'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' Stars Idris Elba As The Famed South African Leader

JOHANNESBURG -- JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Nelson Mandela was amused by the elaborate makeup process a British actor went through to play him in a film based on his autobiography, the movie's producer said Saturday of a special screening for the former South African president last year. "Is that me?" Anant Singh, the South African producer of "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," recalled a smiling Mandela as saying when he saw a picture of actor Idris Elba as an elderly version of the man who spent 27 yea...