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Daniel Craig Interviews in English
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| natta | Дата: Воскресенье, 07 Авг 2011, 11:44 | Сообщение # 51 |
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| выдержки из нового интервью Дэниэла журналу Esquire UK magazine
Daniel Craig to Show a Softer Side to James Bond
About Bond's softer side
'I wanted to instil it with some emotion. If you look at the later Bond films there’s this untouchable thing about him that I wanted to steer away from. [Because] if you’ve set someone up as Teflon-coated it’s very difficult to then show the sensitive side. Give him a kitten? Well, the f**king baddie’s supposed to hold the cat, you know? It’s a tricky thing to deal with,' he said.
Infuse the new Bond movie with 'wryness'.
'The humour has to come from truth, at how ridiculous the situations are. Otherwise it’s just gags for the sake of gags. I’m not interested in that,' he told British magazine Esquire. 'I want to get the wryness back into it. It’s a balance, because you’ve got to believe that he’s going to be alive at the end of the movie. That’s a James Bond movie.'
Craig worried about the state of the
Bond franchise
“If we couldn’t get the film made it would be ridiculous because we’d made all this money and it was a good bet. They were just in a very complicated financial situation but there was nothing [the film-makers] could do. Either it was going to sort itself out or I was going to get too old and that would be the end of it. I was desperate to have another crack at it. I think I would have felt disappointed eventually.”
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| natta | Дата: Среда, 17 Авг 2011, 12:04 | Сообщение # 52 |
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| A man of few words
Peter Mitchell
August 11, 2011
Daniel Craig is a man of few words, just like that cool, tuxedo-wearing, martini-swilling British super spy character he plays so well.
It's not that the 43-year-old is rude.
Craig, apparently, is just not a talker.
"Wait. You got Daniel to talk?" Cowboys & Aliens director Jon Favreau, feigning shock on his face, says.
Favreau is happy to poke fun at Craig, who co-stars with Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde in the genre bending western-sci-fi-action film which, as the title suggests, pits gunslinging cowboys against marauding aliens in a wild west battle.
Favreau's "You got Daniel to talk?" query came after a journalist asked the director a question that began with the words, "Daniel Craig said ... "
"Wow you are good," Favreau says to the journalist when it is confirmed that Craig, in fact, did speak during an earlier interview.
Craig, Favreau, Ford and Wilde have been flown in to the 15,000 hectare Paw's Up luxury ranch in Greenough, Montana, to talk up the $US163 million film with reporters.
Craig, born in Cheshire, England, was pleasant and even cracked a couple of smiles during his interviews, but he admits to being uncomfortable with the Hollywood star tag. He just wants to be an actor toiling with his craft.
"I don't really know what that means," Craig responds when asked if he likes being a Hollywood "mega" star.
"I really don't."
Craig was bitten by the acting bug aged six when he was cast in a school play. When he turned 16 he left his home on the Wirral Peninsula in north-west England to join the National Youth Theatre in London, appeared in stage productions with the Royal National Theatre and worked regularly in supporting roles on Hollywood movies, including as Angelina Jolie's love interest in 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Sam Mendes' 2002 gangster drama with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, Road to Perdition.
It was his hiring in 2005 as James Bond that brought Craig overnight worldwide fame and, when his first Bond film, 2006's Casino Royale, was a monster hit, earning almost $US600 million at the box office and resurrecting the ailing spy franchise, the Englishman's star status was confirmed.
"I enjoy what comes with it, but there's also some bad things that come with it," Craig explains about fame.
"I'm doing a job I love and getting paid for it which is all I ever wanted to do in acting.
"Back when I was at drama school all I wanted to do was make a living out of it and that's what I've managed to do."
Craig's private life has largely been under the radar, with the actor in a six-year relationship with film producer Satsuki Mitchell, but that ended last year. Soon after, Craig was dating English Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz, who had just split from her husband, director Darren Aronofsky, best known for this year's best picture nominated psychological thriller, Black Swan.
In a surprise move, Craig and Weisz married on June 22.
Predictably, Craig is not keen to talk about his marriage.
"No," Craig sternly replies when asked if he went somewhere special for his honeymoon.
The pairing of Craig and Ford in Cowboys & Aliens was a deft move by Favreau and the film's producer, Steven Spielberg, who was keen on signing up both. The acting duo's box office earning record and popularity with film fans is top tier.
Audiences respect both as tough guys, however, being tough, Craig says, is not something that comes easily for him.
"No. God no," he says.
"It's all hard work."
He figures Hollywood keeps hiring him as a tough guy because he's "good at pretending".
In one scene in Cowboys & Aliens Craig and Ford stand toe-to-toe and punch each other in the face.
Neither twitches.
"That was Harrison's idea," Craig, breaking into a smile, says.
"You have two characters that are very tough. He figured either they do that or spend the film out-toughing each other.
"They have guns on their hips, so there is only one place to go eventually and that is to pull the gun and if that happened the movie would be over.
"So, we had to have a scene where we dealt with the fact where we hit each other, I turn my back on him, he doesn't shoot me and then we are ready to go somewhere.
"We had to get it out of the way. It was that simple".
Cowboys & Aliens is based on the graphic novel of the same name and begins with Craig's character, desperado Jake Lonergan, waking up in the New Mexico desert in 1875 with a metallic weapon clamped on to one of his arms. He has no idea how it got there.
Ford plays a Civil War veteran and cattle baron.
When the aliens arrive in 10-legged spacecraft the ragtag townsfolk, many who robbed and fought among themselves, band together to take on the unwelcome visitors.
"I thought it would be a comedy," Craig, recalling the moment he first saw the film's title, says.
"When I received the script I said 'I'll read it. It looks like fun'.
"But, what I loved about it was it was played straight.
"It was real characters experiencing things and getting together.
"I thought that's what you want to happen in a film like this.
"The comedy is in the title. That's the gag, but the movie is not about gags."
Craig has no plans to change his ways and will continue to choose roles largely based on the quality of a script.
He doesn't care who he impresses and is not scared of rejection.
"I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago. Way before James Bond," Craig explains.
"As an actor, you have to forget about that.
"I have been up for parts and it has come down to two people and they go for the person with brown eyes.
"When that's the decision, you just have to say, 'f it'. You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
"I don't care what other people are doing.
"I don't care about how much other actors get.
"If you start worrying and getting jealous of other people around you, you're f. You're screwed.
"The grass is always greener somewhere else. There's always a nicer trailer.
"Someone always has a better perk than you.
"Me? I'm happy.
