are like sisters, and then Winslet basically denies it by always talking about how she never gets close with other actors on set because she is so normal and she only has friends from lower middle class. Not to mention her relationship with DiCaprio. Idris’ co-stars from The Wire also talked about their close relationship with him. Even if they simply mean that they don’t go to the Hollywood parties and befriend every Z-lister there is, it’s still sounds like they are degrading their colleagues and put the famewhore label on all other famous people but themselves.
Yeah it does come across a bit like, so none of the people you worked with were worth befriending? No one? Maybe it’s you? I know that’s not really the case but it’s a silly talking point for an interview.
He relies heavily on PR training, you can hear it. That’s fine, he’s an actor, not a deep intellectual ;-). But definitely handsome and talented.
I hate when they do that too. It’s like when Denzel said he doesn’t want any famous friends and I was thinking who is he kidding because everyone knows he’s friends with Julia “Prom Queen of Hollywood” Roberts you can’t get any more movie star than that. So I think it’s all a weird front put on by some to act like they are somehow different from everyone else in Hollyweird.
I’m guessing the guys from The Wire wouldn’t necessarily be thought of as super famous. I *wish* they’d get cast in more parts, but they don’t, beyond David Simon projects, and even then, it’s just Wendell Pierce, Clarke Peters and Khandi Alexander in Treme. Not exactly household names for most people. As far as I’m concerned Michael K. Williams should be in everything and anything, but you barely see him on screen beyond his small part in Boardwalk Empire.
pop that shirt off when you’re running, dude.
for reals! yum yum!
Damn, my morning is awesome now!
I went to a birthday party of a friend of a friend and Idris was there. A guy went up to him and asked for a photo. He said no which is fine, let him enjoy the party. Then my friend took a photo of some other friends and Idris went crazy saying she was trying to get a pic of him. Err no she just wanted a photo of her friend on his birthday and you happen to be in the same room – he wasn’t even in the background! Killed some of my Idris love which is a shame as he’s even finer in person.
Body is nice. I don’t see the appeal with the face.
Between the hot coffee and the pix of Idris, my heart is racing and I feel damp. Swoon
he is so so hot…. i watched The Big C (tv series) season 1 and he is in there and he is so so hot. o m g
+100000
saggy man boobs!
yeah yeah…now: where’s the dong?
Oh please, Idris! *eye roll*
Why is it that celebs talk this bullsh*t AFTER they’ve become certifiably famous. I bet he had a different outlook on fame when he was struggling trying to make it. He was impressed with it back then, I bet.
Totally agree with you, he’s talking because he has a functioning tongue.
Later in life he will be complaining that he didn’t get juicy roles because the big stars would only want to work with their friends, that Hollywood is a an old boys “who knows who club”.
You make friends get known as a nice and friendly person and everybody will want to work with you, you don’t and your Agent becomes your only lifeline in Hollywood.
yum
Gawwd, I think I’m in love. ( Pretend love if hubby reads this 🙂
Damn Idris is fine. His photos just woke me , I don’t need Starbucks this morning, 🙂
Fine, fine,fine, fine fine. Hot Gorgeousness.