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Idris Elba

F ANYBODY IS GOING TO FIGHT A LION IN A MOVIE, IT’S GOING TO BE Idris Elsa. And he does exactly that in (August 19). “We’ve put a movie together that feels like a popcorn movie.” Elba plays Dr. Nate Daniels, a (August 31), adapted from a short story in by A.S. Byatt. It was “very different from says Elba. “I don’t like to play one style of film, or one type of character. So it feels quite good to be able to say you can see this, but also you can see this and they’re very, very different. That’s a gift for any actor.”

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