"I can be James Bond, but then I get to work with Harrison Ford on Cowboys & Aliens and I still feel starstruck."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/enterta....GsmGdUq
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| kahlan | Дата: Суббота, 05 Ноя 2011, 02:15 | Сообщение # 53 |
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| GQ&A: Daniel Craig
He is reknowned for treating every interview like a Le Chivre interrogation - but thankfully I've left my knotted rope behind. The Daniel Craig I meet in Claridges is funny, self-deprecating and clearly relishing the chance to chat about cowboys, aliens and everything in between. Here he gives GQ.com his advice on how to pick the perfect off-the-peg suit, prepare a great margarita and reveals who would be his Man Of The Year.
GQ.com: You once described yourself as a "suit snob". What do you like about Brunello Cucinelli suits?
Daniel Craig: "They're so luxurious - they're light, great and seem to fit me. Buying off the peg, it can be a bit difficult to find something that fits you but I put on a Brunello Cucinelli and I didn't have to get it adjusted. It's the same with Tom Ford - if I put them his off the peg and they fit me like a glove. I can't be bothered waiting around for all the tailoring - unless you're getting a suit made."
What do you consider the most stylish film?
"Steve McQueen always had it. Look at The Thomas Crown Affair - it's one of the most stylish films there is. Certain movies of the late Sixties are [because] suits were worn by everybody. It's not so much that way anymore. Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit. [indicates GQ.com's Thom Browne tie]
You've got a nice thin tie - it doesn't look ike you're wearing a business suit. Although you are at work, apparently..."
What's on Craig's iPod?
Jon Favreau famously likes AC/DC and always wanted to get Sinatra's music into a film. Which music do you agree on?
"I like AC/DC. Come on, everyone loves AC/DC. I like a bit of Sinatra, occasionally, for the evening, over a margarita. What have I been listening to recently? A band called Morning Wood which I downloaded that the other day which I really liked. I always liked Kings of Leon, if they're still together. Anything really - it's awful to say but I have have a very eclectic mix of my ipod which you have the balls to put it on shuffle. There's all sorts: Serge Gainsbourg, Aimee Mann and other rougher stuff. Much more rock'n' roll. Honestly!"
Bringing Oasis to the screen
Noel Gallagher wanted you to play him in a biopic - are you excited about his solo record?
"As what [laughs]? What part of his life would I play? If I play him he can play me he can play me. Am I a Liam or a Noel man? I know Noel better than I know Liam - I suppose I'd have to go for Noel."
Neither shaken nor stirred
You have said in interviews you tend to be allowed two drinks before someone starts bothering you. What are those two drinks?
"It's a generalized answer - I'm sorry it is one that I give. If I could squeeze in five I will. If I'm in a pub I can drink Guinness."
Working with Jon Favreau
You once told Sam Taylor Wood there is "room for craziness" in any a director. How did Jon Favreau's craziness manifest itself?
"Fun! Apart from being a great director, Jon is actually a very funny actor. We had an immense amount of fun on set. It's important when doing a film like this to have a lightness of touch because you are pulling together an awful lot of things. We're on set with 50 horses, five or six big actors, you need an understanding of human nature let us say. He's got a great sense of fun and he knows' when to tell the gag. Did Sam tell you that? [laughs] Did she?!"
What everyone was drinking on set
Olivia Wilde said that you were a great bartender at the cast parties. What's the secret to a good on set margarita?
"I never had them on set. I would have liked to but I was never allowed. A good margarita is in the lime: it's got to lean towards the sour. Tequila once you mixed it into a cocktail could be anything - as long as it's fairly decent it's ok. It's the sourness to sweet ratio that is really important."
Talking about Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino is about to make a spaghetti Western Django Unchained. What advice would you give him?
"Probably not going to be very violent is it? [laughs] I don't need to give Quentin Tarantino advice. Jesus! He wouldn't listen anyway. Get it right. Don't be s***. Make a good Western. That would be my advice."
The love it or hate it job
Was being "Mr Marmite" at the Reading Save-a-Centre the worst job you've ever done?
"No it wasn't. There are worse. It was one of the worst. What was the worst? Literally shouvelling s***."
On working with his heroes
Having had Paul Newman made dirty jokes on Road to Perdition and Harrison Ford make jokes about your chaps, do you still get star struck?
"Yes, of course. I do. Its weird You get star struck around sports stars as well. I think if you lose sight of that you're screwed. It's nice to meet people like Harrison - I've been watching his films for 40 years."
Living his life in the public eye
What's the biggest media misconception about you?
"That I don't like Marmite? I don't know. There are a lot but I don't give them much thought. I have to be myself."
Selecting his Man Of The Year
Who would be your Man Of The Year?
"F*** I'd wish you'd asked me that earlier. I could have given it some serious thought. I don't yet. Kenny Dalglish is my Man Of The Year every year. How do I think they'll line up [this season]? There's positve talk about fourth place and Dalglish thinks we can do better than that. I believe him."
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Daniel Craig talks about finally reprising the role of James Bond for 23rd movie Skyfall and what he feels he has brought to the role so far. He also discusses his career in general and why getting his shirt off is 'part of the gig'.
Are you feeling comfortable with this role now that it's your third time round?
Daniel Craig: Very comfortable and just tremendously excited... just look at the people we've got in the movie. And we've assembled an incredible crew, and Sam [Mendes]'s at the helm and we actually start shooting today so this is it! It's too late now, no turning back.
What have you tried to bring to the Bond character thus far and will Skyfall provide the opportunity to further that?
Daniel Craig: It's really... I don't know how to answer that. All I know is that in doing a third one, and being lucky enough to get the chance to do the third one, it was my intention to make the best Bond movie that we possibly could, and Bond with a capital B, and I'm just incredibly proud to be part of this gang of people here who've agreed to come and do it. With their help we're going to make that happen. So, what am I bringing to the character? It's in the script, really. That's where I get it from and we've got a great script.
How frustrating has the wait been for this new film? Were there ever any doubts in your mind that it would get going again?
Daniel Craig: Strangely, it wasn't frustrating because there's really nothing I could do about it, it was a financial issue and I just had to let them get on with it, and I was just fortunate enough and lucky enough to be able to go off and do some other projects [The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Cowboys & Aliens] so I kept myself busy. It's kind of been frustrating, funnily enough, over the past three months, because now everything's ready and I just want to get going. So, the past few months have just been about getting to this point. [Pointing towards producers Babara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson] They just kept at it and at it, and the reason we're here today is because of these two. So, on a personal note I'd just like to say that having these two people in my life has changed my life... they made it happen, basically.
On a slightly more frivolous note, are we guaranteed you and Javier will be taking your shirts off quite a lot?
Daniel Craig: [Laughs] That's the gig! We had to cut a few scenes out... It's when I keep my shirt on we should be talking about. And Javier's stripped naked for most of the movie.
