Yesterday, I said I would be more than happy if Rooney Mara’s stylist gave up the “corpse bride/secretary” aesthetic and simply let Rooney own a “glamour goth” style. I believe that some shade of goth is basically the only thing that works on Rooney currently, given that she’s still pretty much in character as Lisbeth Salander, and given her extremely pale skin and whatever that Spock monstrosity is on her head.

So, is Rooney listening to me? These are photos from the Berlin premiere of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Rooney wore this chic Michael Kors mullet dress that she comes close to pulling off. I don’t like the dress, but it sort of works on her. I’d still like to see her do something different with her hair and makeup, of course. But at least she’s not wearing a beige pile of cat sick.

I also wonder about Daniel Craig – wearing jeans for the premiere? Really, Mr. Bond? Daniel gets hooked up with some of the finest Saville Row suits out there, and he wears jeans to the premiere? He must already be over it. And why didn’t Rachel Weisz come out for this premiere? Maybe she was just looking for a free trip to Spain, and she didn’t feel like going to Berlin.

PS… Rooney has some very severe angles, doesn’t she? I’ve seen photos where she looks angelic and lovely, and then there are too many photos where she just looks like the Grinch. It’s rough.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Last night, Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz walked their first red carpet together – as a married couple or otherwise. I just talked about this yesterday – I was surprised that Daniel and Rachel hadn’t done any red carpets together for any of the premieres of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and magically, hours later, Danny & Rach followed through. I don’t want to say it’s because of my musings, but it totally is. Anyway, Daniel and Rachel did their big red carpet debut in Madrid, for the GWTDT’s Spanish premiere.

Rachel is wearing Alexander McQueen. I’m not completely in love with the dress, but it’s nice enough and Rachel looks pretty. Shortly after she and Daniel got married, she was in NYC, promoting a film, and she looked AMAZING. Like, she looked like she was coming off of an insane sex bender. Her skin was glowing, her body looked fantastic, and she just looked so happy. She looks happy here… but maybe a little tired? Maybe Daniel just wants to bone her, like, constantly. Maybe that’s why he’s so smiley and happy! He’s all, “Check out my wife. I’ve already boned her three times today!” That being said, I no longer think Rachel is already pregnant. Look at that tiny waist! Not yet. But she might be soon.

Last summer, I wrote about a story in which an eyewitness described Daniel and Rachel as “hotter than Brangelina.” Which is still a question in my mind – now that Daniel and Rachel have done their first red carpet together, who is a hotter red-carpet coupling? Craig-Weisz or Jolie-Pitt? Honestly, I’d like to watch both couples.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

You know what would have really made all of the red carpets for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo more exciting? If Daniel Craig had walked them all hand-in-hand with his new wife, Rachel Weisz. Before you yell and say that Daniel is not Brad Pitt and he doesn’t need to “sell” his relationship alongside the “sale” of his film, whatever. Daniel used to walk all of his red carpets with Satsuki Mitchell. Of course, Satsuki allegedly went all Blu Cantrell when Daniel dumped her for Rachel, so maybe Daniel is letting his marriage simmer for a while before he and Rachel bring the burning heat to multiple red carpets.

Anyway, these are photos from Paris. Daniel and Rachel arrived together, happily smiling and holding hands upon their arrival, knowing full well that they were being photographed. So why didn’t Rachel come to the Paris premiere of GWTDT? Dunno. I will say this – Daniel looks less gnomish in Paris. I find him attractive normally, but I’ve come to the realization that he rarely photographs that well in still photos. Oh, and remember those excerpts from Daniel’s GQ UK interview where he was bitching about the Kardashians? Well, the full GQ interview was released, and he has more bitching and moaning to do. Actually, this GQ piece is very interesting – if you read the whole thing, Daniel does sound grumpy and surly, of course, but there’s another layer too – he’s a neurotic bastard. He’s intensely self-aware and you get a sense of a man who is overly concerned with how he’s perceived. You can read the whole GQ piece here, and here are some more highlights:

