Despite years of fans pining for him to don 007’s tuxedo and Walther PPK, Idris Elba seriously doubts he’ll ever play James Bond, playfully suggesting the film’s producers have other plans.
While Elba might have solid information suggesting the Bond producers are uninterested, the part where he suggests no one is interested is patently false.
In an interview with Buzzfeed, Elba indicated, with signature grace and humor, that he wasn’t an option the film’s producers were seriously considering.
Elba rose to fame playing everyone’s favorite drug dealer, Stringer Bell, in the critically hailed (but little watched) HBO series The Wire.