Idris Elba's Daughter Wouldn't Talk To Him For Three Weeks After She Wasn't Cast For 'Beast'

Hollywood has a long tradition of children acting alongside their famous parents. Sometimes the results are wonderful (see: "Paper Moon"), and other times they are not (see: "After Earth"). But it still seems like an experience that celebrity parents cherish.

So when Idris Elba was looking to cast his on-screen daughter in Baltasar Kormákur's new lion attack film "Beast," it was only natural for him to consider his real 20-year-old daughter. But during a recent appearance on "The Breakfast Club" (via Variety), he revealed that she was "not right" for the role. And unsurprisingly, the decision caused a bit of family tension in the Elba household.

"She wants to be an actress and she auditioned," Elba said of her daughter. “And you know, it ultimately came down to chemistry. You know, my daughter, she was great, but the relationship in the movie and the relationship with my daughter was – the chemistry wasn't right for the movie, weirdly enough. My daughter hasn't spoken to me for about three weeks."

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Will Packer, who produced the film, agreed with Elba's assessment. "Idris is right, some of the nuances of that real-life relationship sometimes don't translate to the screen," he said.

Even if Elba's daughter had been chosen, it might not have had any effect on the quality of the film. Ultimately, a movie like "Beast" was always going to be about the beast. In her review of the film, Kate Erbland of IndieWire wrote that "when Idris Elba fights a lion, you end up supporting the lion".

She added, "That's no problem for Elba, who remains one of our most charismatic and watchable movie stars. Nor is it a ding against the two young actresses. (Iyana Halley and Leah Jeffries) playing his daughters Hell, that's not even a mark against director Baltasar Kormákur's vision, which is often most compelling when the action-focused filmmaker dips his toes into the It all boils down to the genius idea of ​​pitting Elba against a big cat, which Engle kicks off with a gruesome feline origin story that can only inspire empathy for the very big cat. angry.

"Beast" is out in theaters now.

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