"It's so ridiculous. We have a man [Thor] who has a flying hammer and wears horns on his head. And yet me being an actor of African descent playing a Norse god is unbelievable? I mean, Cleopatra was played by Elizabeth Taylor, and Gandhi was played by Ben Kingsley."
Sexy, I mean, Idris talking about the uproar over him playing a Norse God
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I heard about this a couple days ago. He made a couple great points. He's right.
Absolutely - once upon a time all the asians in films were portrayed by Western actors with eye-liner in an asian outline...........
Mr Elba will be making a lot of black kids proud.
Creative casting? LOL
They're not Norse Gods anyway! They're aliens who think they're Norse Gods. That's the way good old Jack chose to interpret it.
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