Daniel Craig: a secretive actor – Le Parisien

“007 Spectre” totaled 543 million dollars in revenue worldwide after two weeks of operation. Good news for Daniel Craig, James Bond interpreter. There he is on track to possibly do as well as the previous episode of the saga, “Skyfall” at the box office, which had exceeded the thousand million dollars in revenues in 2012. Portrait of English actor whose little is known personality.

AG | 17 Nov. 2015, 2:00 | Update: 17 Nov. 2015, 2:06

Ten years ago he took over from Pierce Brosnan to interpret James Bond in “Casino Royale”. A choice considered surprising by the producers of the saga, Barbara Broccoli and Michael J.

Clive Owen Wilson since left favorite. Indeed, at the time, English Daniel Craig, 37, blond and blue eyes of a 78 meter, little known to the general public, seemed far enough away from the famous spy of Her Britannic Majesty, imagined by the writer Ian Fleming. Even Sam Mendes, director of “Skyfall” and “Spectrum” recently told the BBC he thought it would be a “very bad idea. Bond had become the opposite of what Daniel, casual, affable and courteous. A sort of parody somehow and I thought that it does not stick with the passion and honesty of Daniel as an actor. “.

James Bond remarried


 Since “Casino Royale”, “Quantum of Solace” and “Skyfall,” Daniel Craig has largely convinced his critics, Roger Moore one of his illustrious predecessors in the skin of the spy says that “this is a fantastic Bond and even one of the best of 007 “. Craig has not yet agreed to lègère this role, which he greatly feared the consequences on a personal level: “I was aware of the loss of privacy it would entail and I remained as inconspicuous as possible. This is the most important to me. ” If one lends short connections with Kate Moss and actress Sienna Miller, he married his second wife in the greatest secrecy, actress Rachel Weisz, June 22, 2011, in New York. She was discreetly to him during the royal premiere of “007 Spectre” in London, on October 25. But not on the red carpet to escape the photographers and televisions around the world …

The lover of painter Francis Bacon

Nothing predestined Daniel

Craig to become the incarnation of Bond. Born March 2, 1968, in Chester, northwest England, a father working in the merchant navy and pub keeper, and a mother professor of art, he spent part of his childhood in Liverpool, where he moved with his mother and sister after his parents divorced. There he will start playing theater. He left school at 16 to join the National Youth Theatre in London. He manages to get to the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he graduated in 1991. A year later, he made his big screen debut in “The Angel of Power.” He married in 1992 with the Scottish actress Fiona Loudon, whom he had a daughter, Ella. It divorce quickly. Then he plays the lover of the painter Francis Bacon in “Love is the Devil” (1998) starred with Angelina Jolie in “Lara Croft Tomb Raider” (2001). Sam Mendes, already engages in “The Road to Perdition,” with Tom Hanks (2002). Chosen to play James Bond in the fall of 2005 his career really started with “Casino Royale” is working well at the box office, and gives it the necessary credibility among addicts saga. The future of Craig? He recently told Time Out magazine. “I had my dose. All I want is to move on “, although it is contractually obligated to fifth Bond …

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