{"id":639435,"date":"2026-06-15T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639435\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T07:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:13:09","slug":"sir-idris-elba-punched-me-in-masters-of-the-universe-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639435\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Idris Elba &#8216;punched&#8217; me in Masters of the Universe movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elba plays Duncan, general of the royal army and in charge of training the young troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Galitzine appears as He-Man, with Camila Mendes, Jared Leto and Alison Brie also appearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Riordan, who is from Upminster in east London, said she was &#8220;ecstatic&#8221; to win the role of young Dian, a member of the royal guard trained with He-Man as a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She kind of bullies him at school, so it was quite fun to play that sort of role, because I haven&#8217;t played something quite mean [before],&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described the stunt training as &#8220;really fun&#8221;, adding that she found some synergy with her co-star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The older version of me, Christiaan (Bettridge) &#8211; she&#8217;s trained in ballet and she&#8217;s also a stunt woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So, when she was doing the stunt, she was really elegant and I&#8217;m trained in ballet as well. So people say that we had very similar styles in the combat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elba plays Duncan, general of the royal army and in charge of training the young troops. Galitzine appears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-639435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}