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[calypso]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... bited.html

- they not know about rachel Weisz then

[Dunda]

James Bond star Daniel Craig blasts rise of social networking


Aug 21 2011 by Alison Jones, Sunday Mercury

PLAYING the world’s most famous spy, Daniel Craig relies heavily on gadgets to get James Bond out life and death situations.

But he says it is the use of gadgets, specifically mobile phones and anything allowing access to social networks, that helped anarchy spread so quickly as the recent riots swept the nation.

“I think the Government has allowed economics to drive social networking because the internet is driven by advertising,” he says. “But I don’t think there has been enough debate about it.

“They have just allowed it to happen and now they are saying ‘Oh my God. People are communicating with each other and telling each other to go out and burn cars’. Really slow, guys!




“I think the effect it has needs to be properly analysed. I’m not saying it caused what happened – but it was certainly a way of communicating.”

Craig, 43, who lives in London with his new wife, actress Rachel Weisz, said troublemakers had passed ‘close by’.

“I think there was major criminality going on and a lot of p****ed-off people,” he tells the Sunday Mercury. “It was a combination of the two.

“I am not an expert on these things but looting is a result of rioting.

“Maybe in some cases here looting was the reason that people went out to do it, but usually it is the result. It is the reason people were rioting that really needs to be addressed.”

There are themes of lawlessness, robbery and vigilantism in his latest film, but Cowboys and Aliens deals in fantasy rather than social realism.

Craig plays an amnesiac gunslinger who is forced to team up with Harrison Ford’s iron-fisted rancher to tackle alien abductors who are terrorising a small desert town.

He has proven himself handy with a gun as James Bond, but Craig says he was surprised to be asked to saddle up. I’ve wanted to play a cowboy since I was a kid,” he says. “I was honoured that they should even consider me for the lead cowboy in a big movie like this. I was intrigued because the title suggested it was a comedy.

“I wanted to do a straight western. But it is a straight western. That’s what everyone was intent on doing.”

He admits that even with his leading man 007 status he was starstruck at the idea of working with Harrison Ford.

“I was a fan. I still am,” he explains. “Harrison is the real deal. He rides horses, he builds houses, he flies helicopters. You can meet your heroes and sometimes be desperately disappointed. I wasn’t.

“You do have to get over yourself very quickly, though, because you have to work together every day.”

Craig squeezed in the making of the new movie while on a break from Bond after the making of the 23rd film in the superspy franchise was suspended because MGM ran into money troubles.

Although he was frustrated by the delays, it gave him time to tackle a number of other projects, including the English language remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Tintin.

“There was nothing I could do,” he says of Bond. “MGM have the rights and they were broke. Unless I could have found half a billion dollars from somewhere I couldn’t have helped them out.

“Now MGM is back on its financial feet again, director Sam Mendes is set to call action this autumn and a release date has been pencilled in for November next year.”

Although the franchise celebrates its 50th birthday in 2012, Craig says there is no sign it is running out of steam: “Not based on the new script we have. I am as excited about reading this script as I was about reading Casino Royale.”

source: http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midla ... -29272632/

[JEC57]

What I've learnt: Daniel Craig

The actor on the South African accent, being a snob and having his picture taken in the loo.


http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/20 ... niel-craig

Daniel Craig, 43, made his stage debut aged six in Oliver! Academically poor, he left school at 16 and joined the National Youth Theatre in London and went on from there. He waited tables for a while as a struggling actor and became one of the rootless types he is so good at playing. Now famous for playing James Bond, he will pick up his Walther PPK for his third Bond film. But first there is the sci-fi/Western hybrid Cowboys & Aliens, co-starring Harrison Ford. He is married to Rachel Weisz, his second wife, and has a daughter, Ella, 18, by his first marriage to actress Fiona Loudon.

