Idris Elba achieved a great feat when he became the first man to appear on the cover of Maxim Magazine.You would have thought people like David Beckham and Brad Pitt would be the first to be honored with this feat,but Idris Elba beat them all...Here's what Maxim had to say about their decision to feature Idris as the first man on their cover...after the cut
We’ve never in US Maxim history had a man on the cover solo,” Maxim’s new editor-in-chief Kate Lanphear told Racked about her decision to put Elba on the cover of the September issue. “This is the very first time, and there was no one else in the world more badass that Idris. For me, he was really the perfect embodiment of what I think the new ‘Maximman’ is,” Lanphear said. “He’s multi-dimensional, he’s complex, he’s sophisticated, but he’s down to earth. It was funny when on set, I was like, ‘Is there anything this guy can’t do?’