Idris Elba had a 40-degree day when he first read his character Stringer Bell’s death scene on “The thread. “The acclaimed HBO series extended over five seasons between 2002 and 2008;
“I had reservations about how Stringer dies,” Elba said recently under Amy Poehler’s “Good hang” podcast (in the video below). “There were different ways that (the creator of the series) David Simon wanted to portray it, and I was a bit against one of it. But the actual beheading of Stringer was an important move, you know? Just to illustrate for the world to” hello, man, take off the flashes. “
The real inspiration for Stringer did not meet the same fate (thankfully). “The Wire” is famous based on former crime journalist Simon’s reporting on Baltimore. Simon was familiar with the real strings, which actually left the drug world.
“Stringer is a real person who is still alive,” Elba said. “And ‘Stringer’ continued to become a very successful businessman who will remain anonymous forever but successfully built many companies and, you know, crawled out of the hole. (Men) in dramatic terms, on ‘the wire’, it would not have been meaningful for strings to come out. Although” Stringer “got out.
He added, “Stringer and Colvin (Played by Robert Wisdom) are Both from Different Sides Trying to Reform the Drug War, And It’s Un-Reformable. It Belongs to the Gangsters and to the Career Cops Who Want to Get to have the Sam, and So Colvin and Stringer Neded Political Point. And at a point at which you let a character or charisma or any of that stuff dictate the story you are telling, you’re cheek of becoming a hack. “
Yet Elba himself still has never looked at the seriesas he shared under “good hang.”
Elba told me earlier Thr 2019 that the planned death scene for Stringer was actually even more spiteful. Late actor Williams iconic Queer pulled Slinger Omar “whips out his cock and pisses on” Stringer in the original script by producer George Pelecanos. Elba refused to make the stage. “I was cursed,” he said. “I told (Simon) that it was absolutely tragedy, that it was sensational and that it would not happen.”
Simon echoed how Elba was “not happy” when he was killed right “when people really started Discover what leading man he was“As Simon told Associated Press. “And I remember talking to him over the script and saying, ‘Idris, you will have movie roles. You will be an A-list. People will get a lot of this death; they will acquire this story afterwards-this is your phone card,'” Simon told Elba at that time. ““ You will do well. “
