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.

Last night, I sent this story to CB, and she immediately sent me the video for Blu Cantrell’s “Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops)” which is so very appropriate. As you might remember, Daniel Craig gave his girlfriend/fiancée Satsuki Mitchell the shaft (and not the good “shaft”) once he began hooking up with Rachel Weisz. Thus far, Satsuki hasn’t said anything directly to the press, but her parents are talking, and it’s said that Satsuki is “devastated” and “absolutely bewildered” in the wake of Rachel and Daniel’s insanely hot affair and subsequent joint homewrecking, jumpoff relationship and now marriage. But! In Touch Weekly has a great story about what Satsuki did when she first found out about the affair. Hit ‘Em Up, Blu:

In Touch – Satsuki Mitchell lived with Daniel Craig for seven years, and then he started filming Dream House with his old friend Rachel Weisz.

According to a source, “One morning, Daniel left for the set, as usual. Only that night, he didn’t come home. Satsuki was frantically calling, texting and emailing him, but he was probably with Rachel and not answering.”

Satsuki “hit back, the only way she knew how.” She racked up about $1 million in charges on Daniel Craig’s credit cards, which she had permission to use.

[From Jezebel’s Midweek Madness]

A million dollars in charges. Where to even start? If I wanted a parting gift from my wealthy lover because he was dumping me for another woman… I would want property. And then jewelry. And cash. I’m not sure if I would be out there spending money on clothes and such, but hopefully Satsuki purchased some items that will grow in value.

After CB sent me “Hit ‘Em Up” I sent her some old-school Bell Biv DeVoe. I miss BBD so much! This is also very appropriate for the Satsuki-Daniel situation.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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.

People are still trying to figure out what exactly happened with Daniel Craig, Satsuki Mitchell, Rachel Weisz and Darren Aronofsky. The problem is that none of the main figures in the story are speaking or giving any indication of what really happened. First, there was the report from TMZ about Rachel and Darren splitting, and that the rumor was that Rachel and Daniel were now getting hot and heavy. Then the British tabloid the Daily Mail ran a report in which unnamed sources “confirmed” that Rachel and Daniel had indeed had an affair/relationship, although the details of which were not forthcoming. A day after that, E! News’ gossip guy Marc Malkin had another report claiming the opposite. A source said: “Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have been friends since their theater years when they were younger. They are the best of friends, but not lovers.” The main crux of that report was that Daniel was/is still with Satsuki Mitchell. Well… now The Telegraph has a report about Daniel and Satsuki being over:

Appropriately for the man who plays James Bond, Daniel Craig has kept his love life shrouded in mystery. Now, his agents have added to the intrigue by declining to deny rumours that the 42-year-old actor has broken off his engagement to Satsuki Mitchell, 34, an American film producer, whom he has been courting for more than five years.

“Things seem to have cooled between them,” says a friend of the couple. Last week, sources close to the actor denied that he had played any part in the demise of Rachel Weisz’s relationship with Darren Aronofsky, the American director.

The British actress, 40, announced that she and Aronofsky, 41, by whom she has a four-year-old son, Henry, had been “separated for some months”.

It was alleged that Weisz had fallen “head over heels” for Craig on the set of the thriller Dream House, in which they play a married couple. In 1994, he divorced Fiona Loudon, the Scottish actress, by whom he has a daughter, Ella, after a two-year marriage.

[From The Telegraph]

Now, what do I believe from this cycle of whispers? Here’s the theory that I’m working on right now: I think Daniel and Satsuki are over, and that they’ve probably been over for months. I think their relationship probably ended around the same time as Rachel and Darren’s. I think Rachel and Daniel probably did have an affair or some kind of romantic or sexual relationship, but the relationship isn’t ongoing. They’re either taking a break, a breather while they ended their relationships and cleaned up their messes, and will come back together a few months from now OR it was just a simple affair and it’s over and everyone is moving on. That’s my theory.

Daniel Craig and Satsuki Mitchell at the Oscars in February. Images thanks to WENN.com .

There are some fresh rumors heating up about Daniel Craig and his long-time, Japanese-American girlfriend Satsuki Mitchell. Satsuki stepped out in London recently wearing what looked to be a gorgeous engagement ring, so now some British sources are totally claiming that Daniel and Satsuki are engaged. We don’t have the photos, but Sky News does, and the ring looks for real. Daniel and Satsuki have been together since Daniel filmed The Jacket in late 2004. She was a producer on that film, but she doesn’t have many credits on her resume now, so I suspect her current occupation is simply “banging Daniel Craig”. It seems like Daniel is totally enamored with her, so an engagement isn’t out of the realm of possibility.

Listen up, folks. Cos we may have a case of shaken, stirred and hitched.

Daniel Craig’s girlfriend, Satsuki Mitchell, has been snapped out wearing what looks to be a wedding ring.

The brunette beauty sported the telling piece of bling below her diamond solitaire engagement ring on an outing in London’s Primose Hill recently.

007 star Daniel is notoriously private about his love life, but it’s understood he proposed to Satsuki, who he’s dated since 2005, a few months back.

“They are so loved-up,” a source told The Sun at the time.

“He asked her to marry him and she’s been showing off a very beautiful Cartier ring. It has a large diamond solitaire with a platinum setting.”

Rumour has it the couple were planning to wed sometime after he wrapped up promotional duties on his latest Bond flick, Quantum Of Solace.

So have they now tied the knot on the quiet? Has dishy Daniel gone and got himself a wife?

Well, the ring sighting certainly makes for salacious goss, but like a spy flick with numerous twists, nothing is confirmed yet.

Sky Showbiz are currently awaiting comment from Daniel’s rep and will let you know as soon as we hear anything.

[From Sky News]

Of course, these are not the first rumors about Daniel and Satsuki – allegedly, he was proposing to her as early as 2007. So this could just be a sad rehash of old stuff. But, as I said, the ring looks for real. Even if they’re not engaged, I think Daniel’s heart belongs to this bitch. Too harsh? She took my Daniel! Sob.

These pictures of Daniel leaving The Ivy in London (6/23) were too funny to pass up. Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.