Idris Elba Opens Up About the Challenges of Aging: ‘Our Bodies Fail Us’ in Our 50s

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  2. Good on you on making it to 50 before you felt this Mr. Elba! Mine’s been going downhill since my mid 30’s. But not being dead is nice so silver linings!

  3. Getting old sucks but, I don’t know if 50 is the start of the downhill slide. I’m hoping not because that’s just around the corner

  4. Please stay young enough so I can see you play John Stewart in an actual good Green Lantern film.

  5. lol, 50s?! It’s downhill from after 28-30.

    Great for him if it didn’t catch up to him till now.

  6. Mine started failing me in my late 20s, and I went from doing whatever I wanted to be cautious about pretty much everything. This lasted through my 30s. At age 40, I hit a new level where falling down at all… even slightly, always sucks.

    At this pace, I’m assuming by the time I hit my fifties, I’ll feel like I died 10 years ago.

  7. Congrats to being a living human being. It all ends the same way.

  10. Yeah, I was told that’s when the check engine light turns on.

  11. Can’t wait, I just turned 30 a few months ago and I already feel this

  14. No shit. I need a back fusion from the top of my head down to my butthole.

  17. I’m 57, he’s right. I was an athlete when I was younger and would boast about how I could still compete up until about 50 and things just began falling apart.

  18. Almost 51. I feel fine and ran 13 miles yesterday with no stops.

  19. I can confidently say that his body does not fail me.

  20. Our bodies don’t fail us, they just present us with the reality we are meant to face…love life, do not fear aging/death…it’s as normal as being born

  22. I had a sneezing attack the other day and threw out my back. Through my tears, I made my husband swear to me that he would tell people I did it doing a backflip in the pool.

    It was almost as bad as the time I hurt my back conquering a mountain (of laundry).

  23. Unlucky. My body made it to 350 before giving out.

  24. Things do get wonkier in your 50s, it’s a gradual slide

  25. I beg to differ. We fail ourselves in our 50’s and we’re directly responsible for it.

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