Idris Elba is something of an icon, even if you can't remember
his name. The British-born actor has done everything from HBO's
immortal series "The Wire" (recently named, by Entertainment
Weekly, as the greatest show of all time) to portraying a super-
heroic gatekeeper in Marvel's "Thor" and its upcoming sequel
"Thor: The Dark World." He can literally do anything -- and
often does.  This weekend Elba stars in Guillermo del Toro's
"Pacific Rim." As Stacker Pentecost, he leads the human
resistance in the 11th hour against giant monsters called kaiju.
Pentecost still believes in a program he helped develop to
defeat the kaijus: the jaeger program. Jaegers are robots,
roughly the same shape and size of the monsters that have
crawled out of an inter-dimensional rift in the Pacific Ocean
floor.  We got to talk to the veteran actor about what it was
like inside one of the jaegers, why he was so excited to work
with Guillermo del Toro, and what's in store for "Thor 2."
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