Posted on 11/11/2013 11:18:58 AM PST by nickcarraway
Idris Elba probably didn't expect Pres. Barack Obama to talk about his sex appeal when he went to the White House last week for a screening of his awards season favorite drama Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
But that's exactly what the commander-in-chief did when recalling the first time the actor was at the White House for a state dinner.
"He told everyone in the screening room...'Idris Elba couldn't sit down because all the ladies, all the ladies were all over him. Give him a break today, ladies. Give him a break,'" Elba told me last night at the BAFTA LA Jaguar Britannia Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Elba added with a smile, "I was sitting in the room with a massive head."
Idris stars in the biopic of the South African leader opposite Naomie Harris as his wife Winnie Mandela.
Elba said "it was an honor" to have Obama ask to see the movie.
"Barack is really fond of Mr. Mandela so he was really thrilled to have us there to present our film and I felt very special about doing that," said the actor, whose makeup artist girlfriend Naiyana Garth is reportedly pregnant with their first baby.
Harris and two of Mandela's daughters, Zindzi and Zenani, also attended the screening as did the film's director Justin Chadwick.
"I'm still pinching myself," Chadwick also said at the BAFTA gala. "It still feels like a bit of a dream to be showing your film in the White House with the president."
Check out our chat with Idris in the video below.
I don't get mad, I get even!!
{;^)
Well, no.
If this country survives, she and Barry will be the brunt of jokes forever.
“If this country survives, she and Barry will be the brunt of jokes forever. “
The butt of jokes could be more apropos in 0b0z0’s case.
(I'll have nightmares tonight but it was worth it.)
She’s really a guy.
...er than Christmas in the Bahamas
...Carnaval in Rio
... Mardi Gras in NOLA
... etc.
Seriously, just because a guy spends 24/7 with his best bud in the WH Den watching 6 different basketball channels, is never separated from the fellow on trips, holds hands with him at sporting events, and until the "campaign" of 2012, had him living in the house, does not necessarily mean the POTUS is a pansy. Maybe this thing with Reggie is just a long term play date?
Besides, Michelle, with those linebacker guns, is man enough for any family; apparently man enough to refuse to ride in AF1 with Reggie and Barry, anyway. BTW, the MSM Lefties wrote millions of words about J. Edgar and Clyde, why not a word or two about this interesting Reggie-Barry duo?
They really are inseparable, you know?
Electorate:
i.e., those obese tattooed wizards now appearing at your local WM parking lot
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