Turns out Idris Elba had to hide his English accent from producers to land his breakthrough role on 'The Wire':
Portraying the character across the acclaimed series’ first three seasons completely upended Elba’s career, and in the actor’s appearance on the latest episode of First We Feast’s, he detailed just how far he went to land the role: Elba says he hid his English accent from series creatorspecifically told Alexa Fogel, who was the casting director, ‘Listen, this is about Baltimore.
When the actor auditioned for Fogel, who was immediately won over by his performance, he was told by the casting director to obscure the fact that he was from East London when he was called back to audition for the producers. Well, it worked—until the fourth audition, when the producers changed their tactic on the actor. One of the producers—who happened to be Irish—asked Elba to talk to him about his childhood, and the actor blanked.
“This was the moment of truth,” Elba explained to Evans, “because my parents told me not to lie—you’ve got to look someone in the eye and be honest. I have lied—it’s never worked out for me.” Elba immediately broke down and confessed, confirming that the Irish producer’s hunch was correct. Nonetheless, Simon was impressed, and the creator thereafter awarded Elba the role of Stringer Bell and changed the actor’s life forever.
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