If a Black actor is the most popular actor in Britain you can know it is because of PC. We have to love him he is Black and Black is better in every way than White. We are taught that constantly by the media and just like Pavlovian conditioning, they have been taught to believe what the media wants you to believe.
That is why we have a Black Muslim President with a Muslim name. The average fairly dumb American thinks that has just got to be the perfect man. So they voted him president despite him never accomplishing anything on his on.
He's got a show on the BBC called Idris Elba, King of Speed, where he races and drives expensive exotic cars, and he's played tough guy roles in all sorts of stuff going back to The Wire. He reminds me of a Bristish Woody Strode.