Actor Idris Elba describes how he approached the movie "Yardie" as a first-time director and chats about his film role in "The Mountain Between Us."
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Thank you for a week ago said you do anything special. No, I didn't
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Legs is working out. How are you gonna come on this, but I was led some of you. I told you I was gonna. Do that right. Drunken man thing, I'm working on a scale, its new wealth of yellow travel. Look,
All these guys, you said to me more like you, can you can be anything that could be anything before we before we talk about the months between us this. Let's talk about some of the other work doing you just completed your directory old, debut, yet making a first
Congratulations, you look like you're, an esteemed actor. What's it like when you, you have no control in the scene, but you have control over the senior May. It was amazing. It was amazing. I mean
like I've, been working for a long time of words, really scar game right. Our tourism really fantastic directives, but I never got to use the language they use which, as you know, the three sixty language of making film.
Cut an actual rain and actually was reared. Is I never got to say or action right on? This will know it, because the first idea would say so I'll be like and sharp side, and it was I constantly he did. Abandonment got used to that, but just just
I do in being able to sort of constructs film, right and and and all this stuff, that I learn as an actor. I can use it in directing the farmers incredible, I loved it.
He loved it. It's a story based in London. I mean inspired from Jamaica, it's a phone call, the ADI, you, you said you and you're making it because it touching you two passions and let us form and music. What's the story of the film, and why is it form and music cases at its base in a book that was pretty popular in the eighties Claudia?
the innocent novel. One is about young kid from Jamaica who ends up in London in the mid early eighties and in the early eighties back then, you know there was a real sort of war between. You know, jamaican immigrants and police right adjusting get along. So basically, this stories about this kid who follows his passion to be a dj comes to London ends up becoming a gangster, an expanse of nineteen. Seventy two to nineteen. Eighty three, which is when I was born my first ten years of livestock, Adam, really relate to it and you and your dj as while some
that's that's part of your vibe humbly gigs jubilee this year I did a ten year ten year, ten out, that's a long, long geisha! I don't. We love you injures, but this is July. Did I contend, attended toward issue right next year and in the longer term a loved Egypt is? Is there anybody who only knows years a dj
and has no clear, as I give you gonna movie, what movie together
it's on my life, really young kids, you know like you're gonna go, go just seeing this thing
struble? What's that, and you know like the greatest a series of all time
While it is arguable that might prefer this talk about the film the mountain between us. I do want to give away much in the film, but it is a story that is set. We see it in the trailer. Some are giving too much weight, plane crash yourself and Kate winds. Let's play that these two people who are flying on a tiny little plain that crashes and then you begin the journey of survived minutes. It's a simple story really is about survival, is about trust and is about to be without
very, very different, who discovered themselves and very different approaches to survival, and indeed discovery sell themselves. And then you know eventually, you know they make whoop and then
What are you saying? What? What are you saying is that they, the meagre musical instruments that God knows, boilers but its resolve story right. So you know, I think, actually, in this day and age and film making films a great way to express an idea, and I think we need films that express love that we really do. I describe this point. This movie is about that. It's about the DE parodist journey to towards trot.
When you don't know someone and then of course you know you, don't you put a man, a black man in minus thirty, eight
jobs. Are going to happen
just a movie about a black men fighting. So it is
I really enjoy making it honey, Abu Assad who directed Paradise lost and, amongst a phenomenal pal,
the writer. You know I just bought a simplicity too.
We shut it in Canada, in investment in minus thirty. Eight right- and you know there is no green screen. I mean it was real and Kate. Winslet she's, a pro read a goddess of an actor, and we had a great time. You you, you used the word simplicity over and over again, and in many ways is a simple story, but I found that it. It was what added to the complexity of the journey. These are two people and it's not a journey about a crash. It's not just the journey about your people stranded. It felt like it was the ultimate journey of which side of humanity
we we use, you know, is the logical sidelined or is it the heart because you have to people who are stranded Goya? What's the logic of being free or like finding like finding you no help rescue and what is the of side of hunt which do you think you more of in real life? Are you address the thinker or you address the hot?
I think a lot. I definitely think a lot, but I think when I move, I move in my heart and guts right and it turns out that you have half as many
new on the lead him. No one talks about harvest may offers many new ones in your stomach in the line of Yo Yo in testing that you do in your brain, so that feeling that you call the gut existing, really the synopsis happening and it
It is an emotional reaction when you feel something you feeding a stomach is and in your brain, does the thinking based on logic in memory, in order that got tells you ever. It fills gonna, not as a true story guys.
I don't know, I don't know, I don't trust me now. I don't know I you know I I will say this: I've seen you act in many different roles. We ve seen Idris
the gangster we ve seen address the God. You know in thought we ve seen address the policeman Luther. We haven't really seen a lot of interests, just the dashing leading man,
we'll just very handsome la punching anything or anyone friend like cats? Are you so like? I went to watch the movie with a woman, and then I will. I didn't appreciate,
you being a sexy, as you were, because it's not like the nicest next summer, who'd the whole time in the movies just like, like, I hope you will choke on this popcorn address will have to come and save them was a different way. You playing like this topic is its subtle, and it's really beautiful and you, madam,
seeing the story. Thanks
we ve never seen before thanks man
There's a compliment I do very much. I mean you know that the truth of the matter is the film was designed to me to be sexy right. You know I'd think, though, the summing up something beautiful about to people that fall in love in the face of adversity, right, hold.
Now that you know and and bone in and button,
There is something beautiful about you noticed simplicity and this in your right. I play of extreme characters. This is an industry. Carriages very is it is it is a brain surgeon actually
rights, Z, dear no, I've jogging about he's a razor,
and you know, he's no survivalist rights rights. You know she
the survival is in the movie by his logic, gets them to a certain point and hug heart gets them to some point before I let you go. What what are you excited about coming up in the future? You directing your
thing: you are fighting all over the world. What motivated the rest, yeah there's the amount.
Really truly endurance and comedy Madame and windows.
Commissioner, are you serious
No, I mean you have to say I'm looking forward to an interest.
Look. I didn't. I was like Happy Suez likely you. Why are you coming to my house? That's like now.
I didn't mean it like that actually know. Next year I shouldn't really say bottom doing to show that Sir surrounded by digital rights and security
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