Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)
I’m turning 50 soon & I can’t even bear to say it out loud
Everyone talks about Bond – but for me it is Luther... I hope this becomes my Bond IDRIS ON EXCITEMENT OVER MOVIE VERSION OF TV SHOW
is a huge achievement for everyone who has written it. I am happy after seeing it. Even if you have never seen an episode of Luther you can still be invited to the first chapter of the film series. “I am hoping that this movie becomes my Bond. Everyone talks about Bond, but for me it is Luther.” Juggling his screen project with an Ibiza DJ residency, Idris says people are often shocked by how much he works.
“It probably looks more insane than it is, but my manager Katie would say, ‘You’re not human. How do you split yourself up?’ I’m a workaholic. I love working. I’m really fortunate that my day job allows me to do big films, and do car commercials and whatever, but at the same time, my passion in life is music and DJing, I work hard at it. I don’t slack.
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“To get credibility, you have to put the hours in, especially if people know you for one thing.”
And when he’s not working, he’s enjoying downtime with his third wife Sabrina, 33. They married three years ago and work together on podcast Coupledom and skincare range Sable. He describes her as “the best thing ever to happen. We are very much in love”.
The star – who has daughter Isan, 20, with ex-wife Kim Nørgaard and eight-year-old Winston with former girlfriend Naiyana Garth – said lockdown life brought him and Sabrina even closer together.
“The pandemic found us, like most people, locked into a space. Quickly you saw more of each other than you would usually see,
because you are together 12 or 15 hours a day. It was a real learning experience but it cemented our relationship. We are good to spend time apart and also good being together in silence. She is a very kind person and opened up.
“Marriage is awesome. But you have to work at marriages.
“Hopefully I have found a partnership that works.”