A frightening twist. Idris Elba believed he had genuinely been shot by costar Denzel Washington while working on Ridley Scott‘s American Gangster.
06.11.2021 - 22:51 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Hollywood star Idris Elba was in Glasgow earlier on Saturday to attend an event at the COP26 climate summit.
The 49-year-old is best known for blockbuster hits like Thor, American Gangster and Prometheus and spoke today at the SEC campus alongside actor wife Sabrina Elba.
Idris has been tipped to be the next James Bond for years now, and is one of the many famous faces to have arrived in Glasgow for the climate summit, with others including Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio.
Both Idris and wife
A frightening twist. Idris Elba believed he had genuinely been shot by costar Denzel Washington while working on Ridley Scott‘s American Gangster.
Ridley Scott revealed Idris Elba had a terrifying moment while shooting “American Gangster”.
American Gangster, according to director Ridley Scott.The actor played a dealer called Tango in the 2007 crime film, alongside Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe and Chiwetel Ejiofor.Speaking to MailOnline, Scott recalled a scene where Frank Lucas (Washington) puts a gun against the forehead of Tango (Elba), explaining that the weapon used on set had a solid filled-in barrel with no bullets or blanks in it.To provoke a realistic reaction from Elba, Scott told the actor to lean his head against the
late actor John Erik Hexum, who died after discharging a blank pistol against his temple as a gag in 1984.“I said to Idris, ‘Listen, when he puts the gun to your head, lean on the gun,'” the Oscar-winning “Alien” director told the Daily Mail. “Because, by the way, this is a gun with a solid barrel, there is no aperture, I would never risk it — but when you pull the trigger, there’s no blank, nothing.”Elba heeded Scott’s direction, and Washington “pulled the trigger and it goes bang.
performed songs from her new album, 30, and older tracks to an A-list crowd including Dame Emma Thompson and her husband Greg Wise, Years And Years star Olly Alexander and Boy George at the London Palladium. Model Naomi Campbell, actors Samuel L.
Idris Elba is reportedly in talks to star in the next James Bond film, however it looks like the Luther star won’t be playing the titular character.It had previously been rumoured that the actor was going to take on the role of 007 following Daniel Craig’s recent departure from the franchise, although last month he insisted that he wouldn’t be taking on the role of the super spy.He told ITV London at the premiere for Netflix film The Harder They Fall: “No, I’m not going to be James Bond.”Now,
In the race to find out who is going to play the new James Bond after the end of Daniel Craig’s run as the superspy, we have fan-favorites such as Idris Elba, Henry Cavill, and Tom Hardy. But lately, some other actors have been thrown into the discussion, such as the young Tom Holland and the very American (and very muscly) Dwayne Johnson.
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Greta Thunberg has taken aim at world leaders, calling the COP26 summit a “failure” on November 5, while leading a youth protest outside the venue of the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. “It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve the crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place,” she said.