Idris Elba shows off impressive basketball skills as he mimes to his new track Light Work in fun video
He’s a talented actor, producer, rapper, singer, songwriter and DJ.
And on Friday Idris Elba, 48, showed off his impressive basketball skills in a fun video, while miming to his new track Light Work featuring Wavy Boy.
Taking to Instagram, the British star shared a clip of himself performing to camera while throwing a basketball over his head, and managing to get it through the net behind him without looking.
Skills! On Friday Idris Elba, 48, showed off his impressive basketball skills in a fun video, while miming to his new track Light Work featuring Wavy Boy
Idris captioned the video: ‘HAPPY FRIDAY! #lightworknothingheavychallenge. @7.wallace @wavyboysmith Concrete Cowboy soundtrack.’
The catchy track, which features on the Concrete Cowboy soundtrack, was released six days ago.
Idris stars in coming-of-age Netflix film, based on the G. Neri novel Ghetto Cowboy, alongside Stranger Things actor Caleb McLaughlin.
The rapper portrays Harp, a father who takes in his 15-year-old son Cole (played by Caleb) after he’s kicked out of school in Detroit.
Watch this! Taking to Instagram, the British star shared a clip of himself performing to camera while throwing a basketball over his head
What a shot! He managed to get it through the net behind him without looking
Light work! Idris smiled at the camera after making the shot before strolling away
In a synopsis, Netflix explains: ‘Harp finds solace in rehabilitating horses for inner city cowboys at the Fletcher Street Stables, a real-life black urban horsemanship community that has provided a safe haven for the neighborhood residents for more than 100 years.
Torn between his growing respect for his father’s community and his reemerging friendship with troubled cousin Smush (Jharrel Jerome), Cole begins to reprioritize his life as the stables themselves are threatened by encroaching gentrification.’
The motion picture was unveiled last September at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Idris told Variety that the timing was perfect to bring the story about Black cowboy culture to the silver screen.
Idris explained: ‘It feels really apt to be able to tell a part history that’s been definitely buried, and in the case of Concrete Cowboy, that history is right now.’
Film stars: Idris stars in coming-of-age Netflix film, based on the G. Neri novel Ghetto Cowboy, alongside Stranger Things actor Caleb McLaughlin
He also opened up about the historical value in the material that he and director Ricky Staub sought to preserve with the motion picture, referring to the Fletcher Street Stables in the face of potential gentrification.
‘Those stables – they face being taken away forever and, part of what Ricky said to me was that: “I’m hoping that we made this movie and they keep the stables, based on the fact that people fall in love with the story and history and heritage of the stables.”‘
Caleb told the outlet that ‘it definitely was a dream come true being introduced to the project’ with a cast that also includes Jharrel Jerome, Lorraine Toussaint, Byron Bowers and Method Man.
In particular, the young star was elated to find out which actor would be playing his father, adding: ‘Who wouldn’t want Idris to play your father in a movie?’
Big role: Caleb McLaughlin said ‘it definitely was a dream come true being introduced to the project’ and in particularly, ‘finding out that Idris was playing my father’