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Into The Lion's Den

By Dave Calhoun
The Sunday Herald
September 26, 2004

Our Friends In The North made Daniel Craig a familiar face in the UK. Now he's aiming for Hollywood. Two great roles and a meeting with Steven Spielberg won't hurt.

Daniel Craig is a good conversationalist. He talks fast and laughs a lot , ruminating lucidly and passionately about a host of subjects, from his respect for Hanif Kureishi to having his "civil liberties" infringed by paparazzi, who have been on his back since the tabloids linked him with Kate Moss back in June.

His gift for chatter should serve him well in Los Angeles, where he's come for "meetings" which is what you do when you're a British actor at a certain point in your career and things are looking up. Craig looks trim and has a face that emits cheek and curiosity at the same time. His smart masculinity is coated with an actor's charm as we sit outside a Sunset Strip restaurant. (We're outside because he wants to smoke: "I get nicotine cravings here more than anywhere simply because you can't.")

This autumn, Craig should attract international attention with leading roles in two British films: Enduring Love and Layer Cake. For many, though, he is still best known for his scene-stealing turn in TV series Our Friends In The North.

"Which is great," he says. "It was a superb piece of television. And I still get it from people: Daniel "Geordie Peacock" Craig. It's not a bad moniker."

There's something of the male model the pristine peacock about his performance in Layer Cake, the directorial debut of producer Matthew Vaughn . Many will groan at the thought of another British gangster film, especially one directed by the man behind Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. To Vaughn's credit, though, this latest incarnation of the genre sits firmly on the foundations of a JJ Connolly novel and displays surprising depth . It's visually stylish, and Craig's quiet but quick-witted cocaine dealer sports some ultra-sharp suits. Throw in stunning cinematography and, at least to the eye, Layer Cake makes for a thrilling film.

"I've never been attracted to doing gangster movies," he admits. "But I liked the fact there was some sort of moral dilemma in this film."

I suggest that his character in Layer Cake could be tagged a "thinking man's gangster", compared with some of our more caricatured screen villains. "Write that down and I'll be very happy with you!" he laughs. "I know Matthew's had a lot of critics, but he has a real can-do attitude towards making movies."

Craig's other triumph is Enduring Love - an adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel - which he shot last autumn, immediately after Layer Cake. Craig plays Joe, a university lecturer, whose relationship with Claire (Samantha Morton) hits the rocks when they both witness a tragedy and Joe unwittingly attracts a frenzied stalker (Rhys Ifans).

"Joe's going through a mid-life crisis that thing of 'What's it all about?'," Craig explains. "What's more interesting, though, is the question of whether love endures. My character is of the philosophy that, 'We're all a bunch of genes, so it's all just a f***ing waste of time.'

"Those questions do start hitting early, they really do," Craig sighs. "It's more to do with the question of getting on the merry-go-round of life or not. You could say it's a slightly middle-class thing."

There's little sign of an accent to betray Craig's upbringing in Chester and Liverpool. But he was only 17 when he moved to London to join the National Youth Theatre and then the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. On leaving drama school in 1992, he landed a role in the film The Power Of One, but it was Our Friends In The North that brought wider attention. He's worked consistently, mainly in small British films, but in the odd TV and theatre role too.

Last month, it was rumoured that Craig had landed a starring role in the next Steven Spielberg film: a dramatisation of the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics. So, is the role of a Palestinian terrorist definitely his?

"That's the plan. Yes, no. Yes, no. It's a definite probable," Craig laughs. "He definitely wants to make the movie, but whether it will be this year or next, I don't know."

So how did he feel to be invited into the Spielberg inner sanctum ?

"Shit scared! I was completely f***ing shit scared! I met Spielberg in Paris sorry, I met 'Steven' in Paris for 15 minutes, really. He offered me the part and I went, 'OK, great.' It's easy to be cynical about these things, but I can't. It'll be fantastic to make a film with Spielberg."

Craig has had two brushes with Holly wood before. Three years ago, he made Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ("If you really want to watch it, you can," he deadpans) and then Road To Perdition ("Same budget, totally different experience").

This summer, though, Craig's biggest role has been as cannon fodder in the ongoing tabloid story of Kate Moss's love life. It even generated the catchy headline: "KATE'S MAN DAN IS A RAT."

"I've been followed on a moped," he sighs . "I'm looking in my wing mirror and it's like I'm in a 1970s movie. What freaks me out is civil liberties. It's about the fact that I get a phone call on a Saturday morning from a tabloid journalist. On my mobile. Where the f*** did you get that number from?!"

Craig is smart but utterly devoid of spin. "I'm sitting here talking to you about it, and part of me is even saying, 'God, I mustn't say this'," he explains. "What the f*** am I living? I'm supposed to live my life and have no fear."

This autumn, Craig will hit our consciousness for better reasons: two mesmerizing performances that envelop the screen with his moody presence. This time next year, with Layer Cake and Enduring Love behind him and, hopefully, a Spielberg film in the can, the paparazzi will be snapping Craig's picture no matter who's hanging off his arm.