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He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
Sep 28, 2025
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.
I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.
Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.
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