In this business, I go to new places I've never been and I've had some of the best experiences, especially with the Bond films. I got to South Africa, which I love, for Flashbacks of a Fool shot in Cape Town and played a South African in the Spielberg film Munich. It's a bloody difficult accent to master and I don't think I did in Munich or in The Power of One, in which I played Sergeant Botha. I've been to South Africa several times and I miss it when I leave.

I have an aversion to Shakespeare and costume dramas. I don't want to be dressing up and pansying around. I love being twisted and challenged. I love the obsessiveness in movies. I've tried to be as picky as I possibly could, because I am a snob, and I don't like doing sh*t. I'd rather go hungry than play a rubbish role.

I've always got immense satisfaction out of working in ensemble pieces.

One can always change the way one looks. You can beef up. But I can't change the way that I am.

I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else. And I wanted to be a cinema actor. Especially a cowboy, as I am in Cowboys & Aliens, which is hugely significant.

Even though I hate guns and am a pacifist, they have proved much of my success. One must never say no to anything.

I've discovered that one can't straddle and be taken seriously. I am very political but I am an actor, not a politician, so I must shut up about politics and concentrate on acting.

Never be negative. I was sitting in a hotel room in Switzerland worrying about the first Bond film when the producer, Barbara Broccoli, rang with the news that the box office for Casino Royale was looking very good. The numbers kept going up and it became the most profitable Bond film to date (then).

You have to smile about certain things, like someone trying to take pictures of me when I'm having a piss. That has happened. It is not welcome and never will be, but if you don't smile you end up smashing somebody up. Once when we were filming we discovered two guys buried up to their necks in sand with cameras. They had been there all night.

I mustn't get complacent because if I start relaxing about all of this, then I'm going to turn into a dick.

When you start out, you need to stick with it and make something happen. That would be my advice to all students.

Acting is a great way to get rid of your insecurities. Dressing up and showing off ... But you find plenty of new insecurities, unfortunately!

[cheryl1700]

lots of older statements in that article, that he said some time ago as well the new stuff

[JEC57]

lots of older statements in that article, that he said some time ago as well the new stuff

Yeah....it seemed a bit weird to me. There were no quotation marks around what he is saying. Nothing to indicate where his words begin and end. Very strange way of presenting it. And like you said, somethings are so old.....like pics being taken of him in the loo.

It's almost like the author picked quotes from other articles and lumped them together, especially as there is no indication of date and where the interview was held.

[tampa]

Question for JEC. Why does the Daily Mail seem so hostile to DC? Is there some bad blood history there of law suits or his ignoring their requests for interviews or something. At some point in every DM article I've read about DC, they seem to always get nasty and snide towards him. Maybe that is their style for all celebs??? I don't know the English papers.

[calypso]

Question for JEC. Why does the Daily Mail seem so hostile to DC? Is there some bad blood history there of law suits or his ignoring their requests for interviews or something. At some point in every DM article I've read about DC, they seem to always get nasty and snide towards him. Maybe that is their style for all celebs??? I don't know the English papers.

they printed pciture of his last house near Regents park in paper which is now sold, they later removed it and i sure daniel took out super injunction agaisnt them for that , he won damages from them as he say it was damaging for security for his partner (sats) and family.

sorry to butt in

i would say there is no love lost between daniel and any of UK papers

[tampa]

Question for JEC. Why does the Daily Mail seem so hostile to DC? Is there some bad blood history there of law suits or his ignoring their requests for interviews or something. At some point in every DM article I've read about DC, they seem to always get nasty and snide towards him. Maybe that is their style for all celebs??? I don't know the English papers.

they printed pciture of his last house near Regents park in paper which is now sold, they later removed it and i sure daniel took out super injunction agaisnt them for that , he won damages from them as he say it was damaging for security for his partner (sats) and family.

sorry to butt in

i would say there is no love lost between daniel and any of UK papers

Thanks. It seemed like there was some kind of bad blood there. They just seem to want to get even with him. Their DC articles always seem to have a nasty twist and are sometimes very fast and lose with the facts.