Coming back to the point you made about being able to pursue a lot of diverse roles recently, is that something you have actively tried to do in order to avoid being typecast as Bond?
Daniel Craig: I just like working. I mean it's as simple as that. I don't think about it, genuinely. And like I said earlier, I've been lucky enough to get some really nice roles thrown at me, and I grabbed them. But if I could do this for a few more years I'd be more than happy.
Will you be doing this for a few more years?
Daniel Craig: [Gestures towards Barbara Broccoli] Ask her... [She answers 'Yes. Yes, definitely!']
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| natta | Дата: Суббота, 05 Ноя 2011, 09:33 | Сообщение # 54 |
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| kahlan, спасибо большое, русской версии нет, и если у тебя будет время и желание для перевода буду очень признательна 
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| kahlan | Дата: Вторник, 29 Ноя 2011, 15:30 | Сообщение # 55 |
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| Пара цитат из интервью для GQ
With his new movie "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" less than a month away from release, a press focused Daniel Craig is featured on the cover of the January 2012 issue of British GQ.
Set to hit newsstands on December 1st, the Bond actor brings his suave ways to the magazine's front page while chatting about topics such as why he won't play the fame game, his unique take on "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and the extremes he has gone to in order to find the ultimate Bond.
As for his efforts to keep his marriage to Rachel Weisz private - Daniel explained that he didn't want the media circus to "f**k it up."
He said, "We got away with it. We did it privately. And we've got a lot of people to thank for that. But that was the point. We did it for private reasons. Because we didn't want it f***ed up, because that would be sharing a secret. And the whole point is that it was a secret. A secret is a secret in my mind."
Adding that he's quite happy and is in it for the long run, the 43-year-old told, "I'm in love, I'm very happy. And that is as far as I'm prepared to go. Life is long, life goes wrong and I don't want to say something now that might be thrown back later."
Craig added, "Ultimately, people are saying, 'Give it six months.' Well guess what? I'm not responding. Life is long and I am hopefully in this for the long run."
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| Betina | Дата: Вторник, 29 Ноя 2011, 16:47 | Сообщение # 56 |
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| Quote (kahlan) t he didn't want the media circus to "f**k it up
 что еще можно было от него услышать в сторону репортеров))
Quote (kahlan) And that is as far as I'm prepared to go.
вона как... никаких долговечных клятв, обещаний, just now и все. ну посмотрим, чейто он так осторожничает))
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| Daniel_team | Дата: Среда, 30 Ноя 2011, 01:22 | Сообщение # 57 |
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| Quote (Betina) ну посмотрим, чейто он так осторожничает))
раввина и 10 баксов никто не отменял, если что 
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| natta | Дата: Воскресенье, 11 Дек 2011, 11:53 | Сообщение # 58 |
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| Daniel Craig exclusive interview
Dave Calhoun talks Bond, Dragon Tattoo and publicity stunts with the British Star
Daniel Craig is doing a terrific impression of a smiling buffoon. The actor is explaining how he’s rubbish at grinning on demand and is always branded ‘mean and moody’ whenever he’s snapped unexpectedly by a photographer. So now he’s giving me his best forced smile. It’s not pretty. ‘I’m just not that person,’ he laughs. ‘So people have a perception that I’m grumpy all the time.’
You could say that as James Bond he has a reputation to protect. The 43 year old is currently shooting his third Bond film, ‘Skyfall’, although when we meet in late September in a downtown Soho hotel in New York City – he lives in Manhattan with his new wife, Rachel Weisz – it’s a quieter time for him. He’s between finishing some pick-up shots for ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ in August in Los Angeles and flying to London to begin working on ‘Skyfall’ with the British director Sam Mendes.
‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is the reason we’ve met. Craig is dressed in his usual off-duty uniform of dark T-shirt and jeans, rounded out with some colourful Nikes and a chunky watch (a 007 sponsorship tie-in, perchance?). He has clearly been working out and tells me he’s down the gym every day to prepare for being Bond.
He’s full of praise for ‘Dragon Tattoo’ director David Fincher (responsible for ‘The Social Network’), who has followed three recent Swedish films of Stieg Larsson’s ‘Millennium’ books with his own, English-language version of the first novel. Craig is Mikael Blomkvist, the journalist on his uppers who hooks up with troubled computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara, who played Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend at the beginning of ‘The Social Network’) to investigate a serial killer. The film was Craig’s last non-Bond duty before dusting off the tuxedo and leaping back into the world of 007 this autumn.
You’ve said before that talking to the press is like going to the dentist. Do you feel any differently now you’ve played a journalist?
‘Oh yeah, now I understand! [Laughs] I feel so much better about it! The truth is, I don’t have any problem with journalists – I count some of them as friends – also some of my heroes are journalists, I’m a big fan of Robert Fisk – great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what’s right.
‘And I like the guy in this film, Mikael Blomkvist, but what I like about him is that he’s flawed, he’s a complex, weak, egotistical man on a moral crusade. And all those things combined are interesting, plus he has this brilliant relationship with this girl, Lisbeth Salander, this damaged, hyper-intelligent human being. On paper, they shouldn’t come together, but they do and they respond to each other. She’s the one with the balls in the relationship. He’s happy to watch while she beats someone up.’
Rooney Mara looks terrifying as Salander.
‘There were shenanigans going on while she was being cast [about whether she was right: Natalie Portman, Carey Mulligan and Scarlett Johansson were all linked to the role]. David Fincher was adamant and I get that. Just look at the beginning of “The Social Network”, she’s phenomenal. She’s got something about her, but also she’s physically perfect. When she puts the hoodie on and the leather jacket, she looks like a 14-year-old boy, she looks sexless. Which is perfect. The other side of it is that when she doesn’t have that on, she’s really sexy.
‘That combination is absolutely true to the book. Salander’s someone who would walk down the street and you wouldn’t notice. That’s how she wants it, that’s how she’s survived in her life. She’s switched herself off from humanity and she walks in the shadows.’
Your character is Swedish, it’s set in Sweden, but you speak English with no accent. Was there a debate behind that?
‘Some people in the film have accents and some don’t. I don’t. I had a long conversation with David about it and said that a lot of Scandinavians speak English perfectly. I’m one of those guys. We’ve got Danish people, Swedish people, English people, American people. The only thing that matters, as far as I’m concerned, is that no one sounds American. We sound as European as possible. We’re all speaking one common language and that happens to be English. I didn’t want an accent to get in the way, and for me it would. Salander has no formal education and she has a street accent, it’s quite specific.