The best advice he ever got: “I got a piece of advice a long time ago. Declan Donnellan [legendary British theatre director, co-founder of Cheek By Jowl] gave me and a roomful of other acting students this piece of advice. He said, ‘You can’t get bitter. You can’t get bitter about what might have been.’ Well I know it’s easy for me to say. But hand on heart, going into my third year of drama school, and the s*** was hitting the fan and people were trying to get agents and competing really nastily with each other, well not nastily, but desperately, I was [he shrugs his shoulders] not bothered. And every time I’ve failed to replicate that,” he continues, “then s*** has started to go wrong. I never want to know who went up for the part. I never want to know who my agent’s other clients are. I never want to know what they’re doing, how they’re doing. I do not give a s***. As soon as you start doing that, you start questioning your own existence, questioning why you don’t have this and that, and it destroys you. The grass is always greener. There’s always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.”

He knows he’s awful on talk shows: “It’s a thankless task being a talk-show host,” he reasons, almost sympathetically. “Especially if you have to do a show every day. I look at these guys over here – Letterman, Leno. Whatever you think of them – and they’re not shows I tune into – but you look at them and you think, you earn your money. It’s a lot of money, but you earn it. Sometimes they get guests like me. [Adopts upbeat voice] ‘So, how are you?’ [Switches to surly teenager] ‘All right.’ Actually I did it recently for Cowboys & Aliens, and I kind of relaxed about it a bit more. Say less, laugh more. Laugh at every joke. I was a bit more chilled about it. I don’t care.”

He doesn’t want to try to revamp his grumpy persona: “But the only way to get round that would be to go out and do a huge PR thing. No, no, look at me. I’m really funny. And that would be terrible. Whatever happens has to happen nat­urally and I’m not going to go out there and compensate for something because there’s an opinion about me. There’s no point. It’s just not the way I’m constructed. I think it would show me up in a worse light. ‘Oh look, he’s trying to make us like him now. What a c***!’”

He got new tattoos when he married Rachel: He sports a pair of tattoos, now, on his inner biceps that may or may not have some connection with his new wife. On his right arm are words, on the left a symbol. “They are,” he points out, somewhat superfluously, “mine. They’re two very personal tattoos.” They look new. “Yes, they are. They’re just part of a stage I’m in,” he laughs. “You should see the rest of my body. Then you’d be intrigued. Oh boy. It’s been a very complicated couple of years.” He’s joking, but he won’t elaborate.

He’s not going to share his marriage: “No. Honestly, no. Absolutely, honestly no. That of all things. We got away with it. We did it privately. And I’ve got a lot of people to thank for that. But that was the point. We did it for private reasons. Because we didn’t want it f***ed up, because that would be sharing a secret. And the whole point is that it was a secret. A secret is a secret in my mind. Ultimately, if I start making comments of any sort…” he hesitates. “Look. I’m in love. I’m very happy. And that is as far as I’m prepared to go. Life is long, life goes wrong and I don’t want to say something now that might be thrown back later. Look at the s*** that’s been written already. The racist s***. It’s out there and you know what? F*** ‘em. Not the nice people. The nice people don’t write on the internet. But if that’s the audience that I have to pander to, if that’s what I have to do to make people feel happier about me, then no, f*** ‘em. Because my happiness, I’m sorry, is more important to me. Ultimately, people are saying, ‘Give it six months.’ Well guess what? I’m not responding. Life is long and I am hopefully in this for the long run.”

[From GQ UK]

I don’t understand the “racist” remark, unless he’s referring to some insults that might have been slung at Satsuki? Because she’s Japanese or mixed-Japanese, right? Because what “racist” comment could be made about Daniel or Rachel? Anyway… Daniel Craig, a neurotic legend in his own mind. I just wish… I don’t know, I wish he wouldn’t take everything so f–king seriously. Not everything is, like, a war crime. Sometimes people just like to gossip. Sometimes people just like to imagine two hot celebrities doing it. Sometimes people just appreciate when someone just owns their status as a movie star without having to listen to that movie star’s grumpy, surly, neurotic soliloquies.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

