Almost a decade later, the versatile artist is back in the Swiss Alpine village with his wife, Sabrina Dhowre Elba, in a very different role: as an advocate for food security and efforts to combat climate change.
"There's no comparison," said the artist, whose talents range from spinning discs at the Coachella festival to playing South African anti-apartheid hero and president Nelson Mandela in"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom". Idris Elba, who played a ruthless drug gang leader in 'The Wire', cuts a very different image in Davos"People are listening, governments are stepping up, but not enough," Sabrina Dhowre Elba, a Somali-Canadian model, told AFP.
"What drives me is the unjustness of half the world eating and half the world not eating, and half the world causing considerable damage to our planet and the other half not contributing but starving and suffering from that damage the most," Elba told AFP.