One of Britain’s biggest movie and TV stars is planning to move to Africa to support the continent’s growing film industry. Idris Elba, who starred as Stringer Bell in.
One of Britain’s biggest movie and TV stars is planning to move to Africa to support the continent’s growing film industry. Idris Elba, who starred as Stringer Bell in The Wire, tells the BBC that he plans to make the move in the next five to 10 years. “I’m here to bolster the film industry—that is a 10-year process—I won’t be able to do that from overseas”, he says. “I need to be in-country, on the continent.” The 52-year-old, born in London to a mother from Ghana and a father from Sierra Leone, is involved in plans to build a studio on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, but he doesn’t intend to live in just one country.
