Idris Elba will be featured on the cover of British GQ this June—and we’re not complaining.
The sexy Hollywood actor, who stars in the sci-fi film Prometheus, due out on June 8, earned a GQ Recommends feature for the month.
In the spread Elba doles out fashion advice to the men, adorning his own tailor-made suits.
GQ had this to say about him:
“Idris has tailor made his own success. Decorated with a Golden Globe for his lead role in the police drama Luther, he has since been inundated with offers from Hollywood. Here, the star of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus takes the lead for GQ.”
What a talented man.
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