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.

Rachel Weisz is in Toronto too, to promote yet another new movie. I feel like she has half a dozen films coming out! This one is called The Deep, Blue Sea, and I’ll discuss it in a moment. Let’s talk about fashion first. Rachel wore Jason Wu, one of her favorite designers, to the Toronto premiere. Thoughts on the Wu? I feel like Rachel has problems with color. Sure, she looks amazing in red, but when she veers into blues, greys and greens, the shades tends wash her out? Doesn’t her skin look kind of weird here? But if you just showed me the dress, I would like it. I do love her makeup and her hair, though. All in all, not the worst look at all.

Rachel walked the red carpet with her costar, Tom Hiddleston. No Daniel Craig! BOO. Maybe they’re waiting for the Dream House premiere to walk the red carpet together. God, that will be so, so hot. I can’t wait. As for Tom – he seems kind of geeky and odd. Do you girls get hot for him? I can’t see it. As for the film, The Deep, Blue Sea is about a woman in her 40s (Weisz) who leaves her husband to embark on a torrid affair. Gee, art imitating life much? Here’s part of The Hollywood Reporter’s review:

So entirely immersive is Terence Davies’ desire to recreate and analyze the ethos of post-World War II Britain that not only has he fulfilled his ambition to refashion Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, but he has created a theoretical sequel to Noel Coward and David Lean’s Brief Encounter in the bargain. As intensely personal and deeply felt as it is, however, Davies’ attempt to breathe new life into Rattigan’s 1952 play is a rather bloodless, suffocating thing, lent tragic passion more by its use of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto than by anything achieved by his star Rachel Weisz and her leading man. Limited release in sophisticated world markets awaits.

The author of such well-carpentered post-war studies of English repression as The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version and Separate Tables, Rattigan passed out of fashion in the 1960s but, after his death in 1977, his reputation began a rebirth with Karel Reisz’s London revival of The Deep Blue Sea, which centers upon a woman, pushing past 40, who leaves her wealthy older husband for her first passionate relationship. The cast of the original London production was headed by Peggy Ashcroft, while Margaret Sullavan starred in the Broadway version in 1953 and, two years later, Vivien Leigh appeared in the somewhat sluggish but still involving first film version directed by Anatole Litvak.

In fact, the beginnings of the 1955 screen adaptation and this new one are virtually identical, crane shots that start on the street and move up and into the window of the modest rented flat of Hester Collyer (Weisz), who has just stated in voice-over that, “This time I really do want to die.” In the original, Hester is found, alive, after her suicide attempt but, here, we watch as she turns on the gas and waits for her misery to end.

Davies then flashes back to a scene that essentially recreates the ending of Brief Encounter; Hester sits, entirely bored, at home with her older husband, high court judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale), as she silently wells while up thinking about her young lover, the dashing former RAF pilot Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston).

As Hester recovers from her desperate act, she is tended to by neighbors, including a would-be doctor with a mysterious past, while summoning memories of her sexual awakening, leaving her caring but unexciting husband, putting up with Freddie’s emotional wavering and eventual decision to move on, and Hester’s consideration of another suicide attempt.

[From The Hollywood Reporter]

Basically, it’s a quiet period film, a throwback to the “women’s films” of the 1950s, and it’s kind of depressing. The film is getting mixed reviews. Here’s a scene:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I think a great deal of Rachel Weisz’s beauty. I don’t think she’s been tweaked, plucked, sucked or tucked. I think she looks her age, but she looks GREAT for her age. I love her coloring, I love the way she carried herself, I love her hair. But I guess that I now have to admit that Rachel Weisz cannot pull off every look she attempts. This is Rachel’s cover shot for the new issue of AnOther Magazine, “The Dissidents Issue”. Rachel is put in the same league as Aung San Suu Kyi and Julian Assange… which… er…

Ordinarily, I would only cover this kind of off-beat magazine cover if I had the full photo shoot, or even some quotes from the interview. Not today – mostly because it’s a really boring gossip day, but also because this cover is unique enough to discuss. WHY would you put electric blue eye makeup on Rachel? Why would you make her look like a 1980s clown-face? Why would you make her hold a kangaroo goat? And why, with all of that going against her, does Rachel sort of pull it off? It’s amazing. She comes really close to making this work.

