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Guess What?: Elba not 'handsome' enough for 007
Idris Elba says heâd like to be the next James Bond â if only he was better looking
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dris Elba says he'd like to be the next James Bond ' if only he was better looking.
Inflammatory US radio host Rush Limbaugh recently railed on a Sony Pictures executive who said that she would like the 42-year-old actor to replace Daniel Craig, the current gentleman superspy.
'James Bond is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming. He was white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is, was,' Limbaugh said.
Elba, who played Stringer Bell in The Wire, appeared neither shaken nor stirred.
'Isn't 007 supposed to be handsome? Glad you think I've got a shot!' Elba said on Twitter, posting a picture featuring his grizzled, unshaven face.
Meanwhile, Craig was also criticized after he was cast as Bond ' for being blond.
