The DANIEL CRAIG Appreciation thread - Discuss His Life, His Career, His Bond Films

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    I, Lucifer is finally being made. Looks like Daniel Craig is out of the picture, and Bradley Cooper is in.
  • AgentJamesBond007AgentJamesBond007 Vesper’s grave
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    doubleoego wrote:
    Are you guys seriously seeing this for the first time? It came out circa QoS. I'm sure you must have seen it back in '08.

    Seen it many times, it was never brought up on here though.
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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Have a blast.
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
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    Yep! Happy birthday Danny boy =D>
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Happy Birthday, Daniel!!
  • Happy birthday, Dan!
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    Damn. I want to see Craig in other films too! It's been a long time since we saw him in anything other than Bond.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    SharkBait wrote:
    Damn. I want to see Craig in other films too! It's been a long time since we saw him in anything other than Bond.
    Alas, the stage has called his name.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited March 2014 Posts: 13,355
    Renee Zellweger will star with Daniel Craig in The Whole Truth:

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/renee-zellweger-talks-join-daniel-686657
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
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    Samuel001 wrote:
    Renee Zellweger will star with Daniel Craig in The Whole Truth:

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/renee-zellweger-talks-join-daniel-686657

    What the heck happened to her face :O At first I thought they used someone else's photo, but it is her! She looks... ordinary now. What a shame. Still, she's a nice actress.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Renee looks worse and worse as the years go on. I'm looking forward to 'The Whole Truth,' I just wonder if it will be shot before or after B24.
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    April and there is a sighting of him in Boston today.

    Funny enough, I see her as better looking now then before, which is rare, because I hate it, if they mess with there faces.
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    Creasy47 wrote:
    Renee looks worse and worse as the years go on. I'm looking forward to 'The Whole Truth,' I just wonder if it will be shot before or after B24.

    Definitely before. Otherwise they would have to wait until the summer of 2015.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Seemed a bit obvious, but the article I read (didn't even check the date) questioned the filming time: pre or post Bond 24.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    edited March 2014 Posts: 13,978
    I don't think that's a bad picture of Renee, but bear in mind that she hasn't been in a film for 4 years, maybe that might have something to do with her looking different.

    Good news if she gets the role, maybe more will follow for her...
  • DCisaredDCisared Liverpool
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    Erggghhh cue the crabs appearing and claiming she will be cast as a bond girl! 8-}
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
    edited March 2014 Posts: 4,341
    I could not find whether this was posted before, yet I cannot imagine @Germanlady not being aware of <a href="http://www.hungertv.com/film/feature/daniel-craig/">these video interviews</a> that photographer Rankin did with DC in September 2013.
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    My goodness she has changed! If it wasn't stated who that lady was? I seriously would not have recognised her?!! :O
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    zebrafish wrote:
    I could not find whether this was posted before, yet I cannot imagine @Germanlady not being aware of <a href="URL HERE">these video interviews</a> that photographer Rankin did with DC in September 2013.


    Your link doesn't work, but I imagine, you mean the 3 interviews for Hunger Mag.
    But they are from fall 2012 ;) Really good ones, too. Among the best. Rankin as a photographer of DC is shit, though. IMO...
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    Yes, these are the videos. I fixed the link, thanks!
    And don't be too harsh with Rankin, the strong shadows actually bring out DC's "character face" very well, imo.
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    zebrafish wrote:
    Yes, these are the videos. I fixed the link, thanks!
    And don't be too harsh with Rankin, the strong shadows actually bring out DC's "character face" very well, imo.

    In a way, but with Rankin he ALWAYS looks like a brute, which he is not and certainly not always. But its a matter of taste, as usual. Greg Williams knows how "to do" DC best.

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Thank you for the article, @Germanlady!
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    Creasy47 wrote:
    Thank you for the article, @Germanlady!

    Welcome Creasy :)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    It's nice to have Craig squeezing one more film in before B24 starts filming.
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    Here is one more article from the past, which is "new", because there is
    Bond in Motion, an updated version of a previous exhibition held at Beaulieu, Hampshire, will open at the London Film Museum on March 21.