‘They shot all of “Wallander”, the Kenneth Branagh thing, in Sweden and it works brilliantly. You need that Swedish train in the background or the Volvo – of which there are many! Count them: Volvo, Volvo, Volvo… Saab!’
Were you into the books before?
‘I had read them already. I stole a paperback off someone on holiday. Then I read the other two. You’d be at the airport and see the cross-section of people who were reading them, that’s how I noticed them. I kept seeing it on the bestsellers list and had no idea what it was about, and then you’d find 80-year-old men and 14-year-old girls reading it. That’s phenomenal.’
You can’t have needed much encouragement to work with David Fincher after ‘The Social Network’.
‘I think that film was a real shift for him in the way he makes movies. I think his visual style was all there, but it was embedded in the movie in a way I hadn’t seen before. I love all his movies, but “Fight Club” dated because the visual style was copied in commercials and if you’re that cutting edge you’re always going to be up against that. You’re creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them. With “The Social Network”, I felt there was a maturing of him, he’s always been a great filmmaker but he suddenly became confident about storytelling and visual stuff and the two married together in a way I hadn’t seen him do with such confidence.’
You’re about to start shooting the new Bond film. How do you feel about it? Is there a sense of ‘Hell, here we go for the next seven months…’ just because it’s such a massive undertaking?
‘Yes, there’s definitely some of that, but I’m genuinely really excited because we’ve got a script. The deciding factor for doing “Casino Royale”, even though I was umming and aahhing, going [puts on moody voice] “I don’t know if I want to do it”, was that they showed me the script and I thought: Fuck, I’ve got to do this. And I think this one is better. I really do. It’s a totally original story. I read it and it just works as a story. It sounds like a simplistic thing to say, but you read it and you go: “Oh yeah, I get that, yeah, and oh, yes, yes, okay,” and that’s unusual.’
It seems that the script is sometimes an after-thought on huge productions.
‘Yes and you swear that you’ll never get involved with shit like that, and it happens. On “Quantum”, we were fucked. We had the bare bones of a script and then there was a writers’ strike and there was nothing we could do. We couldn’t employ a writer to finish it. I say to myself, “Never again”, but who knows? There was me trying to rewrite scenes – and a writer I am not.’
You had to rewrite scenes yourself?
‘Me and the director [Marc Forster] were the ones allowed to do it. The rules were that you couldn’t employ anyone as a writer, but the actor and director could work on scenes together. We were stuffed. We got away with it, but only just. It was never meant to be as much of a sequel as it was, but it ended up being a sequel, starting where the last one finished.’
It was still a massive commercial success though. So it wasn’t a failure in that sense.
‘No, quite. Thank God it worked, and it worked like gangbusters. But for me personally, on a level of feeling satisfied, I would want to do better next time. That’s really important to me.’
To give a better performance?
‘No, the whole film. If you’re going to do that sort of stuff, you’ve just got to get it right. You’ve got to give it your best shot. When you’ve got all that talent, everyone gunning to make it good, you’ve got to get it… For fuck’s sake, it’s a Bond movie. You want people to go, “Whooah!” – a sharp intake of breath during a movie is never a bad thing.’
Did you have anything to do with getting Sam Mendes on board as director
‘I did, yes, I did. He’s English, he’s Cambridge-educated, he’s smart. He’s lived with Bond all his life, he grew up with Bond the way I did. We grew up at exactly the same time, and I said to him, “We have to do this together, we have exactly the same reference points, we both like the same Bond movies and we both like the same bits in the same Bond movies we like.” We sat down and we just rabbited for hours about “Live and Let Die” or “From Russia with Love”, and talked about little scenes that we knew from them. That’s how we started talking about it. That’s what we tried to instill in the script. He’s been working his arse off to tie all these things together so they make sense – in a Bond way.’
I love that Sam Mendes’s last film was ‘Away We Go’ – his most indie film yet.
‘Yes, that’s true, and now he’s making a $200m Bond movie. He’s an OCD control freak and I mean that in the nicest possible way, as all directors are. David Fincher included. They are all absolutely single-minded and all they want to do is get it right. On a movie like this, you need that – maybe I shouldn’t call him an “OCD control freak”: it’s a joke, but you need someone with lots of different heads – there’s a producing head, a directing head, a special-effects head, a publicity head. More than any other movie, you need someone with all that going on, and he just does, he’s a manager, a great manager, and one of the skills doing a Bond movie is about is managing a lot of people, saying, “Okay, do that, that’s got to be done, and I’ll do that.” It’s a tricky fucking job to do.’
It sounds like you’ve become even more involved behind the scenes as time has gone on.
‘I said from the very beginning to Barbara [Broccoli] and Michael [Wilson, the producers and guardians of the Bond franchise]: “If you give me this responsibility, I can just walk on that set and pretend to be James Bond,” but they allowed me to be involved more. It’s naturally progressed. I don’t want to get in people’s way, I just want to encourage things along. Sam got involved and then we got Roger Deakins [the director of photography], for fuck’s sake, who’s shooting it. The air is rare, and we’ve had the chance to employ some brilliant people. Win or lose, we’ve done the best we can because we’ve put the right people in the job. Pool the best talent you can, give them a good time and do the best we can – now I sound like a fucking politician!’
Did you worry about becoming public property – tabloid fodder – when you took on Bond?
‘Yes, in some respects it’s unavoidable, you can’t deny it. In some respects, I still fight with it now. I can’t go to war with paparazzi. The Daily Mail loves saying – [putting whiny voice on] “He never smiles” – yeah, because I know you’re fucking taking pictures of me, that’s why. Because the Daily Mail comes to mind every time I see a camera. I challenge anybody to fucking smile. I’m just not that person.
‘But I do get it, you can’t just come out and be angry. There’s no fucking point. You’ve got to live your life. I know I’m not that person. I’m never going to arrive at an airport after a 12-hour flight and go, “Oh, hi everyone, it’s so great to see you!” I can’t do it. You’ve got to live your life, you’ve got to enjoy it. And this is a great time, I’m playing James Bond. That’s what makes me secure about it, I’m having a lot of fun with it and getting a kick out of it, and people have a perception that I’m grumpy all the time.’
I remember when they announced you as Bond they had you speeding down the Thames on a boat. You obviously decided to swallow your worries about exposure to the press for that…
‘They wanted to fly me in on a Harrier jump jet! I remember thinking: “Okay, in for a penny…” But the safety regulations stopped that idea. The irony was, I got down to the river, to the military speedboat, and there was this marine giving me a lifejacket. And I was like, “Do I have to wear a life jacket?”, and he was like, “Yeah, you’re not getting on this boat without one.” But what about my suit!
