Idris Elba pokes fun at James Bond rumors on Twitter

Rumors that Idris Elba will be the next James Bond have been flying for, well, about a decade. 

But the actor fueled the latest batch of them — then dashed our hopes, maybe? — with a series of cryptic tweets on Sunday morning.

“My name’s Elba, Idris Elba,” he tweeted early on Sunday. Alongside this mysterious message: an art-filtered selfie that only Idris Elba could get away with.

If you were online at 4:02 a.m ET, congratulations. I envy the unfettered excitement you must have felt. Because less than five hours later, Elba tweeted a photo of Public Enemy, then this: Read more…

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