Meanwhile, Rachel and her new husband, Daniel Craig, are set to begin promoting their film, Dream House. I think the film looks really weird, but I’ll probably see it just to see whether Rachel and Daniel had any chemistry on-screen. How could they not? MTV recently sat down with Dream House producer Ehren Kruger, who spoke about Daniel and Rachel’s chemistry:

“Daniel’s a very intense person, and it comes across in his roles and on the screen. This is a character who, on the outside, seems like an everyman, a family man, but you come to find out he has a number of demons of his own. Daniel was really able to dig into those and pull off a very intense portrayal of a man trying to protect his family in nearly an impossible situation. It’s a very valiant performance from him. And the chemistry between him and Rachel, which is kind of the core of the film, is really great…. They are both very focused actors, so you just figured they were really committed to their performance of this married couple. There is method acting and I guess there is matrimonial method acting. But I wouldn’t say it was apparent during shooting. They were playing the roles as professional, and it went from there.”

[From MTV]

It really feels like Rachel and Daniel had a really intense affair during the production, while they were still with their partners, Satsuki and Darren. I think the affair got so hot, they didn’t want it to end, so they decided to take some time apart to end their respective relationships, and then they quickly returned to each other. *sigh*

Oh, and my mom thinks Rachel’s pregnant. I don’t know… I think Rachel’s definitely boning the hell out of Daniel every chance she can get. Hot.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Rachel Weisz covers the latest issue of Lucky Magazine – I think it may actually be the September issue, and it just got released later than most magazines? Perhaps. Anyway, Rachel, Lucky, etc. The photo shoot is cute but not particularly groundbreaking, but this is one of Rachel’s most extensive interviews since marrying Daniel Craig (although chronologically, this interview took place just days BEFORE her wedding). And she talks about babies. Please, God, let babies happen with this couple. I want to see Rachel knocked up and I want to see Daniel being forced to walk the red carpet with her, holding her hand because she’s overflowing with his seed. Pleasepleaseplease. Here are the highlights from the interview (the full piece is online here):

Rachel on shoes and developing a character: “Shoes can turn you into someone else in an instant. I did a film called The Brothers Bloom, and I wore really clunky boots—and I was this eccentric weirdo. And then in The Whistleblower”—an independent film released this August, where she plays a cop who exposes a European sex trafficking ring—”I wore police boots that made me walk tough.” And there’s her latest: Dream House, a thriller opening in September. “I am a wife redoing a home we just bought, and I wear a lot of light sneakers that are all cute and homey and make me feel kind of doo-doo-doo, I’m domestic and painting.”

Rachel claims she’s never recognized on the streets: “This is New York, where everyone is a star in their own movie; no one gives a f–k.”

More on shoes: “I’ve had this conversation with a girlfriend for 15 years that is kind of a joke, and kind of deathly serious, about finding the perfect pair of shoes,” Weisz continues. “I always want to feel like I can take off if I have to—the British expression is, ‘shoes that let you run for the bus’—but I love high heels too! Sometimes it’s fun wearing very high heels and feeling needy … needy is great, because you feel you need to rely on someone.”

The part of the article about Daniel Craig (it sounds revisionist to me): That someone, as it turns out, is a man whom Weisz will, just a few days after this interview, marry: Daniel Craig, the sixth (and, I believe history will judge, best) James Bond in the 49-year-old movie franchise. They had known each other casually for years but became close when filming Dream House, in which they play husband and wife. Both were recently single (Craig was previously married in the early ’90s and had just broken up with a long-term girlfriend; Weisz has a five-year-old son, Henry, with Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky), and by June they were married, in a tiny ceremony in upstate New York that included only their children and two close friends as witnesses. Whatever else they may share—and Weisz is extremely circumspect about the relationship—there is a mutual fondness for fashion: A few months ago the two were spotted shopping at Louis Vuitton in London’s Mayfair.

