Netflix. And Golden globe winner Idris, 48, today reveals he was so determined to learn to ride and star in Concrete Cowboy he battled through an allergy to horses. “On the first full day of training, I was scoffing down antihistamines, because my eyes get swollen and my skin blotches out,” said the Luther star. “So that was the first learning curve for me, to be able to sit on a horse without crying my eyes out. ”Part of his determination to tell the story of the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club – set up in Philly’s toughest neighbourhood by 81-year-old Ellis Ferrell in 1980 – is that it was recently threatened with closure. “There has been a real miss-telling of history around black people, and horses and cowboys,” he said.
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