Celebrate Mandela's 95th With New Movie Trailer

It's the week of curious timing when it comes to movie trailers. Not only did the first teaser for The Fifth Estate — Benedict Cumberbatch's Julian Assange film — hit the Web amid reports that fellow whistleblower Edward Snowden was still searching for asylum, but the trailer for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom hits the Internet the same day as Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday.

But unlike The Fifth Estate, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom focus on a far more heroic figure in politics, with Luther's Idris Elba delivering an uncanny impression of the anti-apartheid revolutionary. Watch Elba baiting a little gold man named Oscar in the trailer below, and ask yourself how Obsessed ever happened:

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, which co-stars Bond babe Naomie Harris as Winnie Mandela, hits theaters this fall, when, based on his rapid recovery, Mandela himself can hopefully head to the theater to see it himself.

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