Nice.
The Brit was one of the big winners at the Screen Actors Guild Awards at the weekend and gave a nod to ‘diverse TV’.
Elba won the award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a miniseries or TV movie for ‘Luther’ and the supporting actor award for ‘Beasts of No Nation’.
When presenting a clip of the Netflix film alongside his young Ghanaian co-star, Abraham Attah, Elba joked: “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to diverse TV” in reference to the Oscars race row.
Watch his speech collecting the award for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role for ‘Beasts Of No Nation’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFHREy_KYBg
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