Friday, March 4, 2011

Interesting Quote: Idris Elba


"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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5 comments:

Daij said...

I heard about this a couple days ago. He made a couple great points. He's right.

Damien said...

Absolutely - once upon a time all the asians in films were portrayed by Western actors with eye-liner in an asian outline...........

Anonymous said...

Mr Elba will be making a lot of black kids proud.

Todd HellsKitchen said...

Creative casting? LOL

Anonymous said...

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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