The Irish Mail on Sunday

Idris’s Bond dream finally gets the bullet

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HE’S been tipped as ‘the next James Bond’ for four years – but it seems Idris Elba has finally given up on the dream of playing 007. The actor and part-time DJ has instead set up a record label and already has his first signing – trendy French hip-hop artist James BKS. No-nonsense Idris said recently: ‘[They] just want to have a black guy play James Bond rather than Idris Elba, the actor, play James Bond. Ugh, come on.’ It’s surely the movie industry’s loss, as shown by our tonguein-cheek version, right, of how things could have been…

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