Idris Elba recently told COMPLEX a story about how MJ shot down a request for Idris to play Mike on the big screen. Elba was at a Jordan Weekend getaway in the bahamas and said “playing Jordan wouldn’t be about playing the basketball player, it was about the businessman. He is a very astute businessman, really smart. And his work as a philanthropist is unspoken, but people don’t understand the work. He cares, he does a lot of work. So that’s where I was hinting at. I wanna play Jordan, I’m doing that. He was like, ‘I’m not ready for that story yet.”
