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I don't quite agree. People in general have "some responsibility to behave" and he does. It's not like he's actually doing any seriously bad behavior, is he? Not actually pretending like he's Bond when not at his work, for instance (violent behavior, lots of drinking, rather reckless and dangerous driving...)
The moral outrage and tut-tutting here over some swearing amazes me.
Now you make me feel guilty :P
you have a point, he is a hard worker and gives 100% of him to be the best he can be in his movies.
I just can't stand bad manners that's my fault, I should be more forgiving.
Those comments about money and cutting wrists though are not good.
I cannot understand why someone already rich would do work only for the money.
This is my feeling too.......there's a certain finality in this isn't there. The writing's on the wall so to speak....
I think so too,
besides, he and Sam are pretty close pals and i am sure they will have talked about this a lot.
If Craigs "Bond Tank is really empty", and they put everything they had into Spectre, then there will be very little draw to pull him back in for 25, Money won't be enough.
Also as i said over and over here, from his recent comments there is almost no indication that he has still fun doing this or even loves it.
As we all know, Daniel Craig was aware of what he was signing up for - not just the amazing wealth, but the fame, the internet reaction, the press attention. He knew about this when he was offered the part!
He has to weigh up the fortune, the privileges that come from playing a role like James Bond. If he looks it at like that he should count himself a very lucky man. If all he sees is negativity and he expresses that negativity in interviews, he should go. Perhaps at a deeper psychological level Daniel Craig is insecure or has issues about acting and how others regard him. I dunno. I sense George Lazenby had similar issues.
Roger Moore embraced his profession and the role of Bond. Craig appears to be the polar opposite.
In other words, everyone famous is a role model? Ok, in a way I suppose they are. But people are complaining over and over and over that he doesn't behave because he... eeek! ...swears. A major sin and crime, apparently. My point being that he is an actor, his job isn't to be some perfect role model or raise other people's children to be non-swearing model citizens or something.
I'm not so sure that he is managed at all in that regard.
EON should have never allowed such an interview, respectively such answers.
IMO
YES, that is exactly what i am talking about.
look at how Robert Downey Jr. handles his franchise fame. you will almost never hear anything negative about Iron man from him, and he sure doesn't love everything about it.
Or Christian Bale who was busting his a** for the Batman, but he had enough decency to mostly shut up about it.
he is gambling with his reputation. so far he always got away with it because his movies are so great.
But he as an actor is making a total joke of himself with those comments
Bond is an "international treasure" and its not too much to expect those so intimately involved in Bond to treat the project/character with a minimum of respect.
(can you imagine the same words from L Nimoy when considering another ST movie?), respect the job and people respect you, it's a mutual , two way thing and goes beyond movies. Anyone who works within a profession knows there are certain ways to behave in order to gain respect.
What planet are we living on? Not every actor is a role model. Actors are just people working for a living. You don't see Z-list celebrities being touted as role models despite working in Hollywood. DC is hardly UNICEF-ing it like Roger Moore or out adopting third world babies like Jolie. He's just a man working for a living.
But let's not kid ourselves. Anyone looking up to any old actor as a role model clearly needs their priorities checked.
Craig does count himself very lucky and has said so, including recently. Yes, this role has made him wealthy and has given him further opportunities career-wise, and he has also enjoyed the role and making the movies and the people he has worked with and the producers. He has said so, also including recently. Where the do you get the "all he sees is negativity" crap? It's not all he sees, but all you see, apparently.
I really don't get the constant attacking at the Bond actor on a Bond forum, a couple of weeks before the new Bond movie's release. How do people only see some comment (ignoring context and all) to get upset about and manage to miss the positive stuff entirely? I'd understand that better on a non-Bond forum where one would assume people only notice some headline grabbing bit. Here one would think people have seen more than that and have a better idea of the big picture. But nope...
No offense but an actor who plays a womanizing, alcoholic assassin? I mean, I would've gone with, oh I don't know, a historical figure, a teacher, a local policeman or firefighter, a family member, a co-worker but an actor who's getting paid to play pretend?