I saw The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo over the holidays (review here), and I walked away liking Daniel Craig even more. For all of the talk about the character of Lisbeth Salander and the wildly different portraits given by Rooney Mara and Noomi Rapace, I was impressed with how Daniel gave life to Mikael Blomkvist. True, he wasn’t really my idea of Blomkvist (too capable, too James Bond, not “average” enough), but he brought a depth and seriousness to the role, and I enjoyed seeing Daniel own the part. Daniel is still promoting the hell out of this, his final bid of the year to have a major hit film. The problem with Daniel’s promotional tour is that… well, he’s a surly curmudgeon. He’s a fickle, misanthropic bitch. (We are kindred spirits, I feel.) Previously, Daniel covered GQ UK and his criticism of the Kardashians (“f-cking idiots”) got a lot of play. Now, in a new interview, Daniel is taking on politics in general, and specifically British politics, New Labor and Tony Blair. Oh, and he talks smack about Rotten Tomatoes too. WTF? He’s getting into Megan Fox territory.

Daniel on politicians cozying up to artists: “Tony Blair started it much more than anybody’s ever done.” Referring to a 1936 German novel about an actor who curries favour with the Nazis to promote his career, and the 1981 movie based on it, he said: “It becomes Mephisto. You immediately are aligning yourself with a political party. Politicians are sh*theads, That’s how they become politicians, even the good ones. We’re actors, we’re artists, we’re very nice to each other. They’ll turn around and stab you in the f*cking back.”

On Cool Brittannia: Talking about Blair’s 1997 ‘Cool Brittannia’ movement that saw artists like Oasis singer Noel Gallagher have tea at Downing Street, he said, “The fact that a guy who’d been in a band, owned an electric guitar and has probably had a spliff was Prime Minister really meant something, after years of John Major and Margaret Thatcher. He just might be one of us. In hindsight, it turned out he was just a politician like all the rest.”

Daniel on George Clooney: “George has his finger on the political pulse, and he’s one of those guys who can get up and talk, and I don’t have that. If someone shoves a microphone in your face and says, ‘Explain yourself,’ you have to have a 100 percent understanding of why you’re doing it, and unless you’re 100 percent, don’t f*cking do it, leave it alone, let your work speak for itself.”

On his movie “Dream House”: “The movie didn’t turn out great. But I met my wife [co-star Rachel Weisz[. Fair trade, don’t you think?”

On the technological advancements of the Internet: “Something like Blade Runner, nobody knew what the f**k that was. There was no fanfare behind it... nothing. You went in to see it and were like, ‘What the f**k is this about?’ It was great. You can’t do that now. I mourn it, I really do. Now, everything is explained. Now there’s Rotten Tomatoes, with 120 reviews and your Tomatometer. Just aesthetically, I have a flicking problem with Rotten Tomatoes’ graphics. I mean, what the f**k? I really hate the expert opinion. If you were a f**king expert, you’d be doing it.’"

On the upcoming James Bond picture: “The script is better than Casino Royale.”

On getting in shape to shoot his Bond role: “I’m a bit of a gym bunny. But the truth is it’s f**king boring. I do light weights and lots of reps… There was a class I heard someone talk about — spinning yoga — which is an hour and a half of spinning, then an hour and a half of yoga, hot f**king yoga. What are you doing with your life where you can spend three hours on that?”

[From The Mail & Celebrity Gossip]

Is it wrong that I see his point (sort of) on the political comments? I think he’s saying that celebrities shouldn’t agree to do this photo ops with politicians, they shouldn’t align themselves with politicians or parties, because they’ll end up screwed over and disillusioned. There’s something to that. But to then turn around and compliment the King of Washington Ass-Kissing, George Clooney? Meh.

But mostly, the thing that irritates me the most is his tirade about Rotten Tomatoes. Seriously, he has a beef with a site that simply accumulates critical data and lays it out graphically? It’s a reference site, and people use it so that they won’t waste money seeing one of Daniel’s crappier films. Like, The Invasion. Or Dream House. Why can’t Daniel just take “the expert opinion” (critical opinion) as part of his job, one of the many reasons why he’s paid millions of dollars to wear nice clothes and pretend? I swear, Daniel might be too much of a curmudgeon even for me, and I usually love a surly bastard.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Men’s Fitness.