‘It was a strange transition that time. I had no idea what was going on. Who could I ask? “Hey, Pierce [Brosnan], what’s it like?” I did do that. And he was just: “You’ve got to go for it.” There’s nothing that he could say that could be of any use whatsoever.’
Did you worry about being seen forever as Bond?
‘I weighed everything up and the only reason not to do it was fear. The fear of losing everything else. And you can’t not do something because you’re afraid. Well, you can, jumping off cliffs and things like that, but to be afraid of losing something because I was going to play James Bond is kind of nonsense. That’s how I convinced myself. I thought: Even if it goes wrong, hopefully I’ll earn enough money to live on an island when I’m old and get a leathery brown tan! And drink cocktails in the afternoon. Which sounds quite good to tell the truth.’
Before Bond, you had success with smart British films – ‘Layer Cake’, ‘The Mother’ – but you hadn’t broken America, had you?
‘I went to audition for a lot of bad guys in American movies and was sick of going on tape to play the villain in this and that film…and then losing out to fucking… no, I’d better not say who!’
I think the ‘fucking’ bit scuppered that answer…
‘Yes! [Laughs] Let’s just say “the usual suspects”. So, apart from those films, luckily I was able to do really interesting English and European films. Thank God people like Roger Michell [director of ‘The Mother’] wanted to see me in these movies.’
Rewinding to the start. Did you really leave home in Chester at the age of 16 to join the National Youth Theatre in London? It seems young.
‘I left Chester in 1985, when it was as depressed as it could be. My mother says I wasn’t 16, so maybe I was 17 by the time I properly left home. But I definitely left at 16 and spent the summer in London. I lived in north London, west London, stayed on people’s floors until they chucked me out. We didn’t have any money, but my mum would bung me a couple of hundred quid, and they were people willing to look out for me. I managed to scrape it together. God knows how, it’s terrifying really. My mother gave me a gentle push. School had failed. There wasn’t a lot to do. I wanted to act and she knew that there wasn’t much going in Liverpool and I had to go to London.’
In the early 1990s, you won film roles even before you finished three years at Guildhall studying drama. Do you remember how it felt being on a film set for the first time?
‘In my third year I went up for a bad guy in an American movie. A South African. And I got it. I went to do this movie in South Africa and Zimbabwe and I just lost it, I forgot how to act. Everybody was saying, “Oh , you’re so intense, you’re so intense.” [Does his best ‘intense’ impression and bursts out laughing] I was shit-scared! I’d forgotten how to act! It wasn’t until doing the TV series “Our Friends in the North” in 1996 that I remembered what it was about. Doing that for a year changed everything. I remembered what I loved about acting. All the old hands were like, “Fucking relax, just enjoy it.” Literally, until that point, I was like a rabbit caught in the headlights. “Oh, you’re so intense! So angry!” ’[Cracks up again]
Do you wrestle with the more vain side of movie acting? The fact you’re expected to look good?
‘Me and my very close friend call it “modelling”. I don’t find myself particularly good at it. But you find yourself having to model sometimes in movies. It’s kind of that. [He does a ‘Blue Steel’ impression, tipping his chin, giving it the stare.] Some people are really good at it. And then you watch it and you go, “Oh, that’s fucking modelling, what are you doing?” But it is part of movie-making. That’s what I like about David Fincher, too. He’s got an eye for that. He might say, “Tip your chin,” and you know he’s looking at an angle, he’s looking at the lighting. I love that. If you’re too aware of yourself I think it goes wrong, I really do. As long as my ears don’t stick out too much, I’m happy.
‘The greatest asset to an actor is their ego, but it’s also their greatest enemy. The ego gives you the balls to get up there and do it, but it’s also the thing that scuppers you because you’ve got to act, you’ve got to communicate, you’ve got to think about what the other person’s thinking, not whether you look good.’
As Bond, you’re virtually a pin-up, aren’t you?
‘The iconography of it is really important. I’ve just spent three or four months on and off with Tom Ford, trying suits on, over and over. It’s important. It just is. Whichever is the first suit I come out in, it has to have the reaction, “Oh, fucking hell, that’s a suit.” You have to have an eye on that and the look and feel of things. I’m in the gym every day, that’s the truth, I have to be there. I have to start doing it ten weeks off from filming, otherwise it doesn’t work.’
And, as Bond, you have to whip off your top at some point. So vanity surely comes into play?
‘To answer your question – yes!’
http://www.timeout.com/london....terview
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| natta | Дата: Среда, 21 Дек 2011, 10:14 | Сообщение # 59 |
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| Interview - Daniel Craig
Bond talks Blomkvist
It may be the season of festive cheer but David Fincher and his cast and crew are set to unleash a very different kind of Christmas movie as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo hits cinemas from the 26th of December. We talk to Daniel Craig about his take on the book, the character of Lisbeth Salander and how he caught the acting bug.
Q: What appealed to you most about making this movie?
A: I think that David Fincher was the first touching point, but also the script by Steve Zaillian. I knew the books and I knew how popular they were, and certainly how good the first one was. I had read that in seconds. I was really, really impressed by what Steven had done with the script and combining that with David and the fact that Sony was happy to make this a movie for grown-up audiences, it was too tempting.
Q: Had you read the books before your involvement in the film?
A: Yes, and they’re wonderful bits of popular literature. What got me the most was when the first book started hitting the top of the best-seller lists and you would walk around airports and the cross-section of people that were reading it was so surprising, from teenage girls to 80-year-old men and women. These books seem to have a mass appeal, which was unexplainable, until I had read them, and then I got it. A lot of it is down to Lisbeth Salander and the complexity of that character. She just makes a great hero.
Q: Why do you think that the Lisbeth Salander character is so appealing?
A: I think that one of the main reasons is that she is a victim and she has had a really rough time. Life has dealt her a pretty rough deck of cards but she is very intelligent and bright and the way she has decided to deal with the world is to hide away from it. But within that she manages to get her own back. I think that resonates. It is only my opinion but there is a secret desire within all of us to get it right, to do the right thing. She is morally questionable but actually she just knows what is right and wrong.
Q: What sort of man is your character, journalist Mikael Blomqvist?
A: He crusades for justice within the capitalist system and at the beginning of the book he has just had his nuts cut off, metaphorically. It is his ego that I find fascinating really. His ego has allowed him to get himself into this wretched state because he thought of himself as invincible and he paid the price for that, which you find out in the story.
Q: Rooney Mara had a lot of training for this film, but I guess that wasn’t the case for you, playing a journalist?