Ok. Sure. *shrugs*
He's just not a good self-editor. I don't thin he likes the idea of always performing, even when not on the set. Sir Rog is just a born performer - he can't help it. And he is pretty exceptional in being so charming, witty and good natured in interviews. The mans just a legend and comparing DC to Sir Rog is a bit unfair really. No one can be that amazing.
DC likes to swear and gives off a bit of an edgy attitude in interviews. A bit like Connery I suppose? He his who he is. Frankly I don't care that much. All that matters to me is how they perform in the movie. Dalton comes across as a bit of a pretentious twerp in his Bond era interviews, but he was a really good Bond. Pieece is much more likeable as a person in interviews, but he is the only Bond actor I really can't stand in a Bond movie.
Christian Bale is an amazing example of this. A great Batman. Terrible voice but a great Batman and a terrific actor in all regards. In real life, well, see that incident on the Terminator set. Some people have that natural quality and just because DC doesn't (or doesn't like to show it at all times) doesn't make him any less deserving of what he's accomplished or of being James Bond for that matter and to think so is, imo, utterly ridiculous.
BB and MGW hired DC because of what he brings to the role, not because of how he handles the press.
Not a role model, LOL! WHAT! The UN made him Ambassador for global mine action advocate, I do not think there is a bigger role model. =))
The comedy on this site sometime, people having brain farts.
his swearing is in humour context not in a abusive sense. A swear word with no meaning posses no risk, in world with radicalism, mass murder, rape and torture. Does Dan saying the F word affect kids?? really? Kids these days you can wrap them in candy floss hide them from everything.. The minute you send them to school, they mix with other kids, they learn the words and because they are not allowed to they do it even more to be rebellious. What kids are reading Time Out or Esquire anyway. Never heard Dan swear in a TV interview or radio. He chooses his audience.
That is great for him, and i respect that.
But don't interview him about it otherwise he will tell you how much he hates that work and would rather slit his wrists.
look, he was saying that stuff from the start. thinks like "i hate it", "i wanted to get out from the start", and now his most recent high point.
none of his comments on their own would bother me, what bothers me is the consistency, there is a pattern here, and i am getting tired of it. and yes i will stop reading his interviews.
he has not learnt anything about dealing with the press
I wish journalists would just ask him about the film he has just made and stop asking him about the next one and if he will be back. It must get exhausting and extremely monotonous.
Several newspapers here have stories about Craig with headlines like:
- Daniel Craig quits after Spectre.
- Danke Craig has enough, Spectre is his last Bond.
- Craig rather commits suicide than playing Bond again.
- There is nothing left in Bond for Craig.
and don't get fooled, those are stories in big newspapers, some tabloid some serious respected newspapers that reach millions of readers.
People do not know the context of that words, they just read this and take it for a fact that Craig has enough and wants to quit. And obviously some newspapers also take this for a fact that Craig is quitting.
Furthermore in all of those stories, Craig's money and wrist cutting comments are prominent and not in a good way.
That the result of his remarks. It doesn't matter how he meant it, it's out there and can't be reversed.
Everybody knows it once Spectre opens. It's not my opinion it will hurt the box office but I don't see how Craig now can do another Bond movie without losing face completely.
Furthermore the media will have a field day in now "casting" a new Bond actor.
If you think it was bad before, wait what will happen in the next few months concerning that matter.
Good point, you should ask DC that too.
Spectre is my most anticipated Movie of the year. Most anticipated movie since Skyfall.
Everything so far looks perfect, and now Daniel comes along and feeds the Press with all this crap about how much he hates it. If he is not into it, how do you expect me to get into his movies?
i haven't even talked here about his WORST comment for me so far, and since i am sure that most people have not read it, i will not spoil it here, since it actually might be just another of Craigs brainfarts. But it put a big blow to my anticipation for Spectre... but i can't stop scratching my head over the stuff this guy is openly saying in interviews.
a promotional campaign is NO plattform for personal opinions like that, keep that for an evening in the pub with your friends