{"id":166276,"date":"2013-12-21T23:37:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T23:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2013\/12\/21\/william-and-kate-cried-over-nelson-mandelas-death-reveals-idris-elba\/"},"modified":"2013-12-21T23:37:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T23:37:23","slug":"william-and-kate-cried-over-nelson-mandelas-death-reveals-idris-elba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/21\/william-and-kate-cried-over-nelson-mandelas-death-reveals-idris-elba\/","title":{"rendered":"William and Kate cried over Nelson Mandela\u2019s death reveals Idris Elba"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prince William and Kate Middleton were in tears when they heard that Nelson Mandela had died. Idris Elba, the star of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, has revealed that the royals were overcome with emotion at the screening of his biopic when the news broke.<\/div>\n
He told BBC Radio: \u201cThe Duchess Kate, sort of turned to me and looked at me as she had her phone and I wondered what was wrong with her because she looked quite emotional, but the film\u2019s very emotional.<\/div>\n
\u201cAnd my girlfriend looked at me and handed the phone and I looked down and there it was, Mandela had passed.\u201d<\/div>\n
The actor described it as \u201csurreal\u201d sharing such a key moment with William and Kate. \u201cI looked back at Prince William and Kate and they were just in tears with me. It was just odd, very odd.\u201d<\/div>\n
Idris explained that the message came at a very significant moment in the script.<\/div>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a moment in the film where I play older Mandela and he says this one line and it is \u2018Just open the gate and let me free,\u2019 and I kid you not, that was the one line when we heard the news.\u201d<\/div>\n
After the film\u2019s screening, he stood up to announce to the audience what had happened.<\/div>\n
As they left the auditorium the Prince was asked for his reaction. With his wife looking desperately sad besides him, he paid tribute to the elder statesman saying: \u201c\u201dIt is extremely sad and tragic news. We were just reminded of what an extraordinary and inspiring man Nelson Mandela was.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prince William and Kate Middleton were in tears when they heard that Nelson Mandela had died. Idris Elba, the star of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, has revealed that the royals were overcome with emotion at the screening of his biopic when the news broke. He told BBC Radio: \u201cThe Duchess Kate, sort of turned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}