Idris Elba used to get eggs thrown at him because he is black.
The Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom actor and his classmates were targeted by racists as they got on the bus outside their east London school.
He recalled: "My school, Trinity, was just off the Barking Road, which would take all the National Front supporters to the football at West Ham.
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"They'd come past our school, and if we got on that bus on a game day... mate, if you were Indian or black you were getting it. Eggs thrown at you, the whole thing."