"In 2013, when I was preparing to play Nelson Mandela in the film Long Walk to Freedom, I spent the night in a prison cell on ...
Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela in the ... he “spent the night” in a prison cell on Robben Island, which is the same prison ...
In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...