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Idris Elba on adult illiteracy, having immigrant parents and being a self taught actor
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September 8, 2017
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13:27Now PlayingIdris Elba speaks about Project Literacy which works on helping illiterate adults learn to read. As a self-taught actor with no drama school training, he says his drive to teach himself came from immigrant parents telling him he had to work ten times harder than the white kids.
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