Rachel on Alexander McQueen: “His pieces are works of art, but he had such a bizarre relationship to his own body …he was always on diets and …well, my perception is that his clothes were almost like torture instruments.” In her day-to-day life Weisz dresses down in what she calls “good quality city street wear”: Today it’s a simple white T-shirt plus jeans and brown high-heeled canvas boots from American label Rag & Bone. “These may be the perfect boots, actually,” she says, waving her foot in my direction. “I can walk all day in them.”

Her childhood home in Hampstead Garden Suburb in North West London: Her suburb was, she says, “a very freaky place” with no shops or pubs (the woman who designed the area was a teetotaler, and it was in the original deed to the area that no alcohol could be sold there); the only place people could gather was the church. “I don’t know if the houses are haunted, but I think the suburbs are where bad things happen because it’s the place where people try to live out bourgeois values and …well, if you don’t let out what you really are, it’s gonna come out in weird ways. You know? I think weird sh-t happens in the suburbs.”

Her career dreams before becoming an actress: “Actually, I wanted to be a detective. And a paleontologist. I was really into fossils. Though perhaps I was just trying to impress adults that I knew that word.” Despite being an indifferent student until she was a teenager, Weisz went on to study English at Cambridge University, where she cofounded the theatrical troupe Cambridge Talking Tongues.

BABIES: Eventually, the conversation rolls back around to family, and I can’t help wondering: Does she plan to have any more children? She smiles. “Oh, I wouldn’t make one just for the sake of giving my son a sibling. But …you never know.” She smiles again, nervously, proclaims her fondness for Baby Gap and then-an interesting thought in passing, considering the azure peepers of her new husband: “There’s nothing like a blue-eyed boy in a stripy blue shirt.”

[From Lucky]

Is the part about babies evidence that Rachel is currently knocked up? Eh, I don’t know. She wore a tight little red dress one month ago, and there was no bump. But if Beyonce has taught me anything, it’s never a sure thing to dismiss the Bump Watch. At the very least, I’d say that Rachel actively WANTS to have another baby and she and her new husband are going at it all of the time trying to conceive. HOT. Jesus, just writing that gave me a little biscuit twinge. Mm… I want to see Daniel push Rachel against a wall and… do something. Anything.

Photos courtesy of Lucky and WENN.

I cannot for the life of me find who designed Rachel Weisz’s spectacular red dress. Okay, the dress is cute, but the “spectacular” part is how it looks on Rachel, and how great she looks in total. God, she’s so beautiful. She’s one of my top girls, you know. And if anything, she looks even better now that she’s married to Daniel Craig. Craig-dong will put a smile on a girl’s face, I think. Especially when you marry Craig-dong and start getting it on the regular. Sigh.

Anyway, Rachel was out and about last night promoting her new film, The Whistleblower, which I have never even heard of. She did a screening of the film in the red dress, plus some interviews and appearances, although she did change when she went on The Daily Show last night. The film is apparently about post-war Bosnia’s human trafficking problems, and Rachel plays a policewoman “blowing the whistle” on America’s culpability in human trafficking. Rachel said: “It’s a thriller. It’s one of my favorite kinds of genres, much in the vein of Erin Brockovich, because it’s based on a true story about a woman, an ordinary woman, who did an extraordinary thing and I love stories like that.” Vanessa Redgrave and Monica Bellucci are also in it!!! Rachel and Monica, in the same film? I’m dying. Here’s the trailer (ZOMG!! Benedict Cumberbatch! David Strathairn!)

