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Firstsupergirl wrote:So everybody can start to think about what kind of sign we'll take with us and what we'll write down on it , if we really go to the Bond22 premier! :lol: :lol: :lol:
It must be a short but extraordinary message to catch his eye! :shock: :shock:
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Firstsupergirl wrote:Thanks for sharing , GG!

You are welcome! :D

So everybody can start to think about what kind of sign we'll take with us and what we'll write down on it , if we really go to the Bond22 premier! :lol: :lol: :lol:
It must be a short but extraordinary message to catch his eye! :shock: :shock:
Like OVER HERE, DANIEL?
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..

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Daniel Craig, Please Come Here!'

It worked for a fan of David Tennant at the National TV Awards. She designed a poster, and it had bright colours and stars on it. It said David Tennant Please Come Here! And she was a child! David Tennant immediately saw it and hugged her and she was on TV too! Lucky thing, and she got his autograph! I wanna Daniel Craig to do the same to me. I was soooo envious and thinking of what Daniel would do to me if I had a poster like that! I really want to go to the Bond Premeire next year!

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Germangirl wrote:
Firstsupergirl wrote:Thanks for sharing , GG!

You are welcome! :D

So everybody can start to think about what kind of sign we'll take with us and what we'll write down on it , if we really go to the Bond22 premier! :lol: :lol: :lol:
It must be a short but extraordinary message to catch his eye! :shock: :shock:
Like OVER HERE, DANIEL?
THanks, GG, for posting all these pearls !!!! it was really exciting to read the experience of a Bond fan ! :twisted:
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JAMES BOND FINDS HIS INNER VOICE
Jun 18 2007

1983 was an eventful year. Richard Noble broke the land speed record, Cabbage Patch dolls were the best selling toy, Hitler’s diaries were exposed as a hoax, oh, and James Bond made his first record. Well, Daniel Craig did - he wouldn’t become 007 for another twenty odd years.

Daniel and his pals had formed a school band called ‘Inner Voices’ and were about to enter a national competition run by the Trustees Savings Bank. The School had agreed to let them go into a professional studio to record their chosen song, ‘House of the Rising Sun’.

(Pictured Left to Right) Adam Brierley (Keys) Paul Donnelly (Drums) Andy Fennah (Rythmn Guitar) Danny Craig (Vocals) Paul King (Lead Guitar).

But when Alan Fennah, brother of rhythm guitarist Andy, turned up to produce the session he was in for a shock – the band didn’t have the money to pay for it. Andy Fennah said: One of our school teachers accompanied us and was supposed to be paying. I think she had assumed that, as the song was four minutes long, we would only need about ten minutes of studio time! The teacher was horrified when she found out that it would take hours - and wanted to call the whole thing off. ”

Not wanting to disappoint his kid brother, Alan stumped up the cash and the song was recorded with Daniel Craig taking the lead vocal. Alan said: “Danny came across as very quiet and unassuming lad but as soon as the tape started rolling he suddenly came alive. ‘House of the Rising Sun’ is a difficult song to sing as the verses are in different octaves. Given his young age I thought he made a very good job of it. I’m so pleased that he has gone on to make great films, including ‘The Trench’, which is one of my all time favourites”.

At the end of the session each member of the band took home a cassette and Alan was presented with the master tape which he duly filed away. And that was that. Unfortunately, the group didn’t win the competition and on leaving school went their separate ways (although they do still keep in touch). As for the master tape, it went missing and was never seen again. That is, until a few days ago.
Alan and older brother Rob, now writers and owners of Pulse Records and Productions Ltd, had borrowed an old TEAC reel to reel tape recorder to review some of their early demo recordings. Three hours into the task Alan pressed the ‘play’ button and blasting from the speakers was Daniel Craig and ‘House of the Rising Sun’. All those years ago Alan had put the tape in the wrong box!

Rob Fennah said: "When Daniel got the part of James Bond the media kept asking us about this tape and I don’t think they believed us when we said we’d lost it. Now that it’s re-surfaced we intend to burn only five CD copies, one for each member of the band. Alan, Andy and I hope Danny will not be too shaken, or stirred, when he receives his copy in the post. As for the master tape, we have already had big money offers from the tabloids but this is of no interest to us- we don't work that way. Instead, we have decided to give it to Daniel-for old times sake.
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I know this story, but have never seen this pic before, thanks Betty!!!!
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redluna wrote:I know this story, but have never seen this pic before, thanks Betty!!!!
Same here! I wish that picture were a bit larger :shock:
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redluna wrote:I know this story, but have never seen this pic before, thanks Betty!!!!
Thanks, Betty, I knew the story, too ! never seen the pic ! Grazie ! :D
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I didn't know the story and I hadn't seen the picture, so thank you Betty.
There's a lot I haven't seen or read I'm ashamed to admit. I've got a lot of catching up to do. :wink:

I would really love to hear him singing that. I bet it's brilliant!

