British actor Idris Alba is probably pretty happy to be playing such bad-asses, like Heimdall in the Thor franchise and Pentecost in Pacific Rim, but at one point, he was approached to play another bad-ass: Luke Cage.

“There was talk about Luke Cage at one time – I thought Luke Cage was a pretty interesting character. They were going to do it, but I don’t know what happened,” Elba told The Huffington Post.

What are your thoughts about who should play Luke Cage?

[via The Mary Sue]