Also: So much for the pregnancy rumors, eh? That’s a flat stomach.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

It’s a film that will probably become more infamous than critically acclaimed, just because it’s the film that managed to get Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz together. Dream House was filmed last year, back when Daniel was with Satsuki and Rachel was with Darren Aronofsky. The timeline of the shooting schedule (Spring 2010) and Rachel and Daniel’s separate breakup schedules (summer for him, fall for her) have already been dissected for clues about their not-so-alleged affair. So this film, Dream House, was already destined to become like Mr. and Mrs. Smith, or Vanilla Sky, or Cleopatra, films more famous for getting two stars together than for the actual film experience.

That being said, the trailer for Dream House looks both creepy as hell, and very, very dumb. “Dumb” as in “I can see the massive plot holes from here.” I sincerely hope Rachel and Daniel were boning throughout the production, because that would be the only excuse for two talented actors to work on this odd-looking film:

Things I like about it: I like Daniel’s hair in the beginning. I like Naomi Watts’ creepy supporting part. I like that Daniel is going to be shirtless in several scenes. That’s about it.

Meanwhile, Daniel is on the promotional trail for Cowboys & Aliens, which… I still don’t think looks very good. I know everyone’s like “OMG, it’s going to be a huge hit!” but it looks really dumb to me, what with Daniel’s magic bombing bracelet and Olivia Wilde’s bangs trauma acting as an old-timey whore. Daniel was on Leno last night, and he revealed that he had forgotten his wedding date already: “Erm… (it was) two or three weeks ago. I am supposed to remember aren’t I?” He also talked about his wedding with Access Hollywood earlier: “I did it secretly — I can’t tell you how I pulled it off. My private life is incredibly important to me, and certainly that aspect of it is more than incredibly important to me.”

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Since Rachel Weisz up and married her crazy-hot jumpoff Daniel Craig, she’s been keeping a low profile. There have only been a couple of candid shots of her – you can see some here, at Pop Sugar, where it looks like Rachel is flashing her wedding ring. It’s a grainy pic, and I don’t really see the “bling” being discussed – it just looks like a wedding band to me. Anyway, since we don’t have those pics, let’s look at these new images from Rachel’s new ad campaign for Bulgari that were just released. Well… I mean, I love her. I’ve loved her for a long time. I have a soft spot for brunette bitches, and Rachel is always one of my top choices for Hot Girl Friday. She’s like the brunette, biscuit-y version of Michael Fassbender: I know I should find her sketchy, but I just get turned on. Rachel is gorgeous, so I have to wonder: was it necessary to Photoshop her this much? She has laugh lines, and that’s okay. She doesn’t need to look like a plastic doll reclining on a lion.

The ad campaign is for Bulgari’s Jasmin Noir perfume. You know who else is a “face” of a Bulgari scent? Clive Owen. I’m just saying… whoever picks the models at Bulgari knows what they’re doing. The campaign was shot by Mert Alas & Marcus, and yes, she’s wearing Bulgari jewelry.

Ad photos courtesy of SassyBella.

The last we heard of Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, a random passerby had declared them “sexier than Brangelina” which you guys debated exhaustively last Friday. Previously, we had talked about their “whirlwind” romance (which seemed to have begun while both Rachel and Daniel were “with” other people, and we also heard about how much Daniel really, really wanted to marry Rachel, which I thought was incredibly hot.) Anyway, a few days ago, The Daily Mail had an interesting piece about Daniel and Rachel, and the people left in the wake of their hot, sexy romance. The Mail spoke to the father of Satsuki Mitchell, who was engaged to Daniel for several years, and the whole article is full of interesting background on Daniel and Rachel. Did you know that Rachel was a radical feminist at university? Did you know that for the most part, Rachel likes, according to friends, “a bit of rough” in her men? You can read the whole exhaustive thing here, and here are some highlights:

The whole [wedding] event, which apparently was followed by a quiet meal and an early night, was carried out amid the sort of secrecy of which 007 himself would no doubt have been proud. But it has not exactly gone down well with friends of 43-year-old Daniel Craig back home. They are miffed, it seems, that the first they learnt of the nuptials was when the actor’s Los Angeles-based PR Robin Baun put out a terse statement last weekend confirming that they had taken place.

