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		</div><p>Idris Elba says being the first black actor to play James Bond would put him in a “difficult position”.</p>
<p>Daniel Craig is expected to make his last appearance as the famous spy in the next 007 film.</p>
<p>Elba, who has been tipped for the role, told Vanity Fair magazine: <em>“Of course, if someone said to me, ‘Do you want to play James Bond?,’ I’d be like, ‘Yeah!’</em></p>
<p><em>“That’s fascinating to me. But it’s not something I’ve expressed, like, ‘Yeah, I wanna be the black James Bond’,”</em> the 46-year-old said.</p>
<p><em>“You just get disheartened when you get people from a generational point of view going, ‘It can’t be.’ And it really turns out to be the colour of my skin.</em></p>
<p><em>“And then if I get it and it didn’t work, or it did work, would it be because of the colour of my skin? That’s a difficult position to put myself into when I don’t need to.”</em></p>
<p>Elba said he would “love to see three or four Luthers come out as films”, following the success of his TV series.</p>
<p>The former star of The Wire said he was unusual as a black British actor in the US when he started looking for work there.</p>
<p><em>“When I got to America and was like, I want to be an actor, I was like a novelty act in all my casting meetings,”</em> Elba said.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">From prestige TV to big-screen franchises to the Coachella DJ tent, <a href="https://twitter.com/idriselba?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IdrisElba</a> is a poster boy for 21st-century fame: multidisciplinary, omnipresent, engaging. August cover story by <a href="https://twitter.com/melvillmatic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@melvillmatic</a>. Photographs by Collier Schorr. <a href="https://t.co/hjTCJ9bjd5">https://t.co/hjTCJ9bjd5</a> <a href="https://t.co/PVcieSb5yX">pic.twitter.com/PVcieSb5yX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) <a href="https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1144216900785836033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><em>“They were like, ‘Wow! I love your accent, it’s so refined,’”</em> before telling him: <em>“OK, so you’re Gangster No. 1.”</em></p>
<p>Richard Madden, James Norton, Tom Hardy and Tom Hiddleston are among the other names who have been tipped for the Bond role.</p>
<p>The full feature is in the August issue of Vanity Fair available on newsstands and digital download from Friday.</p>
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