Idris Elba almost scammed his way to Robert De Niro in the '90s

Idris Elba almost scammed his way to Robert De Niro in the '90s

One common theme that you discover when you write about film stars a lot is that, unlike the rest of us who were falling out of pubs and shoving ourselves into sweaty gigs as teenagers, they were already incredibly focused on what they wanted to do for a career, rather like Idris Elba. It’s hard to know where that kind of ambition and understanding of forging a path through life comes from; sometimes it’s from having parents already in the indus…