One long-time actor friend of Chester-born Craig, who has worked regularly with him – and shared more than a few of the drunken nights to which the Bond star is occasionally partial – told the Mail this week: ‘Frankly, I think it’s a bit much he couldn’t let his old pals know. I really don’t understand why he feels the need for all this cloak-and-dagger silliness.’

Unofficially, those surrounding the new Mr and Mrs Bond were letting it be known this week that the pair had decided on a low-key event ‘out of respect for their previous partners’.

Which does seem rather strange, given that according to the camps of both Craig and Miss Weisz they only began their affair after splitting with their respective long-term exes. Why, then, the need for such secrecy? Perhaps it has something to do with the whirlwind nature of their race up the aisle – at the first hint of hasty nuptials, many would assume that the bride was already expecting. Could that be why Miss Weisz was so eager to become Mrs Craig? Whatever the case, few can deny that things have been moving at warp speed for the couple who have only been officially dating for six months.

Craig’s now ex-fiancée Satsuki Mitchell – a 32-year-old Hollywood producer – is said to be ‘absolutely bewildered’ at the pace at which he and Miss Weisz have formalised their fledgling relationship.

Her own six-year romance with him netted her nothing more permanent than the consolation prize of an admittedly impressive Cartier diamond engagement ring he presented her with in 2007. While some of her circle in LA were letting it be known this week that the Japanese-American Miss Mitchell had stoically moved on, her father Christopher confessed to the Mail this week that her emotions remain very much on the raw side. So much so, in fact, that she can’t bear to hear mention of Craig’s name.

‘His sudden marriage came out of nowhere,’ Mr Mitchell told us. ‘We heard about it like everyone else, by reading the newspapers. She doesn’t mention his name now and tells me off if I do. Satsuki has only just reached a happy place. She has since said, more than once, that the break-up was the best thing for her. She knew he was not the man she wanted him to be and there was something wrong in the relationship.’

Mr Mitchell said that Craig and his daughter had been house-hunting in New York when the relationship started to unravel early last year, although all must have appeared well when, a few months later in May 2010, the couple bought a £1million penthouse in Manhattan’s trendy TriBeCa. Satsuki showed obvious strain after the split and her father says she was so upset that her weight plummeted, even prompting him to ask if she was suffering from an eating disorder.

‘I have suggested to her on a number of occasions that she might have one,’ he said. ‘Yet whenever we’re together she eats like a horse.’

Her devastation is hardly surprising, perhaps, given that she is said to have considered London-born Rachel a friend, after the two women spent time together on the Canadian set of the upcoming horror film Dream House last year, in which Weisz stars with Craig.

Satsuki, who also shared Craig’s £4 million home close to London’s Regent’s Park, is said to have discounted rumours circulating on set that the leading man and lady had become close. Members of the crew were already whispering that 41-year-old Miss Weisz, the star of the blockbuster movie franchise The Mummy, had fallen ‘head-over-heels’ for her rugged-looking screen love interest.

However, Craig is said to have insisted to the willowy Satsuki that he was nothing more than good friends with Rachel, whom he has known for ten years.

While Rachel Weisz’s spokesman was insisting her relationship with Aronofsky, director of this year’s Oscar-winning Black Swan, had been over for several months, in an interview just weeks earlier he had given no indication that all was not well between the couple. The bespectacled filmmaker has since moved out of the five-storey townhouse the couple shared in New York’s fashionable East Village — and it’s reported he’s gone from their London home, too — while Weisz has remained with their little boy.

Despite the split, sources close to Weisz and Aronofsky insist they are determined to stay on friendly terms for the good of their son, of whom they have agreed to share custody.

This week Rachel, who has recently been talking nostalgically about returning from New York to live in the UK, has had workmen refitting her £3 million North London home amid reports the couple are about to move in. They are also said to be looking for a six-acre property on the south coast as a holiday retreat. Just the sort of out-of-the-way place that would be ideal for the reluctant Bond, his new wife and the family they may be about to start.