*Note: The first part of this review is (relatively) spoiler-free, but I’ll include some spoilers at the end.

First off, I should admit at the beginning that I’m a fan of the Millennium trilogy, the three books that Stieg Larsson wrote before his death in 2004. The books have their faults, of course, but the heart of the series was a completely unique, fascinating, well-drawn, and unconventional heroine. I’ve seen the Swedish films as well, the ones starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist, and they’re decent-to-good adaptations of Larsson’s work. My favorite book and my favorite Swedish film apaptation is still the first one, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I know the Swedish films are often criticized, but I think the Swedish GWTDT film is excellent, and it stands up.

So, given my love of the Swedish film, I was already primed to be extra-judgy of David Fincher’s Americanized adaptation. Plus, I’ve grown to dislike Rooney Mara a little bit, considering her interviews are revealing the little fact that she’s kind of dumb and conceited. But I have to say… there was a lot in Fincher’s film that I really liked.

The basic story is… well, there’s nothing basic. Calling it a “Whodunit” or a murder mystery isn’t the whole plot, but in its essence, yes, it is a murder mystery. Rooney Mara plays Lisbeth Salander, a young woman who is misanthropic, a legal ward of the state, who may or may not have mental issues and violent tendencies. She’s blunt, she’s honest, she’s supposed to look very young and androgynous, and she’s supposed to radiate intelligence. Daniel Craig plays Mikael Blomkvist, one of Sweden’s most respected and controversial journalists, who just got his ass handed to him in a libel case.

So, how did Daniel and Rooney do? Rooney was much better than I was expecting. She had the look of a haunted child, and she often looked frighteningly small and vulnerable. Her accent work was stellar – I never heard anything resembling an American accent. But! I still prefer Noomi Rapace’s Lisbeth, honestly. When Lisbeth is in danger, Noomi let you feel her terror and helplessness, and it was devastating. When Lisbeth is angry, Noomi projected the shaking, all-consuming rage. Rooney just… didn’t. Her performance wasn’t as powerful, but it was still pretty solid.

As for Daniel as Mikael… he was good. The Mikael character is at his best when he’s playing off the women in his life, and Daniel definitely came alive in his scenes with Robin Wright and Rooney. There were moments where Daniel seemed less like a journalist in over his head and more like a supremely competent British spy, though. Daniel just seems too… capable. But he was good, and at the end of the day, he’s lovely to look at, and he brought more emotional depth to Blomkvist than Nyqvist did.

My biggest problem with the film was David Fincher’s direction, and whoever edited it. The pacing was completely off in the first 15 minutes – I knew what was happening in the story, but even I was like, “WTF is happening here? Why are they introducing that character right now?” Then, in the final big action/suspense sequence, the whole thing was just a f–king mess. What could have been a series of gradually terrifying scenes were completely c–kblocked by bad pacing, bad editing and several sequences that should have been cut out of the script in the first week of preproduction. And then after that, the movie just hung around for another half an hour while they wrapped up the additional plotlines. Those plotlines had to be dealt with, of course, but Fincher really took his time and it got slightly boring.

So… I’m recommending the film, but I also think you guys should totally try the Swedish film, just because it really is a much, much better film overall. Seriously.

************SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS ****************

*Fincher messed with the story line in some little ways that I didn’t mind at all. Like, he introduced a cat to the little cottage where Blomkvist is staying, and g–damn if that cat didn’t steal all of Daniel’s scenes. At one point, Blomkvist is asleep in bed, and the cat is sleeping on his head. That was my favorite part. UPDATE: Er, was there a cat in the book? I completely forgot about it. Sorry!

