{"id":2268747,"date":"2026-02-05T22:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2268747"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:57:26","slug":"how-the-wire-star-idris-elba-really-feels-about-stringer-bells-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-the-wire-star-idris-elba-really-feels-about-stringer-bells-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Wire Star Idris Elba Really Feels About Stringer Bell’s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You can call Stringer Bell many things. As one of the lead characters on HBO’s seminal crime drama “The Wire<\/a>,” he showed his intelligence by attempting to apply Economics 101 philosophies to transform the dangerous Barksdale drug-dealing operation into a respectable business. He’s cold and calculating, willing to do whatever it takes to improve the bottom line. He’s also suave and charismatic, the kind of cool-headed general you want running your business.<\/p>\n

Just don’t call him a role model \u2014 at least not when talking with Idris Elba<\/a>, who played Bell for three seasons until he (spoiler alert for a 20 year old…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You can call Stringer Bell many things. As one of the lead characters on HBO’s seminal crime drama “The Wire,” he showed his intelligence by attempting to apply Economics 101 philosophies to transform the dangerous Barksdale drug-dealing operation into a respectable business. He’s cold and calculating, willing to do whatever it takes to improve the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2268748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2268747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/How-The-Wire-Star-Idris-Elba-Really-Feels-About-Stringer.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268749,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268747\/revisions\/2268749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}