Idris Elba's American breakout role was as Stringer Bell in The Wire, but the actor hasn't gone back to revisit his performance.

Elba played erudite but cold-hearted gangster Stringer Bell in three seasons of The Wire, one of the leaders of the drug ring being surveilled in the police operation that gives the all-time-great show its name.

Idris Elba has come around on the death of his The Wire character Stringer Bell. But when he first got word of his departure from the show, the actor admits he was less than thrilled. "I had reservations about how Stringer was dying,