“Me saying I don’t like to call myself a Black actor is my prerogative. That’s me, not you. So for you to turn around and say to me, I’m denying my Blackness,’ On what grounds? Did you hear that? Where am I denying it? And what for? It’s just stupid. Wh...
Idris Elba is trying to clear the air amid the backlash he received when he described himself as not being a “black actor”. He had previously told Esquire magazine that he had stopped describing himself as a ‘black actor’ because he felt it limited his career.
“And in this day and age, it’s really difficult to have an opinion if you’re in the public eye because it gets overly scrutinized, taken out of context, thrown into some sort of bullshit, zeitgeisty social media argument.
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