He was The Wire's most famous kingpin, but in 2013 Idris Elba is set to become Hollywood royalty, carrying Guillermo Del Toro's mega-budget blockbuster Pacific Rim and portraying Nelson Mandela in an Oscar-bait biopic. In the March issue of GQ, Hackney's no. 1 son shares all on his biggest ambitions, the new series of Luther - and those Bond rumours…
The March 2013 issue of British GQ is out on 7 February.
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