The 2015 scene that almost killed Idris Elba: “I was about to topple to my death”Making a movie can be incredibly dangerous. Even stunt doubles have ended up seriously injured or, worse, lost their lives in the pursuit of filming a movie. Her character wasn’t meant to be wearing a helmet, and as a result, neither did she, but the outcome was tragic. For Idris Elba, however, it was uneven terrain that resulted in his near-death experience, which he is lucky to have walked away from relatively unscathed. The filming of the 2015 movie Beasts of No Nation took the actor to a waterfall that, really, should’ve been more thoroughly inspected for safety issues.