Wonderful little tale, thanks again Betty. :D
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Craig goes from Bond to battle beasts
Jay Stone, The Leader-Post
Published: Saturday, November 24, 2007

CANNES -- James Bond walks boldly into the ballroom of a luxurious Riviera hotel. He seems cheerful and relaxed -- no tuxedo, just a perfectly tailored suit -- and he shows no sign of nervousness as he sits down at a table with half a dozen strangers, any of whom could be out to trip him up.

"It's been a great year," smiles Daniel Craig, the 39-year-old actor who carries the mantle of Bond even here, at the Cannes film festival press reception for his new movie, the children's fantasy The Golden Compass.

"We made a great movie last year and lots of people went to see it and they seemed to like it ... Honestly, I knew we had a good film. I knew we had a film. I couldn't predict that it was going to do that well at the box office. Nobody could. I think everybody was surprised."
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Craig is between Bonds: Casino Royale was a smash hit in 2006, the upcoming Bond 22 is due out next year and Craig has found time between the six-month shooting schedule and the three-month promotion tours for another would-be franchise that presents dangers even 007 might want to avoid.

The Golden Compass is based on the first book in the series His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. The novels take place in a parallel universe where a young girl named Lyra Belacqua (newcomer Dakota Blue Richards) investigates the kidnapping of her friends, who have been taken to the Arctic by strange creatures called Gobblers. There, an organization called the Magisterium conducts operations to remove their souls.

The Magisterium has been described by Golden Compass director Chris Weitz as "a version of the Catholic Church gone wildly astray from its roots."

It is part of the controversy in His Dark Materials, which has been accused of being anti-Catholic, or at least anti-religious. The Golden Compass has softened this line -- those who have seen early screenings say the Catholic references have been removed -- but church groups are still upset and some are calling for parents to keep their children away.

Craig, though, addresses the issue with an easy self-possession that would be the envy of a secret service agent.

"It's the debate that the books raise that I find interesting," he says. "People say it's anti-religious, but I don't agree. Quite the opposite really. It contains ideas of love and charity and if it raises a debate about organized religion, that can't be a bad thing." Later, Craig says, "The central theme of the book is the journey of a young girl ... it's a film against oppression, and there's nothing wrong with that picture."

Craig plays Lord Asriel, a Bond-like adventurer who has no sympathy for the Magisterium. "He's a very subversive human being, a very intelligent lovely human being, but he's got a big subversive streak in him and I think it's very appealing," the actor says.

It's a role that the writer-director Weitz says is perfect for Craig because he's one of the few actors who has both the charisma and the acting ability to pull it off. Weitz, best known as the man who brought American Pie and About A Boy to the screen, added that he cast Craig before the first Bond movie. "It makes us look very smart now."

The Golden Compass is filled with special effects -- the computer-generated polar bears are the signature image of the movie -- and while Craig says his character doesn't have to conduct conversations with too many imaginary beings, it doesn't bother him to work like that.

"It's an acting job. I've been doing it for a long time: imagining people that aren't there. It's never been particularly difficult for me. I don't know whether that's a good thing to say or not."

Craig began his career at England's National Youth Theatre, where he alternated appearing in Shakespearean dramas with waiting tables. His film career includes some brilliant portraits in small films -- Ted Hughes to Gwyneth Paltrow's Sylvia Plath in Sylvia, the young lover of an older woman in The Mother, the real-life killer Perry Smith in Infamous -- but before Bond he is best remembered as the smooth gangster in Layer Cake, a movie that proved he had the right mixture of urbanity and toughness.
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There are three books in The Golden Compass series, which raises the possibility that Craig could find himself involved in another franchise. He greets the speculation with good cheer.

"I love going to work," he says. "As long as I'm not doing too much so that it becomes a bore, what's great about these films is that it will be spaced out. There's going to be time. We'll figure it out." Indeed, just after Cannes, he was heading off to make Flashback of A Fool, a small movie about an older actor looking back on his life. Says Craig, "I'm not very good at not doing things."

He was also busy doing some re-shoots for The Golden Compass. The movie is not as physically demanding as his Bond role -- "I walk into a room and walk out of it," is how he puts it -- but he had to go to Switzerland to be filmed sliding down a glacier for one of the movie's chase sequences.

Asked if he was able to use his parkour training from the famous Casino Royale sequence in which he chases a villain through a construction site, Craig is quick to demur.

