Or, if you’re Idris Elba, you spend a night in prison. Back in 2013, Idris Elba played Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, based on the memoir the South African leader wrote after spending nearly three decades in prison.

Idris and ex-girlfriend Naiyana Garth welcomed their son on 17 April 2014, with Idris sharing the happy news with a sweet black-and-white photo of their fingers intertwined. "My son, Winston Elba, was born yesterday. Truly amazing," he shared on social media.

Idris Elba's wife Sabrina Elba opened up about the pair's "good and bad days" and the rule they have in place when it comes to mixing marriage with their joint business

Idris Elba's wife Sabrina Elba had been dreaming of going to law school since she was a child, but this all changed when she met the actor back in 2017

The murder of Ronan Kanda shocked the nation. Walking home minding his own business, Ronan's life was cruelly taken away by two other teenagers in a shocking case of mistaken identity

A former young offender who has turned his life around after going to prison three times and is now mentoring young people is backing Idris Elba's calls to take drastic action to end knife crime now

Jim Webster, who was Plymouth's police Commander between 2007 and 2009, oversaw a number of high profile investigations including nursery paedophile Vanessa George and Exeter bomber Nicky Reilly. During his reign he suggested that one way to reduce the number of victims of stabbings was a fundamental but simple redesign of kitchen knives.

One family affected by the violence is that of Ronan Kanda who was murdered two doors down from his home on June 29, 2022. His killers, Sukhman Shergill and Prabjeet Veadhesa, had mistaken him for another teenager who lived on the same road.

Idris Elba is recalling how he prepared to play Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. “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 Robben Island,

The star has been married three times. His first wife was Hanne “Kim” Norgaard, with whom he shares daughter Isan, from 1999 to 2003. He was also married to Sonya Nicole Hamlin for less than a year in 2006.

“It's a real indication of how much we have failed young people,” he says at one point, amid stories about 16 year-old Harry Pitman, who was stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve at Primrose Hill, and Shawn Seesahai, 19, who was stabbed to death by two boys aged 12 in Wolverhampton.