A: I have a lot of friends who are journalists, foreign journalists, or financial correspondents. I have known them all my adult life. As regards my character, I like to think that there is a bit of a Jeremy Paxman somewhere in there, someone who goes for their target and is a bit of terrier in the way they investigate people and try to find truth and justice. I had just come off Cowboys and Aliens when I started the movie and I was as skinny as I had been when I was 16 years old, and David was literally giving me bowls of pasta to fatten me up. In his opinion I didn’t look like a journalist [laughs]!
Q: Did you have very severe weather conditions when shooting in Sweden?
A: It was okay, though it must have been tough on Rooney. The poor girl was probably six-and-a-half stone wet through when she was doing this movie because she was working out every day and dieting. She was waif-like because her character was that way, so she wasn’t carrying an awful lot of fat to keep her warm. Her jeans had lots of rips in them and her costume was pretty thin. She really suffered. I had a layer of fat and thermal underwear so I was all right!
Q: How intense was this shoot compared to a James Bond movie?
A: I am lucky to have done Bond movies and you film straight for six months. Basically, it is very hard to do the Bond movies, but this was as intense in other ways. It was a big acting job. It is what I do for a living. It is very hard but it is truly satisfying work, especially working with people like Rooney and David and everyone else. It is an amazing cast in this film. It has been a year almost that we’ve worked on this film and all that matters is that we get it right. That’s all.
Q: Can you have fun on set even when the filming is intense and the material is often quite dark?
A: I think that actually makes you laugh more. The more serious the subject matter the more likely you are to have fits of giggles, just from the very nature of it. David likes to keep things light on set but also when things get too distracting, he brings it back. You need to know when to laugh and when to keep quiet. You keep your concentration up and occasionally you let off steam. Rooney was put through the mill on this film, though. She had a lot of very intense scenes to do. Thank God she is as stoic and as level-headed as she is, because I think other people would have lost their minds. I didn’t have to put up with so much. It was intense, though. It was a tough shoot but a very, very satisfying one.
Q: Apart from her stoicism, what else did you admire about Rooney?
A: She had to do a very tough part. She is incredibly level-headed and incredibly mature as an actor in the sense that she takes her job very, very seriously but not that seriously. She does exactly what she has to do but she keeps herself herself. That may sound like an obvious statement but she is very much in control of what she does and for me she was very easy to work with. Her and David have a very tight relationship, which is important because he was pushing her in all sorts of ways. She had a huge amount of confidence in David and trusted him.
Q: David Fincher and Steve Zaillian’s adaptation has tailored a chunky book into a digestible feature-length movie, but fans shouldn’t be concerned, right?
A: In spite of the fact that I have read the books, my great source of material is Zaillian’s adaptation and it goes without saying that when you adapt a book you have to mess with it because you are turning it into a movie. You are moving something into a visual medium and that means you are going to lose a great deal, but you are also going to gain a great deal, and those are the things you have to look at. We had to change locations for a few things and it made sense. It kept things tighter and I don’t have any remorse about it all. I think you present the piece of work as is because you are moving from a literary medium into a visual medium. There is nothing to be done. You can’t be apologetic about it.
Q: Did you make a conscious decision not to watch the existing Swedish-language film adaptations?
A: Yes, it was a very conscious decision. Honestly, I had the screeners with me. I was in New Mexico when I was offered this role. I had the screeners and was planning to watch all of them. Then this offer came along and I thought, ‘Well, I don’t want to see them now. I can’t. I just don’t want to be clouded in any way.’ Obviously, there are things that are going to be similar. We are using the same source material. And I just didn’t want to have that in my mind when we were doing our movie.
Q: When you were at college, or even beforehand, what turned you onto acting?
A: Genuinely, without a hint of a lie, it is what I have wanted to do all of my life. I think I got some sort of a bug when I was a kid and I watched movies avidly when I was nine or ten, going to the cinema as much as I possibly could. And I was fortunate enough to be taken to the theatre as a kid to see a lot of plays and it stuck with me and it never went away.
Q: Were there certain films that you always returned to as a kid?
A: I didn’t watch classic films as a kid. That came later. For me it was things like Close Encounters, Blade Runner, Alien. Weirdly, a lot of science fiction was coming out at that time and it was the cutting edge of moviemaking. For me it was mind-blowing. I remember seeing Blade Runner the first time in the cinema round the corner from where we lived and I had no idea what I was watching. No idea. I had never experienced anything like it and I think back then I thought that I wanted to be in films like that. You have got directors who have an incredible sense of style and visual flair. I am a huge Hitchcock fan and he had that thing of combining storytelling, especially thrillers, with amazing visual panache.
Q: Would you ever want to produce, write or direct?
A: I don’t know. Yes, in theory I would love to do something. I just watched The Ides of March last night, which was brilliant. What can’t George Clooney do? It is directed with real assurance and it is very sexy and it is deeply political and interesting and it is kind of fun. But honestly I think directing is a thankless task. Everybody is looking to you and asking you questions all the time: ‘What do we do now?’ I’m not sure that it is for me.
http://www.clickonline.com/movies/interview--daniel-craig/5267/
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| kahlan | Дата: Пятница, 23 Дек 2011, 02:20 | Сообщение # 60 |
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| Fans of Daniel Craig can get two scoops of the actor this week in theaters -- in both kid-friendly and decidedly adult form. Craig is the man behind Sakharine in "The Adventures of Tintin" and a crusading Swedish magazine reporter in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." After that, though, you'll have to wait until fall 2012 for "Skyfall," his next iteration as James Bond.
We caught up with Craig on a break from filming "Skyfall" in early December in London, where he had gathered with "Dragon Tattoo" cast and director David Fincher to talk about the film.
In “Dragon Tattoo,” Craig’s Mikael Blomkvist is a journalist fallen from grace due to a libel court case. His life is profoundly affected when he meets Goth über-hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), who attempts to disguise her inner pain via blunt manners, facial piercings and elaborate body tattoos.
Phantasmagoric, “Matrix" meets H.R. Giger style of opening credits (by Tim Miller’s Blur, of Venice) kick off “Dragon Tattoo” as Karen O belts out a new arrangement of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” “Fincher does that kind of sinister stuff incredibly well, huh?" says Craig, 43, suave in a dark blue navy style sweater and trousers. "Those opening credits definitely give us food for thought in terms of the next Bond.”
The intense British actor has read the Stieg Larsson books thoroughly. Larsson was a politically active, left-wing Swedish journalist, who died just before his Millennium Trilogy was published, starting with “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”
Q: What captivated you the most about Stieg Larsson’s novels?
DC: I think the essential themes of the books have to do with the politics of sexuality. The main protagonist, Lisbeth Salander, has been beaten down all her life. Still she manages somehow to survive, succeed and even flourish. Lisbeth has a true sense of injustice in the world. Not just for herself, but for other people, too. The man I play in the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, is a true kindred spirit, as he understands injustice and wants to get to the truth of it, just like Lisbeth. Blomkvist and Salander come together at a certain point, and have this turbulent relationship, which is complex, interesting, sexy and funny. The elements of that relationship are featured prominently in the book, and also in our movie.
