Idris Elba on the importance of independent film to diversity: “I wouldn’t be here without it”

nme.com:

Idris Elba has written an essay on the importance of independent film and its impact on diversity, saying he “wouldn’t be here without it”.The actor reflected on his life and career in the film industry in the piece, recalling going to the cinema as a child and wanting to be on screen, as well as the need to protect independent cinemas in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.“Film isn’t elitist,” he wrote in the Times. “We all express ourselves through the stories we tell, what we watch and the communities we create.

One person’s film culture is watching Spider-Man at the Rio, another’s is going to a Kurosawa season at the BFI or catching the new Christopher Nolan movie at an Imax.