Idris Elba's Favorite Scene from "The Wire" is Probably What You'd Expect

Also, Nic Cage loves vampires.

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Idris Elba did a Reddit AMA yesterday to promote his new movie No Good Deed and he talked about everything from The Wire to The Jungle Book to Nicolas Cage. OK, not everything—nobody asked about that whole mike wire thing. A fan did ask, though, what his favorite scene from The Wire is, and it's a pretty memorable one: when he (Stringer Bell) tells Avon he had D'Angelo killed. 

"It was a very Shakespearean Scene. And Avon and Stringer end up on the floor. It's actually the scene that sealed Stringer Bell's fate, although he didn't know it. I remember Wood and I, we sat in a trailer - and discussed what we were going to do pretty much all day. And ended up going in on set. It was incredible," he wrote.

Oh and Nicolas Cage is totally obsessed with vampires. Because why wouldn't he be? 

"Nic Cage came back one day on set, and he came down to set and he looked a little bit tired, a little bit - kind of like he'd ben up all night. So I was like "hey Nic man, how you doing man" and he said "i'm alright' and I said "You seem a little spoked out" and he said "Yeah man, I went up to Dracula's castle...the ruins up in the mountains, and I stayed the night" and i said "What?! Why|?" and he said "I just had to channel the energy, and it was pretty spooky up there." We were shooting in Romania, Transylvania, and he just went up there to spend the night, as you do.

And then he walked away.

True story."

Sounds about right. A fan also asked if it was true that Wire creator David Simon was working on a prequel, as Elba's costar Dominic West said in an interview. "Ahahaha. Well, that's absolute news to me, I haven't heard of it before. It sounds quite incredible. And...yeah, yeah I will ask him [Simon]." 

You can read the whole thing here.

[via Reddit]

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