Q: Why do you think David Fincher and Sony Pictures decided to go forward and re-adapt Stieg Larsson’s trilogy so soon after the original Scandinavian adaptations, which were released only a few years ago?
DC: Because the books are just plain good old storytelling, that’s why. The books are extremely popular globally, and hopefully with this movie they’ll be even more widely read. This was a chance for us to gather a massive talent pool together, and create something very much for the adult market, and yet something that works for the mass appeal market as well. I, for one, was very excited about the idea.
Q: David Fincher is one of those quintessential cinematic masters, with his own unique style, and yet he evokes the feel of perfectionists like Stanley Kubrick. Was the sheer level of craft the main reason you wanted to be in this movie, and work with Fincher?
DC: I think David has many similarities with Stanley Kubrick. He’s also clearly been inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, particularly in how he handles dialogue. Fincher’s defining himself as a director, he’s matured a lot in the past 20 years, if you look at the movies he’s done. His movies were always good in my opinion, but his craft has just gotten better over the years, especially the recent ones. I’m a big fan of his, so when they asked me to be involved, it was an easy question to answer. Yes! I’ve wanted to work with David Fincher for a long time.
Q: I understand that the arctic climate wasn’t always kind to you, the rest of the cast or the crew while making “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” in Sweden. Clearly, David Fincher and the studio thought that you really couldn’t stage this kind of Nordic ambience anywhere else, am I right?
DC: Sure, we all froze our [butts] off. There’s an incredibly rich culture of storytelling in northern Europe, because it’s very dark there a lot of the year. You’ve got to have something to do, while the lights are out. Telling ghost stories and stories about murder and danger are good ways of keeping yourself entertained. That’s been done in northern Europe and the Nordic countries for thousands of years. Being there and filming “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” in Sweden was incredibly important for us all – for the reasons of light, the cold and the general atmosphere. There was absolutely no point of uprooting this story and shooting it somewhere else. It just had to be Sweden, it had to be Stockholm.
Q: Since you’re in London, shooting “Skyfall” -– and even looking like 007 right now -– do you still feel as good about the upcoming Bond movie as you did before the shoot?
DC: Oh yes. It’s a great, fantastic script, and we’re making a very good Bond movie. It’s going to be very special and different, but it’s still very much tied to Bonds of old. I’ve said it over and over again, but I’m very excited about “Skyfall,” and Sam’s [Mendes, the director] doing a wonderful job.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies....rm.html
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| natta | Дата: Пятница, 23 Дек 2011, 14:03 | Сообщение # 61 |
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| 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': An Interview With Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, and David Fincher
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a movie for outcasts (and everyone else). Louise Roug sat down with Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, and David Fincher to discuss it.
For one thing, her sense of purpose is admirable.
“Horrible things happen to her. And she wanders home. And she sits there. She lights a cigarette, and she fumes. And you don’t know what’s going on in her head. The next time you see her, she’s got a Taser and a 30-pound chrome dildo, and she’s got a plan,” says David Fincher, who directed the much-anticipated movie The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. “You don’t need her to say, ‘This is not right what’s happened to me, and I have to make it right.’ You see her at the hardware store, buying tape and zip ties and black ink.”
From its opening credits–a slick but dark montage of bodies that come together only to pull apart, dissolve, or explode–to its final, gloomy scene, this is a movie about intimacy and control reflecting the grim but central idea of Stieg Larsson’s novel: a meeting between two people is invariably a struggle over power. In this universe, most men are monsters. But even those who aren’t end up causing hurt, out of thoughtlessness or neglect.
It’s a bleak depiction of human relationships, which, when done by Fincher, is unapologetically grown-up–and utterly entertaining.
Toward the beginning of the movie, which opens Dec. 20, Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), the patriarch of the dysfunctional Vanger dynasty, hires investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) to solve the mysterious disappearance of Vanger’s niece from an isolated island in northern Sweden decades ago. Before long, Blomkvist shares both the investigation and his bed with Salander (Rooney Mara), a young computer hacker with a murky past.
While visually stylish in Fincher’s hands—and with a screenplay written by Steven Zaillian, who specializes in literary adaptations and who won an Oscar for Schindler’s List—the movie plays out the messy plot points of the book: ritualistic murders, aging Nazis, sexual assault, and incest. And rather than downplay the book’s most infamous scene–anal rape followed by shocking, yet gratifying, retribution–Fincher has turned it up a notch. The R rating is fully deserved.
“I don’t think I would have been interested in making another thriller if there hadn’t been a commitment to making it for an adult audience,” says Fincher, who spent months with Mara and Craig, living in Sweden as they shot the movie.
When I meet the three of them together recently at the Dorchester Hotel in London, their familial banter and propensity to finish each other’s thoughts suggest just a touch of, well, Stockholm syndrome.
“So many of the decisions to cleave things out of books which are successful have to do with levels of discomfort,” says Fincher. “Are we going to make the audiences uncomfortable? But there is no way to take out the things from the book that makes the audiences uncomfortable—”
“Because then there’s no book, there’s no story,” Craig interjects.
“It all grows from there,” concludes Fincher.
The charisma of the Salander character is ultimately the reason for the extraordinary success of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels. Worldwide, the novel has sold more than 65 million copies, making it one of the most popular books of all time. (In the U.S. alone, it has sold 18 million copies, and, last month, Vintage Books shipped more than 1.3 million more copies in anticipation of the movie.)
But Salander is no female action hero in a tight leather outfit. She is an outcast who bends the world to her will—in the novel, Blomkvist wonders to himself whether she has Asperger’s.
As a director, Fincher is an assured chronicler of life outside the norm. Consider, for example, one of his first movies, Fight Club, or even his most recent, The Social Network, which both revolve around people who live without regard for convention or social acceptance.
In person, he is engaging and funny, dominating the conversation but nudging Mara to speak up when she goes quiet. Having worked with her on The Social Network, in which she had a brief but memorable appearance as Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend, it was Fincher who insisted on casting the little-known actress.
For the role of Salander, Mara’s eyebrows were bleached, her hair was cut short and asymmetric, while her eyebrow, ears, and nipple were pierced. Curled up in the corner of the couch on this late afternoon in London, Mara seems younger than her 26 years, perhaps because of her deference to Fincher, which she tries in vain to hide.
