‘I’m finally playing a guy thinking on his toes in Hijack’ says Idris Elba
Idris Elba is living every traveller’s worst nightmare in the new seven part Apple TV+ thriller series Hijack. The 50-year-old Luther actor stars as Sam Nelson, a business negotiator who is happily settled in his seat on a plane bound for London when it’s hijacked by an armed gang.
The Luther star, who has previously talked about discovering his love of drama at school — “drama was the sort of classroom that I didn’t have to fight or challenge everyone, I just loved drama” — says that he was drawn to the role of Sam because it was different to the type of roles he is usually offered. “You know, I am a tall man, big shoulders, you often get a lot of roles then about your brawn and being ‘the guy’,” explains Idris.
Idris is an expert hand at stage craft, but this role required something more cerebral. “I think that’s what makes Sam new and unique as a central character in a hijack. Usually, it’s ‘I am pretty handy, I can fight, and I am going to go over there and knock him out, blah, blah, blah’,” says Idris. “He’s so intense and incredibly focused. He plays a character that is unravelling the whole time, then I get to push his buttons, and so it was a really great dynamic between Neil and I that was then played out by the two characters.”
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