British actor Idris Elba, one of the favourites to be the next James Bond, has revealed how he almost died while shooting Beasts Of No Nation, when he slipped near a waterfall in Ghana.

The 43-year-old actor, who plays warlord Commandant in the Netflix film, admitted he had a lucky escape when his foot slipped off a rock and the branch he held on to snapped.

“I nearly died. I was doing this scene – we decided to do this waterfall scene where all these child soldiers were walking behind…
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The loss of innocence is one of cinema’s favourite themes, but it’s rarely because an AK-47 is aiming at someone’s head. Beasts of No Nation, a Netflix exclusive from True Detective director Cary Fukunaga, is a spellbinding yet harrowing parable about a nation’s destructive past and uncertain future, and a boy’s horrific journey across the thin line between them.

Witnessing the death of his entire family by his own government, the scared young Agu (Abraham Attah) flees to the jungle,…
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A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.
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