| Idris Elba is amazing... |
 Idris Elba is amazing...
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Aug. 1st, 2011 @ 08:03 am 
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Last night, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) velithya and I watched The Losers.
This movie can be said to have 5 principal characters:
- Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan - aka John Winchester, Supernatural, and apparently he was on Grey's Anatomy or something)
- Aisha (Zoe Saldana - Uhura in the new Star Trek)
- Pooch (Columbus Short)
- Cougar (Óscar Jaenada)
aaaaaand:
- Roque (Idris Elba)
Now, the thing is? I didn't like Roque. Not from the very beginning did I like Roque. I just didn't like him, at all, to an extent that puzzled me, because I couldn't have told you why I didn't like him, I just didn't. Presumably, I decided, that guy just rubbed me the wrong way.
Until the credits rolled, and I saw that he was played by Idris freaking Elba, the same actor who played Heimdall in Thor. About whom I recall commenting: "All the other Aesir - they come across as superhuman, the kind of people who would overawe historic vikings, but that's all. Heimdall is a god." I fangirled him so hard, so instantly, that had I realised he was in it I would have sought out The Losers just for him.
AND YET. DISLIKE. SO MUCH DISLIKE.
From which we must conclude: Idris Elba is an amazingly good actor, who can span the range of radiating I am a god and you should feel an irresistable urge to genuflect before me or I am a giant tool.
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here via network. I think they should've cast Idris Elba as Clay and JDM as Roque.
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| From: | sami |
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August 2nd, 2011 12:34 am (UTC) |
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That would have been a bit weird, given that JDM looks roughly like Clay and Idris Elba (with scar added, at least) bears a passable resemblance to Roque.
There's only so creative you can really get with casting a movie directly based on a comic.
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