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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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We give you global superstar Idris Elba. Idris is an award-winning actor, a film director, a producer, a DJ and rapper, entrepreneur, podcaster, UN goodwill ambassador, kickboxer, the list goes on. Suffice to say this is a man who is comfortable with change. Or is he?
In this conversation Idris zooms in on the big changes in his life, being sickly as a child, moving schools, discovering acting, becoming a father, starting therapy, and the bigger changes in his professional life, namely the SAG-AFTRA strikes and how streaming has changed things for working actors. Viva le Idris! Enjoy!
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0:00.0 | Alright everyone, I want you to use your imagination. I want you to lie down on the floor. We're all like |
0:08.1 | lying down on this drama floor. I want you to imagine you're in a frying pan. What, |
0:14.2 | basically, you're frying pan and you're a freshly cracked egg. And I want you to crack |
0:22.5 | cool and pop like a fried egg. There was silence and then there was a couple of people |
0:30.0 | including me that was starting doing all this movement, right? And I lost myself in it. I was |
0:39.0 | a fried egg. I was getting flipped and when I opened my eyes, I looked at half the boys just |
0:44.3 | standing there looking at me again. What are you doing, son? |
0:53.0 | Hello and welcome to Changes. It is Annie Batman. It's here great to have you with us, |
0:57.7 | my guest today. He's a global superstar. He's an award-winning actor, a film director, |
1:03.8 | a producer, a DJ, a rapper, an entrepreneur, a podcaster, a UN goodwill ambassador, |
1:10.4 | a kickboxer. And the list goes on. I am so delighted to welcome to Changes. Idris Elba. |
1:17.4 | Annie, hello, Annie. Do you know what? Honestly, I'm sweating from that list of stuff. I'm like, |
1:24.0 | oh, oh, oh, sweating. How does that make you feel when you hear that? It's just ridiculous. |
1:31.2 | That is the product of an overproductive imagination right there. Only child syndrome on |
1:38.1 | crack. Can I say crack? Yes, you can. You can say wherever you want on this podcast. |
1:43.3 | Well, listen, we should talk about the fact at the very top of this because obviously people will |
1:47.0 | be expecting us to speak about acting and your acting work. And because of the sag after strike, |
1:52.0 | we cannot add a respect to the strikers. But I did want to ask you if it's okay, Idris, about |
1:59.6 | just the nature of that strike. And I suppose if you could give us some kind of context as to how |
2:04.8 | the world has changed for actors with streaming and things like that. I mean, we know streaming |
2:10.0 | has been totally detrimental to the movie industry. It's kind of killed the concept of a linear |
2:15.1 | TV series. But how has it changed things for actors? What's happening is the tech companies that run |
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