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Daniel Craig covers the August issue of Esquire Magazine. Now… I don’t want another rage-filled thread where half of you are yelling at me for saying that Daniel Craig is sexy, and that he and Rachel Weisz are HOT together. So let me clarify: HE IS HOT. The man can wear the hell out of a pair of blue jeans. The man’s piercing blue eyes give me a fever (in my biscuits). The man can also ACT. I love his smaller, less showy performances in pre-James Bond films – Munich and The Mother are favorites of mine, as well as Layer Cake and Sylvia (he was Ted Hughes opposite Dame Gwyneth’s Sylvia Plath). Try and tell me he’s not hot after watching those movies. It’s impossible.
Anyway, Daniel is promoting Cowboys & Aliens, which is a film that I’m kind of worried about. I’m worried that it will either majorly bomb and it will set Daniel’s career back, and I’m also worried that it could be a monster hit and Daniel will be somehow forced into another franchise… this one with Olivia Wilde (ugh). But Daniel doesn’t talk much about the film – he doesn’t really talk much about anything, really. He doesn’t talk in soundbytes, and the Esquire writer makes it clear that Daniel would prefer to talk about politics and current events rather than his Method. You can read the whole thing here, and here are some highlights:
On the next Bond film, and playing Bond: “No-no-no, Sam’s gonna do it, Sam Mendes, and I’m really f’ing really lookin’ forward to the fact that he’s gonna do it,” he says, snapping to. Mendes directed him in the gloomy thriller Road to Perdition in 2002. Craig tricks out a little smirk then. A concession, a comfort maybe. “This has become my way, it’s as simple as that,” he says. “I mean, since I’ve just become James Bond. And I think, you know, that means being something that people feel they own. And all of the sudden I’m getting magazine covers, when I got nothing for ten years before that. I say it’s just pure luck. And doing covers, people interviewing me, and they want to know everything and I’m going, I’m not gonna f–king tell you!” Craig settles once more into the clutch of his muscular recline. “Well, you know,” he says, sliding the Ray-Bans from his nose. “I mean this is actually very nice. We can talk about anything else, and hopefully it can be made interesting.”
On his daughter, who is going to college in America: “I don’t really talk about her, because — well, she can’t defend herself. But she’s fantastic. Fantastic, and she’s — you know, she’s doing something.” A certain lightness comes over him then, a loosening of the features, a squaring of the hips to the table edge. The sun angles along the courtyard wall, and on his face: the shine of a pride not often allowed out for a walk. “I mean, she’s finishing her education, in the States. I said, ‘Look, there’s an opportunity here, you should take it.’ I’m in that position, and I guess that’s something that feels more than lucky. It feels essential.”
On his own childhood and education: For him as a boy, he says, it was more luck. “I’d left home at sixteen, so I was independent and I could apply. I got a full grant. But I got full grant and full maintenance, which is f-ck-all, but I mean, it made the difference. I got through college,” he says.
To the father of an indecisive high school kid: “I think you have to put your foot down. You just say, ‘Look, I’m gonna have to break my balls here to do this, so therefore you need to make a decision so I can plan the rest of my f–king life.’ I mean, it’s like, you’re eighteen — let’s get on with this. I mean, that’s easy for me to say to you. Oh, f–k, I’m doing it to you now, aren’t I? On kids, it’s a different thing. But I do think there’s a — okay, ultimately at eighteen, I remember … you just don’t really know. And actually they kinda need someone to say, ‘F–k it, just do what I tell you!’ And then, you know, for f–k’s sake, if he’s there for a year and he’s really f–king unhappy, he can change.” He mumbles then, about ten syllables, spoken as if into a cloth napkin gripped by a fist. “He can move.”
On a new generation: “But it’s all built around that, and, you know, you just hope a generation’s gonna come who very soon is just gonna turn around and say, ‘Hang on a second. I don’t like being f–king manipulated like this. I don’t like being told what to do, I don’t like being told what to buy’ — you kind of hope it’s gonna happen. And there’s gonna have to be a shift. I mean, the big companies will figure it out. They’ll go, ‘Oh, you don’t want that anymore? You want this.’ And they’ll figure it out, but at least there’ll be kind of a change in attitude towards it. I mean, I don’t know. We’ve had student riots here. And whatever way you think about politics, the fact that students have — there’s no such thing as free education anymore. That’s kind of gone, and they’re gonna put up a fight. But you know, there was a time when it was free, and education was paid for.”
