I think we will see that, and I think that's good."Įlba, who shot to fame as the erudite and thoughtful gangster Stringer Bell in critically acclaimed US television serial The Wire, also used his interview with TV Times to warn viewers against pigeonholing his new BBC crime drama, Luther, just because it was about a black policeman. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. "If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go.
"I was cast in Thor and I'm cast as a Nordic god," he said.
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That's OK, but the colour of my skin is wrong? "Hang about, Thor's mythical, right? Thor has a hammer that flies to him when he clicks his fingers. "There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?" he told TV Times. I wouldn't expect to see many Brad Pitt types walking around in the Black Panther's Wakanda Palace!"Įlba, who was born in Hackney, north-east London, to a Ghanaian mother and Sierra Leonean father, has addressed such concerns in a string of recent interviews. "Asgard is home to the Norse Gods!!! Not too many un-fair complexion types roaming the frigid waste lands up there. "At the risk of sounding like a bigot, I think this is nuts!" said another. It's about respecting the integrity of the source material, both comics and Norse mythologies."įellow fans were quick to nod their horn-helmeted heads. "Norse deities are not of an African ethnicity! … It's the principle of the matter.
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"This PC crap has gone too far!" wailed one. His view was not shared among the more vehement of the comic books' fans. And at the beginning of the month, he told a press conference that he saw his casting as an encouraging step. When news emerged late last year that the 37-year-old black Londoner had been chosen to play Heimdall, "the whitest of the gods", a being who can hear the sap flowing in trees and look across time and space, many devotees of the Marvel comics on which the film is based flocked to online forums to weep, gnash their teeth and unleash a tide of indignation.Ī fortnight ago, the actor told Jonathan Ross that his take on Heimdall was "Norse by way of Hackney, Canning Town". Even for an actor who has played a vampire-hunter with a guilty conscience, a Baltimore crime lord with a taste for Adam Smith, and an asset manager with a stalker, the role of the Norse deity Heimdall – guardian of the burning rainbow bridge between the world of men and the world of gods – was always going to be a bit of a challenge.īut playing a god in Kenneth Branagh's forthcoming film Thor has turned out to be the least of Idris Elba's worries, after fans of the comic books turned on the star of The Wire for reasons that have nothing to do with his acting ability and everything to do with the colour of his skin.
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