*Some of you are probably wondering about the pivotal rape scene. In the Swedish film, the violence is traumatizing to the viewer, and you can really feel Lisbeth’s helplessness, her terror, her inability to fight back. The scene is so powerful, that act of violence haunts the rest of the film, and the rest of the series. The scene in this film was… well, it’s still violent and disturbing, but it was nowhere near as traumatic as the Swedish version.

*It takes FOREVER for Lisbeth and Mikael to finally get to work together, and even then, the story keeps separating them. It pissed me off – we waited for so long to see lots of scenes with Mikael and Lisbeth in the cottage, and you barely get any payoff.

*Lisbeth’s control over her own destiny was subtly taken away from book to screen. In the books, she makes several pivotal decisions that influence future plotlines. In the American film, those decisions are made by other characters – and things happen TO her, and she does less to affect her own course of action.

Promotional images courtesy of Columbia Pictures/IMDB and Empire Magazine.

Look at Scarfy Von Grumpy! What IS with that scarf? Daniel Craig’s style improved when he became James Bond, totally. All of a sudden, the man was wearing the hell out of every suit he came across. But very few men can pull off this kind of scarf, and I don’t think Daniel is one of them – maybe Jude Law? Jude could have worked this scarf. Totally. Anyway, these are photos of Daniel promoting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in NYC last week. This will likely be Daniel’s biggest film of the year, especially after Dream House and Cowboys & Aliens flopped earlier this year. Which brings me to a question – is Daniel Craig really a movie star without James Bond? Like, can he carry a movie? My answer is yes – but I was a fan of Craig before Bond, and his early films are littered with wonderful performances. But can Craig deliver a box office on a film in no way related to 007? That’s what GWTDT will show us. Until then, it sounds like Daniel is making plans to stay on as James Bond for many years to come:

Perhaps it was those swimming trunks in Casino Royale that did it? Or maybe it’s simply because Daniel Craig is the most convincing James Bond in nearly 50 years. Whatever the reason the 43-year-old actor could become the longest serving 007 of all time after being offered a multi-million pound deal.

In an interview with The People, Bond producer Michael G Wilson said he would love Craig to do five more films, taking his total to eight. That would put him ahead of current longest-running Bond Roger Moore by just one movie. It would also knock Sean Connery, who played the spy in six films, from second position.

Pierce Brosnan donned the tux for four films, Timothy Dalton for two and George Lazenby starred in just one – On her Majesty’s Secret Service from 1969. Craig is currently filming his third Bond film Skyfall, directed by Sam Mendes and due out next year.

Wilson told the paper: ‘Daniel’s been a terrific Bond, a superb actor and a ­terrific man. The fans love him and I don’t think there’s a better actor to play the part. I’d love Daniel to surpass Roger’s record and do eight pictures. A lot of people have said Daniel’s been their favourite Bond since Sean Connery and I can’t argue with them. He’s doing a great job.’

While Wilson did not confirm financial details, it is rumoured Craig will earn more than the £8million he is reportedly being paid for Skyfall.

Casino Royale was the most successful Bond film in the franchise’s history taking more than £300million at the box office. Fans can expect a hark back to the 1960s Bond style in Skyfall according to Wilson, whose stepfather Cubby Broccoli started the franchise in 1962.

[From The Mail]

OK, the producer isn’t saying that Daniel is definitely signing on for five more films, the guy is just saying that’s what he wants. Do you think Daniel would do it? I don’t know if he would – Bond has been a double-edged sword for Daniel. It’s definitely brought out the surly curmudgeon in him, and he doesn’t seem to enjoy his fame whatsoever. I suspect that when it comes down to it, Daniel will end up backing out of Bond after Skyfall, or maybe he’ll only make one more after that. Because God knows, if Daniel acts like he actually enjoys the 007 center stage, he might have to stop being so surly.

