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Idris Elba on 'Beasts of No Nation' and Making Grown Men Cry. The first time you see Idris Elba in the child- soldier drama Beasts of No Nation, he's emerging out of the jungle brush, cutting through the middle of an army of tiny, machete- and- machine- gun- wielding tweens. Clad in a beret and an outfit that might be characterized as "military dictator summer- casual," he strides up to the young boy at the center of this crowd and asks "Who brought this thing here?" in a booming voice. It's a proper movie entrance, bold and brash, immediately establishing the man known only as "Commandant" as a charismatic, Colonel Kurtz- like figure. He oozes danger and power.

You fear this person immediately. The first time you meet Idris Elba when you interview him, he's standing right behind you, having silently walking through the door and feeling no need to announce his presence just yet.

Directed by Cary Fukunaga. With Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitor, Andrew Adote. A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in. Netflix has really stepped up with their original movie outings. These are the films to keep an eye on in the coming months. Once there was a Hushpuppy. Good Film! You have never seen anything quite like "Beasts of the Southern Wild". It is a film that will have you thinking about the. · · The '80s classic returns to defend the universe against evil with the help of five intrepid kids. Now Streaming on Netflix. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly.

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You have no idea the 4. Hey there, mate," and scans the place for a way to sneak a smoke. Clad in a buttoned- to- the- top Fred Perry polo shirt and a get- up that says, "I'm just going out to meet some folks for drinks, though I may be DJ- ing at the club later as well," the actor displays both a vintage, Steve Mc. Queen- type coolness and the easy excitability of one of his younger co- stars. Elba will rarely sit for the next 3. He puts you at ease within nanoseconds. And you realize, beyond a shadow of a doubt, why this gentleman deserves to be a genuine movie star.

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Part patriarchal surrogate, part power- hungry psychopath and part warped casualty of life during perpetual wartime, Elba's Commandant is the figure who leads Beasts' displaced young hero Agu (played by newcomer Abraham Attah) deep into the heart of darkness. Grooming the youngster to be a child soldier through desensitization, terror and fatherly affection, the character is a complicated mix of good, bad and ugly — something the actor has demonstrated a facility with in his best- known roles on The Wire and the hit BBC import Luther, just not quite to this extent. There's a lot of real estate in the film to hate somebody," he says. But anyone can play mustache- twiddling evil, you know? It's tougher to play someone like this as a human being. Because then you can't just dismiss that person.

You have to confront him."Several weeks before Netflix simultaneously releases it in theaters and on its streaming service on October 1. Elba sat down (sort of) with Rolling Stone to talk about the experience of inhabiting this character's mindset, being sized up by a posse of prepubescents and why grown men cry when "Stringer" talks in a British accent. You initially signed on because of director Cary Fukunaga, right? That was a big part of the initial attraction, yeah. The man is an incredible filmmaker, but even more than that.. I'll put it this way: When you watch a film like this, on a subject like this, half of you is going, "Child soldiers, might be a little bit Hollywood..

You know, in order to get a film like this made, they probably had to Hollywood it up a bit and get really sentimental." And Cary doesn't do that. If you'd seen his other movies, you knew that's not how he was going to go into this. There's bound to be a part of the Beasts audience who are used to seeing the type of movies you just described and will wonder, "So when is the white person going to show up and guide us through this?

Where's the Kevin- Kline- from- Cry- Freedom character here?"[Laughs] Right?!? My parents are from West Africa, and the fact of the matter is, most of the screen images you see of Africa and the characters in those films feel like they've been filtered through a very two- dimensional perspective. The movies essentially aren't about Africa; they're [in Californian accent] "Hey, this is our African friend." Cary wanted none of that. He was determined to go after a sense of authenticity, of what it's really like there. For the first 2. 0 minutes or so, you're just watching a normal African kid live his life. Which you need to make the rest of the film work.[slams hands down on table] Ka- boom!

You need to feel what this kid lost. So how did those two- dimensional takes on the continent affect how you played Commandant? It made me want to humanize him more. Cary and I spoke about this endlessly. There was a lot of "Cary, I'm not sure if I should do this. I can't make him another 2- D dictator type.." And his answer was, "We've seen that guy already. Now let's see the charismatic war commander. Let's see the guy that Agu sees as kind of hero, as a savior when he first meets him." Think about it, this kid is scared shitless, he's alone in the jungle, then this man comes and kneels down to him, eye to eye, and says, "I'm the group leader, who's going to be in my group?

Who's going to be my strong boys?"The language Commandant uses.. Agu, I saved your life." Did he? Really?!? That's an interesting thing. He's not saying the word kidnapped, it's "I just saved you. You're going to be one of the greatest soldiers in the world.

Come on! You want a gun like this? Let's go." He's almost like an Eagle Scout leader! There's a lot of real estate in the film to hate somebody, especially this guy. But anyone can play mustache- twiddling evil, you know? It's tougher to play someone like this as a human being. Because then you can't just dismiss that person. You have to confront him."Most of the screen images of Africa.. The movies essentially aren't about Africa; they're [in Californian accent] 'Hey, this is our African friend.'"He's not based on anyone in particular, is he?

I didn't want to specifically research these kind of men or base him on anyone at all, because that would have felt like mimicking. But I did look at the common denominators in dictator- type characters: What was the thread of all of these people? How are they so successful?

How did Hitler manage to do what he did? I wanted to study and understand that, and it turns out that charisma and being a sociopath are interestingly linked. That's an odd Venn diagram. Not as odd as you'd think. Honestly, the biggest thing I learned is that, at some point, a child soldier decides that he's never going home and he's going to stay.

He actively thinks, "Okay, I want to be a child soldier." In fact, my character must have come from something similar in his life. But I don't think we could ever quite grasp that Stockholm Syndrome aspect. These kids could have run and they didn't. Why? Because they actually wanted to stay. You have a gun and you're powerful.

You're no longer scared or a victim. You're the one pulling the trigger now.

It's fucked up. Do you remember the naked man in the film? The guy walking beside me? No. Not many people remember this guy. He's my right- hand man, in the film, and he's like a mascot who walks around mostly naked. His name, in real life, is "Anointed." He comes from Liberia. And he was not just a child soldier who killed someone when he was 1. Commandant. He was part of the boot camp, training the extras for three weeks before I got there.

And I was shit- scared of him. Why? Because he just had this look in his eyes like, "I can kill you." You know, in the movies, you’re like [in exaggerated villain voice] "I'll get you all!" With him, there was none of that shit. It was, [in African accent] "No, man. I kill him, I cut his heart out, I eat it while it's still beating. I've done that before." And just like, simple as that. I mean, fucking hell!

That was quite an eye- opener for me. What was the experience of working with this young, nonprofessional cast like? When I first got to the set, this kid who's in the film — his real name is King Kong — came up to me, and he just stood right under my chest, just looking at me. Elba affects an aggressive pose] It was that moment of him saying, "Oh, are you the leader? All right, let me see you lead then." All of these kids were watching us. Had I shown weakness or seemed tentative, I would have been eaten alive.

And I literally was like, "What are you looking at?

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