Heads of State premiered recently on Amazon Prime featuring John Cena and Idris Elba. This seems like a perfect moment to look back on other roles Elba has done that you can enjoy with your library card.
Whenever this show comes up, it never fails to elicit a reaction of incredulity between its strong fanbase and the uninitiated. Find some time and join those of us who have already fallen under its spell.
Check out Lavelle's post on why its absolutely worthy of your time.
The Game is the Game
Idris Elba is an English actor. Many people (including myself) didn't discover this until they watched Luther.
Idris reached an American audience with The Wire, but DCI Luther is the character that made you love him. Putting away bad guys, becoming best friends with a killer and struggling to put his marriage back together sounds like the polar opposite of Stringer Bell.
Check out Elba's range between these two very different roles.
If you love the Fast and Furious franchise but want a smaller crew to keep track of, the powers that be heard you.
Hobbs and Shaw boasts all of the crazy action and over the top physics with a much tighter cast of main characters (2) boasting about the power of family. The humor is great and the setting allows them to do something different while keeping all the elements that you've grown to love from a franchise about fast cars and memorable villains.
There's an argument that this is the suicide squad movie that did the franchise right.
ahem*Birds of Prey deserves to be a part of the conversation*ahem
You should absolutely watch both and judge for yourself, but this one has Idris Elba and John Cena so I'm giving it a slight edge.
