Updated on Jan. 27 to add video of speech:Idris Elba is expected to make a speech about a lack of diversity on British television before members of Parliament and senior TV executives on Monday, according to The Guardian.Elba gained popularity after his breakout role as Stringer Bell on HBO's The Wire, won a Golden Globe award for his lead role on the BBC series Luther and is a current Screen Actors Guild Award nominee for his stint as Commandant in Beasts of No Nation.The London native is expected to point to his own experience having to move to the U.S. to land roles before being able to get a lead role in his home country, according to The Guardian, which has excerpts of his speech."I knew I wasn't going to land a lead role. I knew there wasn't enough imagination in the industry for me to be seen as a lead. In other words, if I wanted to star in a British drama like Luther, then I'd have to go to a country like America. And the other thing was, because I never saw myself on TV, I
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