Idris Elba Covers Esquire Magazine

Technically Idris co-covered the three September covers with Taylor Kitsch, Armie Hammer, Aaron Paul, Garrett Hedlund, and Aaron Johnson but a cover shot on the cover of a magazine is the cover.

Anywho, Idris and his boys are Esquire's Next Generation Hollywood Stars...see what the mag had to say about the bunch.

This month we put six people on the cover — young actors we think are poised to have tremendous years. Thing is, six is a lot to fit on one cover. So we split it into three, presented here side by side by side, just as God — and our photographer, Yu Tsai — intended. Each breakout is broken out below and in the slides ahead...

I'm here for Idris and more than likely you are too...so here!

Idris Elba

Exhibit A that Hollywood has been running low on male movie stars for some time now: When Tom Cruise bailed on Salt in 2008, the producers replaced him not with another man but with a woman — Angelina Jolie. (Who said the End of Men was all bad?) And yet things are starting to look up. Just last year, when Cruise opted not to pursue the role developed for him in Guillermo del Toro's alien-invasion epic Pacific Rim, the producers found an actor with enough weight, intensity, and wattage to take his place: Idris Elba. The thirty-nine-year-old English actor is known primarily to viewers of prestige television, first as Baltimore's Worst (drug kingpin Stringer Bell on The Wire) and more recently as London's Finest (volatile cop John Luther on Luther), and this year and next will introduce him more formally to moviegoers the world over. First came Elba's supporting role in this summer's Prometheus, captaining a spaceship and warming Charlize Theron's icy loins, which he'll follow with Pacific Rim next summer and Long Walk to Freedom, a biopic of Nelson Mandela in which Elba walks tall as the great man himself. Cruise, as far as we know, was never even considered for the part. That's progress.

Is it me or is Idris way beyond the Next Generation stage in his career? Hollywood can be so fickle...