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“Idris Elba is So Cool Even Beyoncé & Rihanna Are Bowing Down - E! NEWS” plus 2 more

Martha Kasım 21, 2022

“Idris Elba is So Cool Even Beyoncé & Rihanna Are Bowing Down - E! NEWS” plus 2 more

Idris Elba is So Cool Even Beyoncé & Rihanna Are Bowing Down - E! NEWS

Posted: 01 Aug 2019 10:30 AM PDT

Idris Elba has long been respected as an actor—and seen as one of Hollywood's hottest men, but there was one particular event not too long ago that finally made him feel "super famous."

In 2016, the British star co-hosted the Met Gala, where he met up with top female singers, including Beyoncé, who had played his wife in the 2009 thriller Obsessed. Elba talked about the event on an episode of the First We Feast food blog's Hot Ones YouTube series, posted on Thursday.

"I had Lady Gaga coming up to me, Rihanna, Beyoncé, coming up to me, shaking my hand," the actor said. "I felt super famous. And [Met Gala co-chair and Vogue Editor-in-Chief] Anna Wintour, bless her heart, she championed me as someone who should host it."

"Half the people didn't even know who I was," he continued. "They're like, 'Who? Oh, OK, he was on The Wire, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad's seen that. It was great, apparently. Great."

Elba began acting on-screen in 1994 in his native Britain and got his big break in the U.S. when he started playing Russell "Stringer" Bell on HBO's The Wire in 2002.

In 2009, the year he appeared in the film with Beyoncé, Elba started performing a recurring role on The Office. In 2010, he began playing DCI John Luther on the British TV show Luther, his leading breakout role, which earned him a Golden Globe. He also stars on the new Netflix series Turn Up Charlie, which he co-created.

Meanwhile, Elba's movie career has flourished in recent years. He played Heimdall in the Thor and Avengers movies, and he starred in Prometheus, Pacific Rim, Star Trek Beyond, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Beasts of No Nation, the last of which earned him a SAG Award. 

Starting this Friday, he can be seen in Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw. Later this year, he has another big movie coming out: the first big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Cats.

Donald Glover on Working With Beyonce in Lion King, Childish Gambino - Hollywood Reporter

Posted: 10 Jul 2019 12:00 AM PDT

He added that his 3-year-old son doesn't watch TV, so he never sees commercials for new movies. "I was like, 'You want to go see The Lion King?' You know, just to see if he might notice my voice," Glover explained. "And he was like, 'Oh, sure. Beyonce's in it, right?' And I was like, 'How do you know that? But also Daddy's in it.' I'm in it, too."

"I'm just saying, Beyonce has people who haven't even seen television loving her," he said. Glover added that he wasn't sure how his son was introduced to her work.

The actor then spoke about his relationship with Beyonce, who stars in the film as Nala, and admitted that he doesn't know her all that well. "Well enough to be like, 'Hi, Beyonce.' And run away," he said. Glover added that he met the singer a few years ago at a Jay-Z concert and said "she was really sweet."

He also spoke about covering Elton John songs for The Lion King and revealed that he told the iconic singer that he was covering his songs in the film. "He was really nice and really sweet to us and I was like, 'Hey, I'm gonna be Simba,' and I think he was like, 'Oh, this guy's crazy,'" Glover recalled. "He didn't know really what I was talking about."

While he got to perform a number of songs for the film, Glover also recorded a duet with Beyonce. After he joked that he requested to not be in the same room as her while recording, he explained that they recorded their parts separately because he was in London filming Solo: A Star Wars Story at the time.

Kimmel said that he imagined the recording process was less intimidating without the presence of Beyonce. "I imagine it's less intimidating playing basketball with Michael Jordan if you're at home just throwing a piece of paper in the trash," Glover responded.

Earlier in the appearance, Glover spoke about whether he was really done performing as Childish Gambino. The performer announced on Twitter in January 2018 that he was retiring his music alter ego.

"I think I'm gonna still do shows. I'm not quite sure," Glover said before he explained that he was about to head to Australia to perform shows that he had to reschedule after breaking his foot. "I love music. I really love making music."

He added that he didn't plan to perform any songs from The Lion King during his upcoming shows. "I think Disney has a pretty tight leash on those songs," Glover said. "I'd have to be accompanied by [Disney chief] Bob Iger."

In addition to being an actor and musician, Glover has also written for TV shows including 30 Rock and Atlanta, the latter of which he created.

Glover was hired to work on 30 Rock when he was a college student. "I was about to graduate and I got the job, so I was still an R.A. and I still had to do it over the summer," he explained.

Glover added that writing for a television show earned him more money than what his friends were making. "You don't spend it well. You're too young," he said. Glover then admitted that he spent his 30 Rock money on Fruit Gushers. "I wasn't allowed to have candy as a kid, so I was like, 'I'm ballin,'" he said.

Watch the full interview below.

Original ‘Lion King’ Animator Slams Disney’s 2019 Remake: ‘It Kind of Hurts’ - IndieWire

Posted: 01 Aug 2019 07:24 AM PDT

Disney's "The Lion King" remake has dominated the worldwide box office with over $1 billion in less than a month, but it has rubbed some of the animators who worked on the 1994 movie the wrong way. HuffPo reached out to 13 original "Lion King" animators to get their thoughts on Jon Favreau's photorealistic remake, many of whom declined to comment. One animator speaking on anonymity said, "I will only get myself in trouble if I comment on the 'other' version." Another animator added, "There is a huge resentment against these 3D remakes from the original 2D crews. Maybe if we got any kind of royalties it would be different."

David Stephan, an animator who worked on the original film's hyena designs and the iconic "Circle of Life" opening sequence, went on record sharing his critical thoughts of the 2019 "Lion King." Summarizing the thoughts of many of his colleagues, Stephan told HuffPo, "If you polled the crew of the original 'Lion King,' most of them would say, 'Why? Did you really have to do that?' It kind of hurts."

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"It's sort of sad that the stockholder is now in the room deciding what movies get made," Stephan continued. "Disney's now taken the cover off, and it's now in your face: 'Yeah, we just want to make money.' That's disappointing as an artist, from a studio that was founded on originality and art."

Stephan said that the photorealistic VFX used on the 2019 "Lion King" negated what made the animated 1994 film so special and imaginative. The animators believe the effects were so realistic that it made the film's other prominent elements, such as singing and talking animals, feel widely out of place.

"It would jar me out of the film, literally," Stephen said. "Especially with little Simba walking around. It was too real. And then when he would talk, it reminded me of those old nature films where they would dub the voices over and the lips would move. I thought, 'Oh, this is really cheap.' I think it was just too soon for this one."

"I just came away going, 'Wow, that was a great story that I worked on back in '93.' How come the apes in 'Planet of the Apes' look so much more alive than the animals in 'Lion King'?" Stephan continued. "This one just said, 'You know what, let's cut the expressions out completely. Let's just keep it real as possible.' And I think it just diminished the film."

Stephan went on to criticize the voice performances as well, calling them "so wooden." The 2019 "Lion King" featured the voices of Donald Glover, Beyonce, Seth Rogen, John Oliver, and Alfre Woodard, among others.

"[The filmmakers] put themselves into a corner when you do that realistically," Stephan said. "You're really stuck to what the real physics are in real life, or people aren't going to buy it. But there were a few scenes where there were a couple of expressions and suddenly it was a little more alive."

"The Lion King" is now playing in theaters nationwide. Read more interviews with original "Lion King" animators over on HuffPo.

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