Idris Elba is Everywhere with ‘Beast’ and ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’

The Parting Shot with H. Alan Scott · Aug 19, 2022 · 16m

If anybody is going to fight a lion in a movie, it’s going to be Idris Elsa. And he does exactly that in ‘Beast’ (August 19). “We've put a movie together that feels like a popcorn movie,” Elba told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Elba plays Dr. Nate Daniels, a widower who takes his two daughters to a South African game reserve to heal the loss of their mother until things go dangerously wrong. “It's a survival film with an African American family. Culturally, I felt like something that we hadn't seen before.” In addition to ‘Beast,’ Elba can also be seen this month in the film ‘Three Thousand Years…