Idris Elba – the Hackney-born Hollywood megastar who broke through in The Wire, consolidated on Luther, scored an OBE in 2016, and categorically refuses to answer any more questions about whether he’ll be the next James Bond – has a cold, which is why (he says) he’d rather not shake my hand when we meet. Elba’s just flown in to London from New York, where he attended US Vogue’s glitzy fashion shindig, the Met Gala, in a tuxedo he helped Givenchy custom-design for him. He thinks he picked up a virus on the plane. “When I got off, I was a bit, ugh. I hardly ever get sick, but today I’m suffering.”We’re interviewing over lunch, in a genteel tearoom in the Langham hotel, London.…

Source: The Times December 14, 2018 23:59 UTC