The 43-year-old actor was on set in a tense scene near a waterfall in Ghana when he slipped off a rock and the branch of a tree he held onto snapped.
Recalling the incident while filming the Netflix film Beasts of No Nation, in which he plays the warlord Commandant, Elba told The Jonathan Ross Show: “I nearly died … We decided to do this waterfall scene where all these child soldiers were walking behind this massive waterfall.
“I put my foot on this rock just to hang out and chill out while they were setting up and as I’m doing that it’s slippery, obviously.I slip… I put my hand on this tree – it’s not a tree, it’s a branch. It snaps and I go literally about six feet before I go bang over and I got caught by the security guy!” he shared
Netflix purchased worldwide rights to the film, directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Idris Elba as a sadistic warlord, for $12m (£7.8m). It furthers the streaming media company’s strategy to release high-profile, exclusive films.
Beasts of No Nation is the first of many high-profile projects by Netflix. Brad Pitt will appear in the military satire War Machine and Adam Sandler’s controversial comedy-western The Ridiculous Six will be available on Netflix in December.
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