    Bond has a driving licence to thrill
    Daniel Craig’s aggression behind the wheel in the James Bond films is no illusion. The actor would easily beat Jeremy Clarkson in a race, according to the stunt driver best known for portraying The Stig on Top Gear.
    Ben Collins, who served for seven years as the BBC television show’s “tame racing driver” while also working on the past two Bond films, said that Craig would not only be faster than all the Top Gear presenters but had the skill to beat almost all the people Collins coached for the programme’s “star in a reasonably priced car” segment.
    Collins, who taught Craig how to drive an Aston Martin DBS in preparation for the 2008 film Quantum of Solace, said that the only other actor he had taught who had a similar instinct for speed was Tom Cruise.
    Asked whether Craig would outperform Clarkson and his co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May, Collins responded: “Oh, God, yeah. The presenters are very good at what they do, but they’re no speed merchants.
    “They did do a 24-hour race and they did very well and ended up on the podium, but Daniel’s instinct is good. He’s got a taste for that bug.
    “It obviously helps. You can see that in his general approach to all the stunts he gets involved in, including things like the wire work.”
    Collins, who was speaking as cars that he helped to wreck were being installed for Bond in Motion, an exhibition of vehicles used in the films, said that he spent most of his time on Top Gear encouraging celebrities to drive faster. “With Daniel, it was the other way round. He was certainly not shy of going fast. Once the adrenalin was going, you had to [get him to slow down].
    “We’ve done a lot of work with him at Dunsfold aerodrome [where Top Gear laps are filmed]. He did a full workout, from high-speed driving to the evasive stuff, and he really took to it.”
    Craig has not driven any of the reasonably priced cars driven by celebrity guests, but Collins predicted that he would rank highly. “We were in an Aston Martin DBS rather than a Suzuki Liana, which wouldn’t rip the skin off a rice pudding, but you’ve got to be a lot more brave to drive a supercar.”
    He said that May, despite his nickname of “Captain Slow”, had a similar level of skill to his co-presenters because he listens to advice.
    “Jeremy [Clarkson] has his own way of doing everything in life. He’s got his own bombast which sees him through corners one way or another. James is much more technical and listens and plans. It’s hard to say which of them would produce the best lap time. But I’m sure Daniel would [beat them]. He’s Bond. A lot of the stuff you see is him, so it’s right that you believe it’s him.”
    Collins said that he had made his peace with Top Gear’s producers, who had sought to prevent him from publishing a book revealing that he was The Stig, a character whose mysterious identity was a long-running joke on the programme.
    He said that his most memorable role as a Bond film stunt driver was driving the Aston Martin DB5 in Skyfall.
    “‘Never meet your heroes’ is quite a good expression for vintage cars from the Sixties and Seventies, but the DB5 doesn’t roll as much as some of the muscle cars from America. It’s like being in a boat. It’s got a big, wooden steering wheel and it does roll around.
    “The hardest we pushed it is that first scene when it leaves the garage. It has 280bhp, so it’s fairly modest. We did cane it a bit, but this is before the days of limited slip differentials so you get quite a lot of wheelspin. It was zipping through the streets in London. I didn’t want to dent that one. That would have been a P45 in the post.
    “For Quantum of Solace we had 12 Aston Martin DBScs, and they destroyed pretty much all of them.”
    He said that car chases had become increasingly destructive, a trend that began with The French Connection but became entrenched after The Bourne Supremacy.
    “We had Quantum of Solace, with a big car chase at the beginning, so we had to step up to the plate in the same way [as the Bourne films]. They’re starting to bring more and more specialists into the stunt business, so hopefully it won’t go the route of CGI, in which a lot of the fakery gets spotted by the audience.
    “The joy of the Bond movies is that you know it’s not a CGI blob going across the screen.”
    Bond in Motion, an updated version of a previous exhibition held at Beaulieu, Hampshire, will open at the London Film Museum on March 21.


    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/film/article4032896.ece

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I know CGI is required in some films, but when it comes to car chases/crashes, it's the last thing I want to see. It's just so incredibly obvious to me and it really takes me out of the experience. I'm glad there wasn't any of that in CR or QoS.
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    Bits of the rehearsing around 4:35

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    It's so cool watching them train for all the specific scenes in the film. I liked watching Amalric practice with the axe.
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    These featurettes are better then the film, I am afraid to say and more exciting, too.
    Much better then the SF coverage we had. There exist tons of featurettes of QOS, all good amd informative. Underlayed with music and talk unlike much of the SF stuff. They did let us down with that. I say - away with the clupperboards and back to the featurettes
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