Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

taken by a South African government cameraman in 1977, has never been seen before. It shows Mandela's prison cell and near the very end, several seconds of a tightlipped Mandela, caught by the ...

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which documents Mandela’s 27 years in prison in South Africa. Elba said that before filming started, he “spent the night” in a prison cell on Robben Island, which is the same prison Mandela was in ...