Actor Idris Elba chose to be an actor after working in a car factory because it gave him the push he needed to follow his true passion.
The 'Pacific Rim' star revealed that the monotonous routine of working in a motoring assembly job pushed him to leave behind his home in London and move to New York City, reported Contactmusic.
"It happened at a time when I wasn't making any money from it. I was doing a night shift at the Ford factory in Dagenham with my dad and I knew that if I stayed there, I'd be a lifer. I took the moment to say, 'Stop! Go for it'. The next morning, I took a flight to New York but failed to get a job.
"I tried to get into the Lee Strasberg school but there was all sorts of red tape. But it gave me the energy to come back and do it. When I got back to London, the first thing I did was get a play," he said.
While his career began to take off in his native England, the 40-year-old actor knew he hit the big time after landing a role in US TV drama 'The Wire' in 2002.
