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Idris Elba had reservations about Stringer Bell's fate on “The Wire”: 'I was a little bit against some of that'
After 20 years, Idris Elba has come around on the death of his The Wire character Stringer Bell. But when he first got word ...
Idris Elba Was at First ‘Against’ How His ‘The Wire’ Character Died, but Realized It Made a ‘Political Point’
The real-life inspiration for Stringer didn’t meet the same fate (thankfully). “The Wire” is famously based off of former ...
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10 best The Wire episodes that prove it was never just a cop show
The Wire never felt like just another cop show. You see that from the first episode, when a street corner murder feels bigger ...
Idris Elba Says He 'Didn't Watch' His Breakout Project “The Wire”: 'I Feel Bad'
Idris Elba may have made a mark with his role on The Wire, but that doesn’t mean he watched the show. The 52-year-old English ...
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Why Idris Elba refuses to revisit his past in ‘The Wire’
Idris Elba has insisted he will never watch “The Wire.” The critically acclaimed series is often ranked among the greatest ...
Despite playing one of TV's most iconic villains, Idris Elba reveals why he will never watch The Wire: "It's weird for me to go back and watch it"
Elba played erudite but cold-hearted gangster Stringer Bell in three seasons of The Wire, one of the leaders of the drug ring ...
Idris Elba reveals shocking revelation about ‘The Wire’
Idris Elba rose to fame on the acclaimed HBO crime drama “The Wire,” but he recently made a shocking admission: he’s never ...
17 awful performances by great actors, from Tom Hanks to Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep and Tom Hardy feature on this list by Louis Chilton, of brilliant acting talents who at one ...
Why MAGA can’t let go of the “Epstein files”
It’s weird that MAGA is so fixated on this. If such a list existed — and let me reiterate, it does not — there is one person ...
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Idris Elba reveals shocking revelation about ‘The Wire’
Stringer Bell isn’t tuning in. Idris Elba rose to fame on the acclaimed HBO crime drama “The Wire,” but he recently made a shocking admission: he’s never seen the show, and refuses to ...
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Besides selling weed, Idris Elba worked this ‘grim’ factory job before he became famous
He is best known for playing Nelson Mandela in the biographical film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) and drug trafficker ...