@hulu did you really pass on renewing Not Suitable for Work to prioritize Adults Season 2? If so… poor choice. Not Suitable for Work was SO much better than Adults 😭
Idris Elba says he was given one warning before auditioning for The Wire: don’t let them know you’re British.
Trevor Noah: “I’ve seen people get shocked when they find out you’re not American.”
Idris Elba: “I was unemployed, bro.”
“I was living in New Jersey. I was bartending, working the door, DJing.”
“Before you know it, you just start speaking like an American.”
“Then my casting director said, ‘This thing has come up. It’s called The Wire.’”
“‘But if you go in, you cannot let them know you aren’t American.’”
“‘This is about Baltimore. It’s very specific.’”
“So I auditioned for four weeks straight in an American accent.”
“Then at the fourth audition, they looked at me and said…”
“‘Idris… where are you from?’”
Trevor Noah: “‘Where are you from?’ That’s the phrase every immigrant is terrified of hearing.”
Idris Elba: “My palms started sweating.”
“I’m thinking… they told you not to say anything.”
“I looked at them and said…”
“‘I’m from East London.’”
“The room just exploded.”
“‘Oh my God… we had a bet.’”
“‘We knew you weren’t from Baltimore or Brooklyn, but we never guessed England.’”
“‘You got the job.’”
“‘We don’t want you to play Avon.”
“We want you to play Stringer Bell.’”
“I walked out thinking…”
“‘Did my life just change?’”
I need #ShopTemu to chill on the god damn ads. I’m trying to scroll and every other post is a Temu ad. Wtf is your ad budget $$?!
Whatever it is, you’re doing too much…
Still can’t believe I’m the only Speech & Language Pathologist in the public health sector in Trinidad atm🥹
Hoping to help change that soon tho but for now I still need someone to pinch me 😁