
With a mother from Ghana and a father from Sierra Leone, Idris Elba was brought up in east London before finding fame in America. As he takes his place in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor, we send Afua Hirsch, half-Ghanaian herself, to unpick this most modern of British actors Idris Elba wants to know, on a scale of one to 10, how intimidating I find him in person. “Do you think I’m terrifying?” he asks. “I