On The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: “It’s as adult as you can possibly make it. This is adult drama. I grew up, as we f–king all did, watching The Godfather and that, movies that were made for adults. And this is a $100 million R-rated movie. Nobody makes those anymore. And Fincher, he’s not holding back. They’ve given him free rein. He showed me some scenes recently, and my hand was over my mouth, going, Are you f–king serious?” He raises his eyes, looks upward to describe what he saw in a set of Fincher’s dailies that startled him this way. You can imagine — the book contains sodomy and torture chambers and lighting people on fire. And yet, “it’s not that he simply showed me footage that was horribly graphic,” Craig says. “It was stuff that was happening, or had happened. And somehow you don’t see it.” This is the adult thing: to not be obvious about it. “There’s more than one way to sense violence,” he says. “Much more powerful ways than seeing it step-by-step.”
On his small part in Spielberg’s TinTin: “We shot it in mo-cap. Which is like: F–k me, I’m literally in a leotard with a f’ing helmet on, and a camera strapped to it. It’s Steven Spielberg, so every f–ker in the world comes to visit. Fincher comes to visit. Clint f’ing Eastwood comes to visit. It was just like, are you kidding me? I’m gonna meet these people dressed like this? Playing a pirate, wearing a leotard and a camera? Really?”
[From Esquire]
There are some decent quotes from various directors that he’s worked with, and one of them (Jim Sheridan) compares Daniel to Peter O’Toole, calling Daniel perhaps the only British “movie star” working today. It’s an interesting thought – although I would never think to compare O’Toole to Craig… it kind of works. You know what works better? Daniel Craig and Richard Burton. That fits.
Oh, and in case you thought Daniel didn’t mention Rachel Weisz at all… he didn’t. But at one point, he talks a call and he doesn’t identify who is on the line to the journalist. This is what happens: “His phone rings, vibrates, and this too rattles the glass. He excuses himself, stays seated, and takes the call. Who is it? There’s no way to know, is there? Craig puts his sunglasses back on as he speaks — a curious gesture. He explains his schedule, looks at his watch, keeps his eyes low, his gaze downward. He tells the other person: what time he’ll be leaving the courtyard, when he’ll be home…He listens for a moment, then says goodbye and I love you.” It just had to be Rachel, right? Sigh…
Photos courtesy of Esquire.
Written by Kaiser
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Nah..he is NOT HOT!!
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I do find him hot..
that being said…that interview if you can call it that was shit.
If you can’t talk then don’t give the interview.. easy. Tired of celebrities agreeing to give an interview then they don’t say shit. I don’t care if he talks about his kid or Rachel..but that piece has nothing in it whatsoever.. BOring.
He needs to work on his interview skills.
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awwww….I’m so jealous of Rachel right now.
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HE IS HOT. What I like about him is that he hasn’t an ordinary beauty. He’s got a face.
And the part with Rachel: MAJOR QUIVER….
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Not hot (maybe the voice and eyes) but not hot.
When blonde, he reminded me of a caucasian albino man I know.
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YES, HE IS.
A real MAN. Not a metrosexual wimp like actors I could mention who won the “sexiest man alive” contest…
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Craig can never, ever compare to O’Toole. And not hot, especially with that odd looking, mean mouth. That is the only word I can use to describe it, it is just not attractive to me.
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@saintdevil; cosign.
not beefy but great physique,not pretty,sharp features,no beer belly,piercing eyes[those always get me in a guy.lol],confident but not posing arrogantly.i could go on and on.
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He’s definitely not “conventionally” handsome but he’s one sexy motherf*cker.
I know he has weird lips and funny looking ears, but all the rest is amazing. Love his voice (I’m imagining the “I love you” in that voice right now), his ass (I’d have made a bronze statue of it if I could) and his piercing blue eyes (that says a lot because I do prefer extremely dark eyes). And I don’t know why but I have the feeling he’s great in bed (and other furniture).
I think he’s a great actor — and I also appreciate the fact he hasn’t become typecast after Bond.
@ Kaiser:
You should watch Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon. You won’t regret it, I promise.
P.S.: I went to see Casino Royale with a friend and when the close-up of his face is showed in the end of the opening credits she said: “They enhanced the blue of his eyes”. I explained to her that his eyes were indeed that blue (which she was able to confirm throughout the movie).
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He is hot, not the boy next door kinda hot but he is attractive MAN and looks good in his clothes…I keep thinking about that James Bond Movie where he came out of the sea …huba huba… he has a banging bod and a great voice
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Sorry, I just don’t see the hot. That photo shoot is ridiculous, trying way too hard to achieve a bad-ass cool vibe. And his hair looks like Barney Rubble’s.
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And his hair looks like Barney Rubble’s.
Yabba dabba doo me, please!
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he is a endless twit!
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@ Eve: ITA…LMAO
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He oozes masculinity….thats what makes him sexy. But I like bad ass guys who are men and not girlie….kind of like my husband. But he is also sweet and patient….:)
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He really likes to say “I mean” a lot.
