Idris Elba dreams of a future as a director: in a recent interview, he admitted that he would like to put acting aside to dedicate himself fully to directing.
In recent years Idris Elba he has acted in numerous films but, in the future, he wouldn’t mind sitting on the other side of the camera permanently. In fact, he confessed that in the near future he might even decide to slow down his career in acting to dedicate himself more to acting regia: this is his secret dream. But when will it come true?
Idris Elba wants to dedicate himself even more to directing in the future: “I want to become a full-fledged director”
Soon Idris Elba will return as the protagonist in a film sequel to Lutherafter having played the detective for years in the TV series of the same name and in the sequel film Luther: To hell. In the meantime he starred in other films such as Tyler Rake 2, Heads of State on the run e A House of Dynamitebut in the future he wishes to cultivate another area of his cinematographic career: that of director.
Guest of Red Sea International Film Festival 2025which took place in Saudi Arabia, the actor admitted that he would like to continue exploring that genre having already made his debut with Yardie in 2018. At the Festival, in reality, he presented his latest project as a director, the short film Dust To Dreams. “I hope my fans as an actor are not angry with me. Eventually I want to become a full-fledged director”, he told the Daily Mail.
“I’ve been acting for a long time, I still love it, but I think directing allows me to move in slightly different ways and be part of the set in a different way. I really like“, he added. His next directorial project is This Is How It Goesan Apple film that will be released soon and is based on the play by Neil LaBute. “The original is about a black man married to a white woman and a white man comes to live in their house, it’s about what happens to their relationship. I acquired the rights to the film and turned the story on its head. So we find a white man married to a black woman and a black man comes to live in their house. It’s an incredible analysis of marriage.”. It stated that it finished production in Ghana last week.