[caramel]

Ridley Scott Directing New "Blade Runner" Film, So Here's Who He Should Hire

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While those options sound pretty cool to me, I suspect Alcon and Scott will instead opt to start from scratch with new casting, and pick up shortly after Blade Runner left off. Which means a recasting is in order. Which means it's time for me to make some suggestions!

The casting of Deckard is of great importance. Wrong casting here could sink the whole project. So my top suggestions would be Russell Crowe, Daniel Craig, Will Smith, Clive Owen, and Christian Bale. I can easily imagine any of them with the close-cropped hair, the trench coat, running down busy New York sidewalks at night while neon lights reflect off the rain-slick streets.

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Eva Green has long been on my list as a great option to reprise the role of Rachael in any eventual direct sequel, such a terrific actress with a quality of the classic "femme fatale" stars from bygone eras, a sensibility and look that so perfectly suits the character and tone.

Full article --> source

[khenton]

Crikey. That sounds awful. But im not a fan of remakes when the original is a classic K

[caramel]

Crikey. That sounds awful. But im not a fan of remakes when the original is a classic K

Yes, it is always tricky, isn't it?

[JEC57]

Question for JEC. Why does the Daily Mail seem so hostile to DC? Is there some bad blood history there of law suits or his ignoring their requests for interviews or something. At some point in every DM article I've read about DC, they seem to always get nasty and snide towards him. Maybe that is their style for all celebs??? I don't know the English papers.

Daniel successfully sued them for printing a photo and the detailed location of his Regent's Park home as breach of privacy, based on the fact that it was not only his home but the home of his (minor) child.

Apparently there was an apology in the paper, but I missed that. What I did find was the outcome of the case on the press complaints commission web site. There were monetary damages but I can't remember how much. I seem to recall it ran into 6 figures (sterling).

There has never been any concrete proof of the super-injunction, but the kid-glove way the press treated Daniel after that, the fact that photos of Ella were never printed in the UK (or if they were they were removed within hours), and the fact no news source ever printed the direct location of his house the way they do other stars in London, pointed towards him obtaining an injunction to protect Ella.

The point about super-injunctions is that not only does it ban press publication of named incidents, places and people, it also bans the press from saying that such an injunction actually exists. So people in the press may know it exists, but cannot say publically.

The Daily Mail took the lost law suit personally, and since that time they have played a kind of cat-and-mouse game with Daniel. They will not put anything into the hard copy which may incur his wrath, but they have often published questionable things on their web site which they then removed within hours.....so just enough to start a rumour and then cut and run on it. The "in print" aspect sunk them in the law suit. They removed the details of Regent's Park very quickly from their web site, but they couldn't recall all the papers they sold.

The tabloid press in general in the UK have paced rather warily around Daniel since that point. Unlike the broadsheets which seem to treat him as a rather prickly national treasure to be interviewed with care, but nonetheless appreciated, the tabloids sway between fascination with him and irritation with him because he keeps them all at arm's-length.

A lot of the tabloids use a slightly sarcastic tone when writing about him. But he is now too powerful to bash properly and he's willing to haul them into court if they take things too far. And if the super-injunction did (or still does) exist they have to be wary of that too. But they still like to take a dig when they can get away with it.

I may have missed something, but I cannot recall seeing "an exclusive" with Daniel in any UK tabloid. He doesn't give any of them interviews, and unlike the broadsheets, they have to make do with repeating bits of the interviews from elsewhere "with permission" or generic repeated information released through his publicists. You'll find when Bond 23 fires up that the sister paper The Mail on Sunday (which has a rather nice clutch of magazines inside) will run good bits on Bond which include him, but it stops short of full in-depth stuff with him, unlike the broadsheets which get first pickings. But it's pretty obvious that those MoS Bond pieces are set up with Eon and not with Daniel or his publicity people.