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this guy is a sex bomb. anyone who can be fully clothed in a shower and still make me literally have to get up from my seat to calm myself must possess extraordinary hotness.
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To me, he is as sexy as he is an eloquent speaker… that is, not at all.
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i am on the HE-IS-SEX train… i think he is absolutely gorgeous
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Never got the deal with the appeal this dude has with women (and men, too). My girlfriend thinks he resembles a rodent, and finds him an utter bore fest.
Well…then again, with a Greek God like me, what more does she want?
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One word: HOT
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Ugh, I like him, but I’m so tired of people thinking that something is “free” when it’s paid for by tax dollars. It’s not free. It’s just as expensive if not more so because the government middlemen are taking a cut. Seriously, I like him and his comments, but I can’t take this crap about education being free in the UK. No it ain’t and it never way. It’s just that your neighbors are paying for it. Go thank them.
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Quote – ‘then, a loosening of the features, a squaring of the hips to the table edge. The sun angles along the courtyard wall, and on his face: the shine of a pride not often allowed out for a walk’
Who wrote this dribble? It reads like something out of a Mills and Boon novel. THE SHINE OF PRIDE…what???
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Oh man, he’s so rugged. I love him. Although I wouldn’t go near a man like him in real life…possibly too “man” for me.
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Not handsome in the conventional way, but HOT in ways few other men in showbiz (except Clive Owen or pocket rocket Jeremy Renner) can equal. A MAN! I am very happy in pants right now… *sigh*
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If this is true and it was indeed Weisz who called then kudoz, this is precisely how you handle these things. Without pretending it’s no one important but giving the journalist as little as possible.
Sure they will write whatever they want but I like that he’s neither going paranoid (and ignoring the call, which would be stupid), nor bringing her into conversation and talking about their situation. Some celebs could take lessons.
Anyway, that’s my piece of over-analyzing.
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craig the craggy
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no he is not ‘pretty’, but he absolutely exudes sex. I agree.
and while I may not personally be attracted to him [I am not],objectively speaking, I can definitely feel that sexuality exuding from him-he’s a man, as said already….
he dresses the part [even out andabout in candids, you can tell]; his interview was bordering on Keith Richards-esque, however.
But it kind of made him endearing to me…..aw, he’s all quirky and eccentric? I didn’t know that….he’s random, or he doesn’t like being interviewed….
anyway, i don’t know how ppl can say that he’s not hot as in sex appeal. He has a certain je ne sais quois.
I think we are too saturated with metrosexuals and pretty boy faces that we have come to assicate this with the only form of hotness that exists….
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Oh god, he is steaming! I’m no pretty boy fan and he’s got serious charisma.
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I can’t get past all the F***s. Not because I’m prudish, but because it litters and taints all that he says.. All I hear is the Fs. Wow, I don’t think he’s hot any longer! I couldn’t stand having a conversation with him!
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He does absolutely NOTHING for me at all. Sorry but I don’t find him attractive in the slightest and I *have* seen some of his films.
He is a good actor in the right part, although I actually really hate his interpretation of Bond. Worst one in the franchise IMHO.
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SLURP
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@Kaiser: I’ll checkout Sylvia and you should see him in Flashbacks of a Fool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp-mUYqngRc
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Okay, I can see how they try to make him into a sex bomb, and he tries to give off that vibe, but although I’ve seen his movies, I don’t see the hot, sorry. His F-bomb filled interview was a turnoff, too. It makes him seem too superficial for some reason. Some of these actors are so overrated….
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Well I think he’s f’ing hot! Not conventionally handsome by any means but the man’s got a great body, raw sensuality and a quiet kind of intensity which I dig. I also think he’s a damn fine actor.
That interview though, it was badly articulated. I only caught one phrase in ten. I give him a pass though, not everyone can speak off the cuff and be interesting, witty and charming.
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I think he looks like he has a turkey baster stuck to his face, bulb side down, and large clown ears pinned onto the side of his head… his mouth is tiny and set so low that by the time he’s 80 he will look even more like Droopy Dog. His head is too big for his body – he’s just goofy looking to me. If that guy tried to come at me with romance I’d just laugh my head off. lol
And as far as acting is concerned – his face is completely blank 98% of the time – He’s like Zoolander and “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” And he’s not alone – there are a few male felas out there getting lead roles who do this whole – blank face for every situation and the more impressionable people in the audience read the situation/music/other actors who are actually acting to translate what his blank face “means”… erg… it’s annoying and wierd to me.
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You could definitely see your skills within the paintings you write. The arena hopes for even more passionate writers like you who aren’t afraid to say how they believe. All the time go after your heart.
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