"I don't have any parkour training. The guy that I'm chasing knew how to do parkour. I kept falling on my face."

Still, the man who got his start playing Shakespeare is heading off to new James Bond stories -- Craig has now signed to do four more -- and perhaps more Golden Compass adventures. It seems like he is in real danger of becoming an action star.

"Do you think?," asks Craig, with only the slightest edge in his voice. "Well, there's worse things."
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While looking for an article called 'Bond Bombshell' recently, I accidently stumbled upon a completely different interview that goes by the same title. :shock:
I think the one I was looking for was from The Independent, this one is from the Sunday Times. I'm not quite sure if I've read it before, anyway I thought it couldn't hurt if I post the link here.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... 655549.ece

I really liked this bit:

At lunch, I am keen to talk about what made him an actor, and what he learnt in those formative years. But he doesn’t share my interest. On the contrary, he puts on a display of calculated indifference. For instance, he describes acting as, like music, a mere “get-out clause” for people from Liverpool.

After his parents divorced, his mother largely conducted her social life around the Liverpool Everyman, a theatre that enjoyed national acclaim during the 1970s. Was young Craig impressed by the plays he saw there? He says he doesn’t remember much about them. “Most of them involved walking around in the nude.” What did interest him, he says, was the cinema that put on double bills.

“I just went and watched movies, from Quest for Fire to Blade Runner. I thought, ‘F***, that is what I want to do.’ ” What about the Guildhall? “I’m not sure what I got out of it, apart from the discipline of getting up in the morning.” When I press for more, he says he learnt “not to shout when you’re backstage”.



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Anglophile wrote:While looking for an article called 'Bond Bombshell' recently, I accidently stumbled upon a completely different interview that goes by the same title. :shock:
I think the one I was looking for was from The Independent, this one is from the Sunday Times. I'm not quite sure if I've read it before, anyway I thought it couldn't hurt if I post the link here.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... 655549.ece

I really liked this bit:

At lunch, I am keen to talk about what made him an actor, and what he learnt in those formative years. But he doesn’t share my interest. On the contrary, he puts on a display of calculated indifference. For instance, he describes acting as, like music, a mere “get-out clause” for people from Liverpool.

After his parents divorced, his mother largely conducted her social life around the Liverpool Everyman, a theatre that enjoyed national acclaim during the 1970s. Was young Craig impressed by the plays he saw there? He says he doesn’t remember much about them. “Most of them involved walking around in the nude.” What did interest him, he says, was the cinema that put on double bills.

“I just went and watched movies, from Quest for Fire to Blade Runner. I thought, ‘F***, that is what I want to do.’ ” What about the Guildhall? “I’m not sure what I got out of it, apart from the discipline of getting up in the morning.” When I press for more, he says he learnt “not to shout when you’re backstage”.


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Yes, he has an appreciation for "the human form". I like to say That's why Liverpool Rules.
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Interview: Why actor Mark Strong is an accidental anti-hero

Mark Strong tells Alice Jones that he never planned on becoming an actor. He just happened upon a picture of Titania...

Friday, 19 October 2007

In 1996 came his big break in Our Friends in the North alongside fellow unknowns Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee and Daniel Craig, who is now godfather to Strong's two-year-old son. Strong had no idea it would be so successful.

"And Dan didn't either. I remember walking down the street with him one day saying: 'do you think this is going to be any good?'", he says. "It was only afterwards I realised that it's a serious political look at the state of the nation for those 30 years. I think people related to it because it was a really intelligent piece of television."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 97214.html

Just started wondering how good mates they are, googled Mark Strong and, hey presto: a Daniel tidbit :wink: A sweet one at that!

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Awwww how sweet! If the kid is only two years old, they must have stayed really close friends all this time after OFITN.
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Daniel Craig worries about losing his eye colour

Daniel Craig is worried his eyes are turning grey - reports Monsters & Critics.

The new James Bond actor, who made his debut as the secret agent in the critically acclaimed 'Casino Royale', is famed for his piercing blue eyes.

However, Craig is paranoid he will lose his most attractive feature and his rugged good looks won't have the same effect on women.

He said: "Sometimes I think they are getting bluer, maybe. But maybe in 10 years' time they're going to go buoomph! And just go out, and that'll be it. Old grey eyes is back."

Craig was recently named the world's sexiest man.

He topped a poll conducted by condom maker Durex, who quizzed 4,000 women on their favourite famous men.

Craig's piercing blue eyes and rippling physique as he emerges from the sea in tiny blue swimming trunks in 'Casino Royale' proved to be a major vote winner.

He beat off stiff competition from a host of Hollywood heartthrobs, including George Clooney and Johnny Depp, to win the title.

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