{"id":54624,"date":"2018-08-19T01:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/19\/idris-elba-my-ambition-is-boundless\/"},"modified":"2018-08-19T01:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T23:05:03","slug":"idris-elba-my-ambition-is-boundless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=54624","title":{"rendered":"Idris Elba: \u2018My ambition is boundless\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idris Elba is powering through his midlife crisis \u2013 007 rumours and all. He talks to Tim LewisIdris Elba is currently in the grip of a midlife crisis \u2013 \u201creally and truly,\u201d he insists \u2013 but it is also somehow the most Idris Elba kind of midlife crisis. No flashy little sports car or grunting Harley-Davidson. He\u2019s not started dressing ridiculously, either: today, in a hotel room in London, the 45-year-old actor is wearing black, from his Vans trainers to his fitted polo shirt. He has something like nine tattoos peeking out here and there, the most eye-catching being a lion, representing Sierra Leone, inside a star, the emblem of Ghana, on his right fist.Instead, Elba\u2019s midlife crisis mainly seems to take the form of saying \u201cyes\u201d to new experiences. Untouchable as a profoundly charismatic, swaggering leading man (The Wire, Luther, Beasts of No Nation), he\u2019s currently more interested in making himself feel uncomfortable. He\u2019s just directed his first feature film, Yardie, an adaptation of a notorious novel about Jamaican gangsters in London. In the past couple of years, he\u2019s filmed documentaries in which he has done everything from driving 180mph on a beach in Wales to flying in an aerobatics competition and making his professional kickboxing debut. He\u2019s designed clothes for Superdry and he\u2019s just set up his own record label. He continues to DJ around the world and he even spins tunes at weddings if you ask nicely (as his pals Harry and Meghan did). Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2018\/aug\/19\/idris-elba-my-ambition-is-boundless-yardie\" target=\"_blank\">Idris Elba: \u2018My ambition is boundless\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idris Elba is powering through his midlife crisis \u2013 007 rumours and all. He talks to Tim LewisIdris Elba is currently in the grip of a midlife crisis \u2013 \u201creally and truly,\u201d he insists \u2013 but it is also somehow the most Idris Elba kind of midlife crisis. No flashy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}