Idris Elba poses Shirtless in this brand new cover feature for Interview Magazine‘s new issue.

Check out what the 43-year-old actor shared with the publication below:

On how success has has somewhat taken a toll on him: “When you break it down like that, it’s unhealthy to have that much going on. I don’t want to sound ungrateful or anything, but I sleep less, I’m constantly thinking, I’m constantly multitasking, and I really don’t know what the effects are going to be when I’m older. I don’t ever stop. Not because I’m greedy or anything, but I’m always creating, debating with the part of my brain that is dormant. Wondering how I can move in and create a bit more space and take a bit more time.[…] I do worry sometimes about whether I’m going to Burn out. Not burn myself out, but burn my art out, with audiences going, ‘Ah, yeah, I’ve seen enough now, thanks very much.’”

On his passion for DJ-ing but having to put it to the side once he signed on for “The Wire”: “What happened was, once I got The Wire, my life changed. I couldn’t DJ as much and I couldn’t take it seriously because my career as an actor was just getting to a place where I was finally making it in America. I wanted to be on American TV so much. I didn’t park DJ’ing; I just sort of ended up becoming more of a studio guy.”

On working with movie directors like Kenneth Branagh, Guy Ritchie, Ridley Scott and Guillermo Del Toro: “The most important thing, which I always look for, is their 360 vision of their Film. By 360, I mean every moment has been imagined once or twice, if not 50,000 times, within their heads, from performance to art direction and whatnot. It’s been a master class for me. Working with Guy on RocknRolla, he was embedded in every single detail of the film. You could literally spin him around in a blindfold and stop him somewhere and say, ‘What about this?’ and he’ll go, ‘Ah, that’s this.’ And you’re the same, and Ridley was exactly like that. Ridley would almost sort of cut the film [Prometheus] while he was watching the takes. Sometimes he’d do a full retake, and sometimes he’d go, ‘I just want to do this moment here.’”