If anybody is going to fight a lion in a movie, it’s going to be Idris Elsa. And he does exactly that in ‘Beast’ (August 19). “We've put a movie together that feels like a popcorn movie,” Elba told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Elba plays Dr. Nate Daniels, a widower who takes his two daughters to a South African game reserve to heal the loss of their mother until things go dangerously wrong. “It's a survival film with an African American family. Culturally, I felt like something that we hadn't seen before.” In addition to ‘Beast,’ Elba can also be seen this month in the film ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ with Tilda Swinton. And, of course, H. Alan had to ask Elba about his stint on ‘The Office.’

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