After 20 years, Idris Elba has come around on the death of his The Wire character Stringer Bell. But when he first got word ...

The real-life inspiration for Stringer didn’t meet the same fate (thankfully). “The Wire” is famously based off of former ...

In a recent appearance on Amy Poehler's podcast, Idris Elba opened up about the iconic Stringer Bell scene from The Wire that ...

Idris Elba may have made a mark with his role on The Wire, but that doesn’t mean he watched the show. The 52-year-old English ...

The Wire never felt like just another cop show. You see that from the first episode, when a street corner murder feels bigger ...

Poehler, very much a member of the show's fan club, identified The Wire as "a series that changed my life" and revealed that ...

Elba played erudite but cold-hearted gangster Stringer Bell in three seasons of The Wire, one of the leaders of the drug ring ...

Idris Elba shot to fame while playing Stringer Bell in The Wire, the realistic crime drama considered by some to be the best ...

Idris Elba has insisted he will never watch The Wire. The 52-year-old actor had his breakout US role was criminal Russell ...

Series creator David Simon stated that Stringer's death wasn't personal but rather "to make a political point." ...

Idris Elba as Stringer Bell on “The Wire.” Paul Schiraldi/HBO. Elba replied, “It’s more that I feel the presence of it all, my life since ‘The Wire,’ in terms of its impact.

Idris Elba confessed that he has never seen a single episode of the HBO hit that made him a household name, and he has no intention of watching it now.