Daniel has no good reason to regard the tabloids in the UK with anything other than contempt after they way they ripped him to pieces when CR was announced. The broadsheets came at it from another angle, kinda like......"what is acclaimed thespian Daniel Craig doing with fluff-and-nonsense like Bond?". They were snobby but in the other direction, and they didn't play on the blond Bond nor repeat the slurs other than to report what other papers were saying with a rather superior attitude to the mud-slinging. I think the reason why Daniel will now give interviews to UK press, to magazines, to broadsheets but never to the gutter tabloids is based back in those times. And even with those publications lucky enough to get an interview with him, it's only when he has to, when he has a film to promote, that he will sit down with them.

My personal opinion is that the pain he felt back then at the hands of the tabloids, at their betrayal of him, is still raw. I think it served to remind him of why he holds the press at arms-length in general, a reminder of the hounding he got after OFITN when he became a house-hold name here and everyone wanted a bit of him. He had to haul up the drawer-bridge back then to protect his privacy and his family, and he's been doing it ever since.

[Dunda]

http://www.empireonline.com/features/vi ... l-craig/p1

[Dunda]

Celebrity Fashion: Daniel Craig

It seems as soon as an actor is named to play James Bond he is automatically thrown on best dressed lists everywhere, usually with good reason. To identify actors with the character, designers who create a wardrobe for Bond movies will ensure the actor is not in short supply of suits for red carpet events, interviews or trips to Starbucks. Daniel Craig is certainly no exception, decked out in Tom Ford he looks his 007 best almost anytime he shows up in front of a camera.

Daniel Craig has an “everyman” appeal to him and looks like someone who would be happy to toss back a pint or two with the boys at the pub; a casual look with fitted tee shirts and jeans and it suits him well. Buttoned shirts will almost always have the top two or three buttons undone and while on some men this is a calling card for douche-baggery, he seems to get away with it. Casual Craig can border a little on the messy side yet is certainly comfortable (even though the look can be tussled somewhat) there is a feel of blue-collar Londoner about him. Cardigans appear to be a favourite of his and go very with a layered style suitable for the London climate. It seems to me that the producers have gone to great lengths to make sure Craig looks comfortable as James Bond, reflecting this in the casual and active wear of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. I get the feeling that when not wearing a suit or tux, they have Craig dressed in exactly what he’d wear off the set.

Enter Tom Ford and Brioni for Craig’s formal look. This guy looks so comfortable in a suit, he could go to the gym in one. Starting with Brioni’s European cut suits in Casino Royale, to the British style of Tom Ford in Quantum of Solace; these suits are perfection in tailoring. Black, charcoal and navy are common colors of choice for his event suits, often combined with white (and occasionally blue) shirts that provide an anchor to the style, yet don’t appear overly conservative. Monochromatic ties whisper elegance. Ties and pocket squares go together and are folded sharply (no puffy look here) but he will usually drop the square if he loses the tie. When the suit goes lighter, it’s usually a light grey still containing elements of black, like the tie or pocket square. Even if you don’t have $5,000 to spend on a tailored Tom Ford, you can still mimic the Daniel Craig look by copying cuts and colors. Keep in mind; this is not a look anyone can pull off. If you are on the bigger side, it is more difficult to go with the more fitted style of British tailoring. Craig is athletic without an ounce of fat and his suits are like the male version of Lululemon on an athletic woman; fitted and perfect.

Daniel Craig has two very different styles depending on whether he is casual or formal, the former being much more accessible to the average guy. Even if you can’t pull off the style of suit he wears, take note of color combinations to achieve an easy elegance that is timeless. James Bond is looking better than ever.


source: http://gentlemansfashion.com/2011/08/ce ... iel-craig/

[tampa]

Thank you JEC for taking the time to explain all the background of Daniel and the press in London. That explains everything. The paps and tabloids must make his life tough in London. I wonder if he likes living in NY, not just for Rachel but that the press by comparison with London, mostly leave him alone there. And his daughter seems to be going to school there too. He's probably England's biggest movie star, but in NY he can live with less hassle. He does get some gossip press coverage in the NY Post, which is a Murdoch paper, so given all you note above, I guess it figures. tampa