The Spectre promotional tour has started, and you know that Grumpy Bugger Daniel Craig hates his life right now. These photos are from Daniel, Christoph Waltz and Monica Bellucci’s stop in Rome on Tuesday. I’m including the photocall and premiere photos. Monica wore Alaia Azzedine to the photocall, but I can’t find the ID on the premiere look, the all-black ensemble. The Alaia look is unflattering though, right? Daniel looks nice.
Daniel and Monica chatted with Entertainment Weekly about how “revolutionary” (Monica’s word) it was to have a Bond Girl a few years older than Bond. Daniel once again stood up for his on-screen love interest, which makes me like him even more. Here’s what Daniel says about using the Bond Girls to propel the story forward, as opposed to fantasy fulfillment:
“We should be way past this conversation but we’re not. It’s kind of about time, don’t you think? These are strong human beings who have a major part to play in the movie. But it’s a Bond movie and he’s a bit of a sexist. Let me put it this way: he’s not very good. I think he’s quite sad and lonely a lot of the time. And women are a way to not feel sad and lonely. It’s a fine line to walk. You don’t want to flip it the other way and have it be self-conscious. You want to have conflict within the scenes with strong women and him. ‘Oh, she gives as good as she got.’ That’s cool.”
Daniel also had to answer more questions about who should take over the franchise and someone asked him if One Direction’s Niall Horan might be up for it. Daniel gamely played along, saying Niall is a “good man” who would be “absolutely fabulous” as Bond. I’m cringing on Daniel’s behalf.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Dammit he’s making me like him more and more. And Monica’s dress is beautiful.
When actors get questions like that one of Niall I really feel bad for them, yeah, they get a lot of money but can’t really give the answers we give here all the time. Oh the filter they need not to tell some people to f*ck off ^_^
What’s happening in that picture with the jeans?
I’m becoming more and more interested in him. It’s always interesting when an actor calls a spade a spade and isn’t afraid to speak bluntly. I quite enjoy his style and the way he’s so realistic and complimentary.
Craig is wearing dad jeans. That’s what’s happening in that picture.
He can’t quit now! Imho, Spectre is the best Bond film he’s done yet. The MI6 characters are all so well played and the scenes with Bond and Q are great. It was like a modernised, old-fashioned Bond film. The producers should be begging him to stay on because he’s done great things for this franchise.
I love him. I like that he’s a straight shooter too. He’s right about Bond. I saw photos of him and Rachel Weisz at one of the Bond premieres this week and they were so cute. They looked so in love.
I don’t agree. When I read the books and watched the movies in my younger years, to me Bond was the epitome of someone who knows what he wants and gets it. He is sexist, yes, but he does love women and loves to love them. In my mind, all of the women he was with knew exactly what he was – a playboy – and they used him as much as he used them. I don’t see him as being sad or lonely at all, and certainly not trying to fill up his time with women to make up for it.
And this is why he’s my favourite Bond. It’s that simple. Oh, and look at how he knows where to touch his female costar and Waltz doesn’t. Teehee.
A curmudgeon of the first water, but so HOT! Fans self.
Ha, he is so right!
I gotta say – the chemistry in the first photo between Daniel and Monica is HOT!
I just have to disagree, as to callinf him sexy and one of the best “BOND MAN”.I DO AGREE ON THE SEXIST COMMENT AND ARROGANCE… WHICH IS QUITE UNBECOMING. LET’S GET A REAL BOND MAN BACK.. Perhaps a GENTLEMAN LIKE SEAN CONNERY. OF COURSE IT IS JUST MY OPINION.. AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE DIE HARD FANS IF HIS THAT STRENUOUSLY DISAGREE.
A gentleman like Sean Connery??? Really? Have you read some of the things he’s said about women, or the accusations against him for (allegedly) hitting his girlfriend(s)? He was also a working class Scot, which makes the idea of Idris Elba as too “street”/Cockney/black completely ridiculous.
Daniel happens once in a lifetime. In an industry so full of false and itself, he is a rare exception and a real pleasure. A true feministl on top of that. Without much shouting and high pitch declarations, he stands up for women in general and against a particular case like ageism. Well done.
For all that Craig is Grumpy Bear Incarnate, I have to give him props for being remarkably clear eyed regarding the misogynist and sexist origins/foundations of James Bond and that he addresses those issues in the media.
I love it when an actor makes mad money over a decade or so playing an iconic character and then on the way out the door starts smearing the product for politically correct expediency. Really shows what a true SJW Craig is.