Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of The Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Excited to bring you my conversation this week with the great Idris Elba.

Man, has he been in some good movies and his latest as no exception?

If you watch the series Luther, the BBC series that ran for five seasons where he plays

a tough cop, a detective in London, you are going to love this movie.

That was a very popular series in the UK, made the jump over to the United States,

and now the movie Luther the Fallen Sun, a full-length Netflix film with that same character.

I didn't realize before I started looking into his background and studying him a little bit,

how connected Idris is to New York City, which is why we did the interview.

In a special bar called The King Cole Bar in Midtown Manhattan,

it's a place that resembles, let's just say, one of the scenes in the movie.

And we sat in there and it's this historical bar from 1932 in New York City where

they like to say they invented the Bloody Mary.

I don't know if that's true, but let's go with it.

People like Dolly and John Lennon and Joe Demagio and all these icons from different universes

moved in and out of New York would sit and gather and huddle and talk.

So we felt like it was a cool space for a cool guy, but he came here from London where he grew up,

his father worked in a Ford motor plant, he after high school worked in the same motor plant

did Idris, and then decided he was going to be an actor.

Took the bold step at 19 years old of moving to New York City, and you'll hear about a decade

of struggle living out of a van when he read the script for The Wire, the obviously iconic HBO series

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