Sean Fennessey
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Appearances Over Time
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It's weird.
Idris too has attached himself to so many – I mean he was literally in the Thor films.
He was in the gun suicide squad.
Like he keeps doing this in a way that it's – like this character almost feels like a continuation of all of those other characters that he's played to the point of he's so over it that he is now like a drunk.
It's a very strange career, Idris Elba.
He's not bad in the movie.
He's never really bad in anything.
But there's a kind of autopilot quality.
Think about his first really big role after The Wire is he stars...
Yeah, but his first real leading part is in the first streaming movie.
It's in Beasts of No Nation.
Oh, yeah.
Which is like, that's kind of emblematic of the thing that happened.
Whereas he should have been going into a period in his career where he was going up like a rocket ship.
And then it was like, well, streaming movies are TV.
And if you want to be in a movie, you've got to be the sixth lead behind Chris Hemsworth.
Yeah, it's a really weird one.
Okay, we've got 30 minutes here.
This is your time to shine.
Now, you've been doing a lot of research.