…. Besides all of that, don’t you want to see Idris Elba play Bond? Hm?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Thank you, thank you, thank all of you who agreed with me about Rooney Mara in yesterday’s post. She’s a smug one, and she thinks it’s fine to trash-talk her early jobs now that she’s a huge movie star. Well, I know one thing – she’s not going to get very far as a fashion girl. After Rooney’s goth-bridal Givenchy gown to the London premiere of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney is now giving us full-on goth at the New York City premiere. Rooney wore this Prabal Gurung Spring 2012 dress which… I dislike. I don’t hate it passionately, and I think it could be interesting on a different woman. But on Rooney, it just feels like a costume, and like she’s trying so hard to be “dark.” Plus, will you hate me if I say that I don’t think Rooney really has the figure to successfully pull off this dress? Not only does she remind me of Gwyneth Paltrow intellectually, but her boxy figure reminds me of Goop too. Goop would try to pull off this dress. Goop would fail as well. Rooney’s hair looks slightly better, though. No bangs. What’s with her expression in all of these photos, though?

As for the other “stars” on the red carpet – Daniel Craig was there, looking delicious. I’ve been sad that Rachel Weisz hasn’t come to any of these premieres – I was looking forward to seeing them walk a red carpet together. Instead, Daniel posed with his arm around Rooney a lot of the time, and then he got to see Robin Wright. I like Robin’s dress, although it’s a bit boring. I still don’t like that choppy haircut, though.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

These are some photos of Daniel Craig at last night’s premiere of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in London. Daniel looks nice – he’s all shaved and dapper because he’s back in his James Bond regimen. Those ears… I swear, his ears are getting bigger and more prominent. I kind of like that, though. Imagine your ankles resting against those ears. Nice, eh?

Anyway, Daniel has a really, really long interview in Time Out London this week. You can read the full thing here – it’s epic, and yes, Daniel is moody, curmudgeon-y bastard. That’s well established. But I also think a small slice of his “personality problem” is that he’s actually got a very dry, caustic wit, and some of the stuff he says is meant to be funny, or “taking the piss” as the Brits say. Here are some highlights:

Daniel Craig can’t smile on demand: The actor is explaining how he’s rubbish at grinning on demand and is always branded ‘mean and moody’ whenever he’s snapped unexpectedly by a photographer. So now he’s giving me his best forced smile. It’s not pretty. ‘I’m just not that person,’ he laughs. ‘So people have a perception that I’m grumpy all the time.’

Daniel on playing a journalist (Mikael Blomkvist): ‘Oh yeah, now I understand! [Laughs] I feel so much better about it! The truth is, I don’t have any problem with journalists – I count some of them as friends – also some of my heroes are journalists, I’m a big fan of Robert Fisk – great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what’s right. And I like the guy in this film, Mikael Blomkvist, but what I like about him is that he’s flawed, he’s a complex, weak, egotistical man on a moral crusade. And all those things combined are interesting, plus he has this brilliant relationship with this girl, Lisbeth Salander, this damaged, hyper-intelligent human being. On paper, they shouldn’t come together, but they do and they respond to each other. She’s the one with the balls in the relationship. He’s happy to watch while she beats someone up.’

On Rooney Mara: ‘There were shenanigans going on while she was being cast… David Fincher was adamant and I get that. Just look at the beginning of “The Social Network”, she’s phenomenal. She’s got something about her, but also she’s physically perfect. When she puts the hoodie on and the leather jacket, she looks like a 14-year-old boy, she looks sexless. Which is perfect. The other side of it is that when she doesn’t have that on, she’s really sexy. That combination is absolutely true to the book. Salander’s someone who would walk down the street and you wouldn’t notice. That’s how she wants it, that’s how she’s survived in her life. She’s switched herself off from humanity and she walks in the shadows.’

On not doing a Swedish accent: ‘Some people in the film have accents and some don’t. I don’t. I had a long conversation with David about it and said that a lot of Scandinavians speak English perfectly. I’m one of those guys. We’ve got Danish people, Swedish people, English people, American people. The only thing that matters, as far as I’m concerned, is that no one sounds American. We sound as European as possible. We’re all speaking one common language and that happens to be English. I didn’t want an accent to get in the way, and for me it would. Salander has no formal education and she has a street accent, it’s quite specific.

