How a young Idris Elba almost scammed his way to Robert De Niro in the ’90s: “I got kicked out”
Wanted an audience with a mob movie legend.
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The 1980s actor Anthony Mackie based his entire career on: “Whatever you did, I want to do that”
An inspiration from an early age.
Is Idris Elba the first actor to play the British prime minister and American president in the same year?
Only one other actor comes close
The TV series that will never be bettered, according to Stephen King: “Hasn’t aged a day”
“Never too smart for its own good.”
Winona Ryder’s favourite TV show of all time: “I’ve watched it hundreds of times”
Ryder was just as obsessed with this seminal crime drama as the rest of us.
