Actor Idris Elba
Cast member Idris Elba, who portrays Nelson Mandela in the film, arrives for the Royal Premiere of "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" in London December 5, 2013. Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett
Cast member Idris Elba, who portrays Nelson Mandela in the film, arrives for the Royal Premiere of "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" in London December 5, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, plunging his nation and the world into mourning for a man hailed by global leaders as a moral giant. CREDIT: REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

It looks like Idris Elba is having jitters for the coming Golden Globe Awards on Sunday (U.S. time).

The actor who played the late Nelson Mandela in the biopic on the latter's life sits down with Chelsea Handler on Tuesday's episode of Chelsea Lately and dishes out what makes him nervous for the Golden Globes.

First, there's the logistical problem that came by being nominated for two awards and for two entirely different projects. Elba is nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," and Best Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Movie for "Luther."

"The problem is there's two tables to sit on. There's a Mandela table and there's a Luther table," Elba told Handler. "So, since I already won at the Luther table, I was going to sit at the Mandela table."

"But if I don't win that, I'm gonna run back to the Luther table and just be like, Hey, sorry about that, guys. I got this one."

He also got this problem of writing a speech in case he wins the Golden Globes for "Mandela."

"I've got to think about a speech, because you play someone like Nelson Mandela, you have to say something really important if you win," he related.

Meanwhile, he revealed to Handler that he also does DJing -- in fact, he put up a tribute album in honor of the late democtratic icon.

"When I was in South Africa I fell in love with the musicianship out there. I went here and recorded an album," Elba said who also joked that he goes by the DJ name of DJ Lately.

"I wanted to express how it felt to play Nelson Mandela and put it into somewhat a musical thing, like a character music."

Finally, it also turned out that both Elba and Handler have crossed paths before, back at Caroline's Comedy Club where the former was a doorman and the latter was a regular performer.

However, Elba remembered her but the latter did not. Apparently, the show's production team dug out this information, and that is how Handler knew about Elba's past work.

"I remember you - you wasn't very funny though," Elba quipped.