On the new Bond film, Skyfall: ‘I’m genuinely really excited because we’ve got a script. The deciding factor for doing “Casino Royale”, even though I was umming and aahhing, going [puts on moody voice] “I don’t know if I want to do it”, was that they showed me the script and I thought: F–k, I’ve got to do this. And I think this one is better. I really do. It’s a totally original story. I read it and it just works as a story. It sounds like a simplistic thing to say, but you read it and you go: “Oh yeah, I get that, yeah, and oh, yes, yes, okay,” and that’s unusual.’

Quantum of Solace didn’t have a script? ‘You swear that you’ll never get involved with s–t like that, and it happens. On “Quantum”, we were f–ked. We had the bare bones of a script and then there was a writers’ strike and there was nothing we could do. We couldn’t employ a writer to finish it. I say to myself, “Never again”, but who knows? There was me trying to rewrite scenes – and a writer I am not. Me and the director [Marc Forster] were the ones allowed to do it. The rules were that you couldn’t employ anyone as a writer, but the actor and director could work on scenes together. We were stuffed. We got away with it, but only just. It was never meant to be as much of a sequel as it was, but it ended up being a sequel, starting where the last one finished.’

Becoming a paparazzi target: ‘Yes, in some respects it’s unavoidable, you can’t deny it. In some respects, I still fight with it now… But I do get it, you can’t just come out and be angry. There’s no f–king point. You’ve got to live your life. I know I’m not that person. I’m never going to arrive at an airport after a 12-hour flight and go, “Oh, hi everyone, it’s so great to see you!” I can’t do it. You’ve got to live your life, you’ve got to enjoy it. And this is a great time, I’m playing James Bond. That’s what makes me secure about it, I’m having a lot of fun with it and getting a kick out of it, and people have a perception that I’m grumpy all the time.’

Vanity in acting: ‘Me and my very close friend call it “modelling”. I don’t find myself particularly good at it. But you find yourself having to model sometimes in movies. It’s kind of that. [He does a ‘Blue Steel’ impression, tipping his chin, giving it the stare.] Some people are really good at it. And then you watch it and you go, “Oh, that’s f–king modelling, what are you doing?” But it is part of movie-making. That’s what I like about David Fincher, too. He’s got an eye for that. He might say, “Tip your chin,” and you know he’s looking at an angle, he’s looking at the lighting. I love that. If you’re too aware of yourself I think it goes wrong, I really do. As long as my ears don’t stick out too much, I’m happy. The greatest asset to an actor is their ego, but it’s also their greatest enemy. The ego gives you the balls to get up there and do it, but it’s also the thing that scuppers you because you’ve got to act, you’ve got to communicate, you’ve got to think about what the other person’s thinking, not whether you look good.’

[From Time Out London]

“As long as my ears don’t stick out too much, I’m happy.” OH NOES. Don’t worry, Daniel. We see your ears and we think about where we’re going to rest our ankles. It’s all good.

But do you see what I mean about Daniel having a caustic sense of humor? In print, it can come off as dark and melancholic, but he’s saying some of this stuff with a wink and a nudge. Also: I would love to see Daniel go all “Blue Steel”.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

The Mail has the weirdest story about Daniel Craig. As I’ve said before, Daniel is a curmudgeon. He is one of the surliest men in Hollywood. I will totally believe that he throws tantrums and I’ll believe that he is capable of bitching someone out completely, whether or not they deserve it. But in this story, I kind of see his point. The Mail reports that while filming at the London Four Seasons, Daniel refused to get into the hotel pool because he deemed it “too dirty”. Am I a diva for completely understanding his point?

He’s the ultimate suave super spy, so naturally James Bond is used to the very best treatment. And it appears the actor who plays him shares 007′s high standards.

Daniel Craig reportedly refused to get into costume to film a swimming-pool scene in a London hotel because his surroundings were ‘too dirty’.

The actor was shooting his third Bond movie Skyfall at the Four Seasons hotel.

‘The gym is one of the best in London and usually very clean,’ the Daily Star quoted one gym worker as saying. ‘But it wasn’t up to scratch for Daniel Craig. He said it was ‘dirty and untidy’ and refused to get into costume until it was cleaned,’ the source added.

