Posted by | Cyrena Rose
Golden-Globe winning actor/DJ Idris Elba graces the cover the October 2013 issue of GQ and (as his biggest fan) this is his best cover to date!
I am accustomed to reading articles about Idris (everyday) from DJ’ing gigs to red carpet events. However, in this issue of Gentlemen’s Quarterly the oh-so-private star opened-up and revealed parts of his personal life that left my mouth agape.
Elba shares how he was homeless, sold weed to make ends meet and even revealed to the men’s mag how he felt after finding out he was not the father of a boy that he believed to be his own child.
Enjoy the visuals from his shoot (lensed by Sebastian Kim) and an excerpt of the interview (written by Zach Baron) below. Also, check out the behind the scenes video of Idris sharing “How to Transform a Three-Piece into a Triple Threat.”
He was dating a woman in Florida, had been for a couple of years. They were living together and in love. She became pregnant and gave birth to a boy. For a brief moment, it was among the happiest times of Elba’s life. “The celebration of having a son—from a man’s perspective, it’s massive.” He told friends about it. He told reporters about it. Then came the suggestion—not from the child’s mother, but from elsewhere—that not everything was what it appeared to be. “It wasn’t immediately obvious—well, it was, because he didn’t look like me,” Elba says. “But it wasn’t immediately obvious what had gone down.”
To read the interview in its entirety, click here. Seriously RC fans, it’s eye-opening + check out the video of Idris below transforming a three-piece-suit into a triple threat!