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Mar 2023
32m 18s

Idris Elba

WILLIE GEIST, SUNDAY TODAY
About this episode
Lately, when you hear the name Idris Elba, it often comes in the context of speculation about whether he'll be the next James Bond. The actor says it's not happening, and at the moment he's busy playing John Luther, a British crime-solving hero with a slightly harder edge than Bond's. The 50-year-old Elba worked as a young man at the same Ford manufacturing ... Show More
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