Daniel was spotted filming for the upcoming film in London earlier this week.

He has been joined by 28 Days Later star Naomie Harris for Skyfall, the 23rd film of the Bond franchise. Naomi plays the part of Eve – a field agent who joins Bond on his quest to track down whoever is threatening the MI6. The actress was thought to be taking on the role of Miss Moneypenny when the film was first announced, but speculation was laid to rest once her character’s name was revealed.

At a recent press release, Harris described Eve as ‘believing she is Bond’s equal, but she is really his junior.’

Another female character who Bond has issues with in the latest film is M, who will once again be played by Dame Judi Dench. The head of MI6 sees her past come back to haunt her in this movie which results in Bond’s loyalty with her being put to the test. The film also stars Javier Bardem as the main villain – and no doubt the ultimate threat to MI6- and Ralph Fiennes is set to play a ‘really interesting’ character, which not much has been revealed about.

Ever the perfectionist, Daniel is as quick to level criticism at himself as he is others.

‘I’m definitely not satisfied about my career. I don’t know how you can be; it’s the very nature of things,’ he told GQ magazine. ‘I’m always trying to figure it out and I’m kind of unsatisfied constantly. I always want to get it right and I don’t know what the answer to it is.’

Daniel confessed that he still finds it hard to believe that he was handed the role of the iconic secret agent, and that he is ‘not quite sure how’ he has been such a success as Bond.

Skyfall is set to be released some time between late October and early December next year.

[From The Mail]

You see, I think that if I was a huge movie star, I too would use my powers for good and cleanliness – instead of demanding certain kinds of food or some kind of “no eye contact clause” I would just demand that everything be clean, especially public areas. Pools especially. I’m not hyper-neurotic about public pools, but it’s not too much to demand a good cleaning, right? I got pinkeye once, and I swear it was from a public pool. I swear. Maybe Daniel got pinkeye too.

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Look, I’m not going to lie. I look for reasons to post photos of Daniel Craig. I know that’s not a popular decision, considering that many of you bitch about DC being unattractive. Probably the same people who think those Supernatural boys – who wear WAY too much makeup – should be featured on more Hot Guy Fridays. For me, though, Daniel Craig is lovely and amazing, although I freely admit that his personality is lacking. He’s a surly curmudgeon and a truly pissy bastard. In my sexual fantasies, he yells obscenities at me and then we make up and he starts whispering obscenities to me.

Anyway, last week we had some early excerpts of Daniel’s GQ UK interview, where he called out the Kardashians for being “f–king idiots.” The exact quote was: “Look at the Kardashians, they’re worth millions. I don’t think they were that badly off to begin with but now look at them. You see that and you think, ‘What, you mean all I have to do is behave like a f–king idiot on television and then you’ll pay me millions?’ I’m not judging it. Well, I am, obviously.” Some people thought Daniel deserved an award. Some thought he was full of it. Some thought he had probably made the Kardashian Klan super-happy because he even deigned to acknowledge their presence in the world.

As it turns out, though, Kris Jenner was super-pissed. In an interview with Heat (UK), Kris was asked about Daniel comments, and she responded:

“It [hasn’t] made him look like the world’s nicest guy. The right thing for a real man to do now would be to issue a public apology. The easy thing would be to criticize his career now, but our family won’t stoop to that level.”

[Via The Mail]

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I don’t understand any part of that. “The right thing for a REAL man” – bitch, are you saying Daniel Craig is not a real man?!? “Issue an apology” - for saying that you and your daughters act like “f–king idiots” on camera for money? Why does anyone need to apologize for telling the truth? “The easy thing would be to criticize his career now…” - by saying what? That Cowboys & Aliens didn’t do well? Daniel Craig is still an A-list actor, the reigning James Bond, and he’s in-demand for project after project. And what is Kris Jenner’s career again? Pimping out her daughters? But the cherry on top is “but our family won’t stoop to that level.” DELUSIONAL BITCH PLEASE.

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