Idris Elba covers the new issue of Details. It’s a really good photoshoot, with lots of bare chest and Dris Nipples, but I dislike the photo they chose for the cover. The cover shot makes Idris look like he’s been crying. Which is also sort of hot, in a “I would comfort that lovely man all night long” sort of way. The Details interview is so-so – you can read it here. There are no big confessions about his new baby or his partner or anything like that. You can tell that the dude who wrote it up has a bit of a man-crush though. Idris is described as “Six feet three and built like a stack of cannonballs” in between details like “[he] sipped peppermint tea.” Here are some highlights:

Returning to London after years spent in America: “This is where my ambition started, you know? I fell in love with a movie—some live-action Spider-Man at the Rio in Shoreditch. Saturday-matinee situation, kids climbin’ all over. But I was just fascinated. I knew from age 10 that this was the industry I wanted to be in… It’s fascinating now, being back here. It’s a real check-up, you know? I haven’t lived here for 15 years, but there’s a familiar feeling I have from before I went to America. It’s a hunger to get there. I have it here. I feel it again.”

Life after playing Nelson Mandela: “You know, I’d just played this iconic human being, and the scripts I got afterward were sort of . . . disappointing. It’s hard not to sound disgruntled sometimes as an actor… Look, I know that I work a lot, but I’d prefer to wait sometimes because I don’t want to just do rubbish films anymore or characters that anyone can play.”

He plays a bad guy in his new film, No Good Deed: “There must be some demons within me, because I sort of enjoyed having that rage. The other actors were like, ‘Oh my God, you’re terrifying the s–t out of me!'”

He likes to mix it up in the kitchen: “I like to cook. I went to Trinity boys’ school, Canning Town, East London, the edge of the industrial world. But we had this home-economics class where you got tough lads like me and my mates learning how to cook, and I absolutely loved that….Cooking and riding the bike, they’re therapeutic: Both make you get out of your own head for a little while. It’s a massive reset.”

[From Details]

Yeah, I didn’t learn much about Idris in this piece, but maybe that’s how he likes it too. I mean, he’s on social media and he reveals some stuff about his personal life, but it seems like he enjoys NOT being a tabloid regular. I did learn that his newborn son, Winston, is named after Idris’s late father. I also learned that Idris has some meaningful tattoos, including “THE LONG AWAITED GIFT BEARER” in honor of his daughter Isan. He also has “MOSES” tattooed on his arm in honor of “the paternal grandfather he never had a chance to meet.”

By the way, have you seen the trailer for No Good Deed? It looks genuinely disturbing. God, I love Taraji.

Photos courtesy of Mark Seliger/Details.