People blaming the white system in 2023 for Idris Elba blowing his career sounds like something people who divide the world into oppressors and oppressed do tbh......
Idris "blowing his career"? LOL, oh please. but discrimination and oppression is still the sad reality for many minorities and marginalised groups everywhere on this planet. and in white Hollywood, it is still reality for POC. the times and opportunities have changed and improved for actors of colour for a while after the big BLM protests in 2020 with producers and studios "allowing" more diversity in movies but only for a couple of years really, with diversity in Hollywood productions regressing again lately. i mean this IS reality:
www.ana.net/miccontent/show/id/ii-2023-04-hollywood-diversity-reportnewsroom.ucla.edu/releases/hollywood-diversity-report-spring-2023-movie-industrywww.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/hollywood-diversity-inclusion-worse-2022-studies-show-1234655135/www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/diversity-movies-study-annenberg-inclusion-initiative-1235109900/sure, if they can afford it and enjoy movies that are targeted at a primarily white audience.
is this you saying that Idris is more successful than all of those guys? ok, then what are you complaining about, really?
no shit lol
uh not really? in what way are they better? SLJ has been in like 150 movies at this point, from great to abysmal. he's a workaholic and also not really Elba's generation (neither is Morgan Freeman).
but what was Jamie Foxx's last really big role? Django Unchained in 2012? hmm Leo was in that one, too, and pretty much got all the attention. i would even go as far as to say that that German actor Christoph Waltz whose career peaked at that time, was noticed more than Jamie was. then there was his work for Michael Mann in Miami Vice in 2006 and Collateral in 2004, both being rather niche action films that did not really got so much attention in mainstream audiences (we nerds don't count). he did win an Oscar for Ray in... 2004. kudos, but yeah, that's just another award that's given to black actors to fulfill a quota in a certain year. (
variety.com/2022/awards/awards/sidney-poitier-best-actor-oscars-will-smith-denzel-washington-1235152940/ ) ...uh yeah, that's Jamie's "big time" window career in a nutshell.
and Michael B. Jordan's career hasn't really taken off yet either tbh. he's in a couple of Marvel movies, but so is Idris, and much more consistently. MBJ has the Creed franchise, Idris has three times the amount of action movies under his belt: Bastille Day, Pacific Rim, The Reaping, Ghost Rider: Ghost of whatevs, Star Trek Beyond, Prometheus, Takers, No Good Deed, The Harder They Fall, Beast, Extraction 2... as for roles where both showed off their acting chops, MBJ has Fruitvale Station and maybe Just Mercy, Idris has Mandela, Beasts of No Nation, Molly's Game, Concrete Cowboy, The Mountain Between Us, Three Thousand Years of Longing from last year.. as for TV, MBJ has one season of The Wire, Idris has 3, plus his very own show Luther, a show that was so successful not with him but BECAUSE of him, plus this new show, Hijack, that's making waves currently.
i'm not really a fan of these kind of comparisons and i'm really not trying to best anyone of these actors with Idris, i think they're all equally great in what they're doing, i'm just trying to show you that Idris is not behind his acting colleagues in any way, and that his career is not stagnating bc he didnt land James Bond lmao. it's ridiculous to assume that.
Mahershala Ali, Daniel Kaluuya, MBJ, Donald Glover, Lakeith Stanfield, John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Jeffrey Wright, Idris Elba etc etc, they're the same generation more or less and all on pretty much the same level talent-wise and by the amount of attention and roles they're getting, but i don't see anyone of them becoming as "big" as Leo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Tom Cruise, and all the other white actors dominating highest grossing leading actors lists, such as this one:
www.statista.com/statistics/655480/all-time-top-grossing-actors-box-office/funny that Samuel L. Jackson is at the top, but he's in 4-5 movies every fucking year and, as much as i löve him and respect him and admire his work ethics and all, he's pretty much
the token black actor of Hollywood if there ever was one. that's how you get big in Hollywood when you're black.
for good measure, top 20 lists of highest paid actors:
www.torontofilmmagazine.com/post/here-are-the-top-20-highest-paid-actors &
en.as.com/meristation/news/these-are-hollywoods-25-top-paid-actors-of-2022-and-2023-n/ ...it's a white-out.
so, again, what you are complaining about Idris Elba's career is pretty much due to systematic and structural racism in the industry. that's just the sad reality and still is in 2023.
that, or you are just bashing him because... whatever it is that irks you lol but then you gotta be honest and just say so that you think he sucks. that would be fair enough.