[From The Mail]

Did you get all that? Satsuki is pissed and hurt. And whatever was going on between Rachel and Daniel, they were lying to their partners about it while they were working together, and everything fell apart shortly after the movie ended. While I have sympathy for Satsuki, I also tend to think… meh, whatever. She can claim that the split was the “best” thing for her and everything, but at the end of the day, she still got to nail Daniel Craig for five years, and that’s got to be one of highlights of any woman’s life. The more I read about Rachel and Daniel, the more I feel like they were just two forces of nature coming together, exploding with each other. HOT. Oh, and I guess the British papers are just out-right claiming that Rachel is pregnant too. Eh, she probably is!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Yesterday, I talked about a story that was in Us Weekly, all about “the story behind” Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig’s surprise nuptials last week. Basically, sources claim that Daniel is passionately in love with Rachel, and that he wanted to marry her a months ago. The story got me hot – mostly because in my mind, Daniel Craig is a man who loves passionately and completely and tenderly and epically. The idea of Danny Craig and Rachel together, in their all-consuming love – well, it’s a good thing (for me, and my fantasies).

So I was reading this story in Page Six this morning – it’s all about what Rachel and Daniel are like together, when they’re on their own in upstate New York, where Rachel has a country home. The stories from onlookers are hot – but then somebody says, “They looked more in love and sexier than Brad and Angelina.” Oh no he didn’t. But then I started thinking… is the Craig-Weisz pairing as hot or hotter than Brangelina?

Rachel Weisz’s wedding to Daniel Craig may have taken the showbiz world by surprise — but not her Catskills neighbors, who say the couple have been looking “so in love” during public outings.

Witnesses tell us in the weeks leading up to the wedding, the smitten pair were acting like newlyweds, canoodling in a local supermarket and gym in upstate Stone Ridge. One source said that on June 10, “I saw them in the local grocery store, Emmanuel’s Market Place. They looked like the world’s hottest couple.

“They were casually dressed, then Daniel suddenly pulled Rachel to him in the middle of produce and gave her a passionate kiss, right next to the bananas. They looked more in love and sexier than Brad and Angelina.”

Another witness spotted the couple at local gym The Ridge the next day, saying, “They were working out together, and there would be a passing kiss and a wink. She was on the treadmill and looked in great shape while he was working the weights. He did an unbelievable amount of crunches. His abs are clearly an important part of his package. He was doing them on the workout ball, then he flipped over and did reverse crunches holding the medicine ball.”

Days later, the lovebirds were back in Manhattan, sharing a romantic dinner at The Lion.

They tied the knot June 22 with just four people at the ceremony — Henry, Weisz’ 5-year-old son with “Black Swan” director Darren Aronofsky, Craig’s daughter Ella, 18, and two friends as witnesses.

Weisz, 40, announced her split from Aronofsky last November after eight years. Craig, 43, then called off his engagement to Satsuki Mitchell. Weisz and Craig went public in December when they spent Christmas together at a cottage in England.

Another source tells us the two briefly dated around 20 years ago and remained friends, but fell in love after they worked together last year on “Dream House.” Weisz is in “The Whistleblower,” due on Aug. 5. She’ll then film “The Bourne Legacy” and “Oz: The Great and Powerful.” Craig will star in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and then play James Bond for the third time.

[From Page Six]

Oh, they dated 20 years ago? I didn’t know that. That’s… kind of hot too. In my mind, Daniel carried a torch for her all of these years, a first, all-consuming love and somehow they found their way back to each other. Hot.

So… I don’t mind the comparison to Brangelina. They might even be “hotter” than Brangelina right now, just because Brad and Angelina have been together now for what? Six years? And we mostly see them as parents now, or red carpet sack-wearers. Rachel and Daniel are fresh and new (and hot). In any case, I think the gossip world is a better place for the Daniel-Rachel coupling. We needed another coupling of two people with equal hotness and fame.

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