Idris Elba is recalling how he prepared to play Nelson Mandela in ... When the movie was released in 2013, Elba recalled being nervous to show the film to a South African audience.

Idris Elba says he ‘heard strange noise’s during his night in a South African prison to prepare for his Nelson Mandela role (Getty ... Winfrey shortly after the movie was released in 2013.

Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela ... which documents Mandela’s 27 years in prison in South Africa. Elba said that before ...

four years before he served as the first Black president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Mandela died in 2013 at the age of 95. Ebla has also recounted the experience of spending a night in the ...

IN Francis Annan’s new movie, Escape From Pretoria ... occasions boasted that he was arrested during a visit to South Africa in the 1970s when he had attempted to contact Nelson Mandela on what he ...

CAPE TOWN - ANC stalwart and former finance minister Trevor Manuel detailed the events that unfolded when they were informed that Nelson Mandela ... fully democratic South Africa in 1994.

It's going to be a big weekend at the movies as Marvel Studios' Captain America: Brave New World soars into theaters and Paddington in Peru makes its debut. John Lithgow eyed for Dumbledore in ...

before finishing with a dazzling light show onto Nelson’s Column. Mandela’s legacy is a reminder that great victories can be born in the hardest of times. After 27 years in prison, he led South Africa ...