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| natta | Дата: Пятница, 20 Янв 2012, 22:29 | Сообщение # 62 |
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| Daniel Craig
"More than Just 007"
Written by Rocco Passafuime
In the pantheon of English actors making a big impression in Hollywood, Daniel Craig is undoubtedly on the top of the list. Craig has continually impressed audiences with roles in films like Road to Perdition, The Mother, Layer Cake, Enduring Love, and Munich before scoring the ultimate action role as super-spy James Bond in the films Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace.
Now the 43 year-old hopes to further make his mark on the world of the international thriller with a role as Mikael Blomkvist in the film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
The film is Hollywood’s adaptation of the first book in what became an enormously successful series known as “the Millennium trilogy” written by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson. All three books already had been spawned into successful films in Larsson’s home country in 2009, becoming huge box office hits in Europe. Daniel, however, says he was completely undeterred by living up to expectations from fans of both the books and the original films.
“In this industry, the less you think about what other people are thinking about, the better and more original you can be,” Craig believes, “You can’t go into a project thinking. ‘How will these people like it? How will those people like it?’ You want to be single-minded about it. You can’t please everybody.”
Craig’s character, a magazine owner, uncovering the mystery of a missing and potentially murdered girl. Teaming up with Blomkvist to solve the mystery is the highly unorthodox computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, played by Rooney Mara. One thing that stands out about the film, which involves is the sheer amount of smoking that the characters do. Daniel was direct regarding a reason why there is so much smoking in a film made during an age where smoking has largely been discouraged in Hollywood films.
“People used to,” Craig answers.
Blomkvist often rides with Salander on a motorcycle throughout the course of the story. It was asked if they actually went very fast on it.
“Yes,” Daniel replies.
Daniel was then asked to confirm a remark made by Mara that he wouldn’t get on the back of it.
“That is not true,” Craig says.
Craig talks about his take on the budding relationship between Mikael and Lisbeth throughout the course of the books.
“I think it has a lot to do with honesty and trust,” he says, “I think that is what was so great in the books. They shouldn’t have a relationship and they shouldn’t even meet in life. They come from different social classes and whatever.”
“I think that Salander has never really gotten to trust anyone or there are few people in her life that are straight with her and he is,” Daniel continues, “He comes in and she has broken the law and has hacked into his life. He walks in and says, ‘Forget that. I think you’re great and I would like to work with you and I’ll walk away.’ I think that this appeals to her.”
Daniel talks about working with director David Fincher, whose previous films include the Oscar-winning The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and The Social Network.
“The more preparation you do and have, the better chances you have on the day,” Craig says of Fincher, “Steve Zaillian wrote great words. So it is there to say. All you are doing in rehearsal is trying to tweak it and make more sense of it and to make sure that everything ties up and you know where you are when you get to it because we didn’t shoot one thing in sequence. We shot the end of the movie first and then whatever you always do. Then that day on the set we do a lot of takes and you try to make it better.”
Teaming up with Blomkvist to solve the mystery is the highly unorthodox computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, played by Rooney Mara. It was asked of Craig whether it was true that Fincher had to keep trying to feed Mara on set, despite the fact her character is supposed to be thin and emaciated.
“And me as well,” Daniel replies, “But much more successfully.”
Daniel was asked if the intimate scenes between him and Rooney Mara in the relationship that develops between Mikael and Lisbeth over the course of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo were difficult.
“No, of course not,” Craig replies, “They are not difficult. Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry bizarre things. There are people standing around and I don’t make those kinds of movies. Not for a long time anyway.”
David Fincher is a director well-known for demanding a lot of takes out of his performers. It was asked of Craig if he felt his performances got progressively better with every take.
“No,” Daniel replies, “Sometimes you get worse and worse and then it kind of changes. Someone throws a lot of money at you to get to do something like this. You are there to do it right. Things get frustrating in a work day and there are lots of other things to get frustrated about, but then there are a lot of triumphs at the end of the day. You can’t get down about it.”
One scene in the film involves Daniel’s character in a strange contraption in a basement. It was commented that he looked uncomfortable being in it.
“I took it home,” Craig replies, with a laugh.
Craig, then, offered his own humorous take on the situation.
“Just another day working with David Fincher,” Daniel says, laughing.
Daniel also shared about what it was like to do the film’s action scenes and stunt work in general.
“The most important thing about this character for me was to make him as real and as believable as possible.,” Craig says, “Obviously, there is another person that I play that would deal with it in a asked of Craig whether it was true that Fincher had to keep trying to feed Mara on set, despite the fact her character is supposed to be thin and emaciated.
“And me as well,” Daniel replies, “But much more successfully.”
Daniel was asked if the intimate scenes between him and Rooney Mara in the relationship that develops between Mikael and Lisbeth over the course of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo were difficult.
“No, of course not,” Craig replies, “They are not difficult. Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry bizarre things. There are people standing around and I don’t make those kinds of movies. Not for a long time anyway.”
David Fincher is a director well-known for demanding a lot of takes out of his performers. It was asked of Craig if he felt his performances got progressively better with every take.
“No,” Daniel replies, “Sometimes you get worse and worse and then it kind of changes. Someone throws a lot of money at you to get to do something like this. You are there to do it right. Things get frustrating in a work day and there are lots of other things to get frustrated about, but then there are a lot of triumphs at the end of the day. You can’t get down about it.”
One scene in the film involves Daniel’s character in a strange contraption in a basement. It was commented that he looked uncomfortable being in it.
“I took it home,” Craig replies, with a laugh.
Craig, then, offered his own humorous take on the situation.
“Just another day working with David Fincher,” Daniel says, laughing.
Daniel also shared about what it was like to do the film’s action scenes and stunt work in general.
“The most important thing about this character for me was to make him as real and as believable as possible.,” Craig says, “Obviously, there is another person that I play that would deal with it in a I can say about it. I was very, very pleased.”
Daniel was asked if he would return as Blomkvist to do the Hollywood film adaptation’s for the original novel’s sequels The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest, if the opportunity was to arise.
“I would love to stay on board,” Craig answers.
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| natta | Дата: Среда, 25 Янв 2012, 11:27 | Сообщение # 63 |
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| Vanityfair
Daniel Craig
The king of thrills wrapped up a year that included The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Adventures of Tintin. Next, he’s back in Bond, with Skyfall. Yet some questions have a tough guy spooked ...
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Awake at dawn with nothing to do.
What is your greatest fear?
I don’t want to think about it.
Which living person do you most admire?
Aung San Suu Kyi.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Jealousy.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Travel.
What is your favorite journey?
Home.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
It all depends on how you interpret them.
On what occasion do you lie?
Answering questionnaires.
Which living person do you most despise?
I don’t know if I do.
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
“Fuck off.”
What is your greatest regret?
Agreeing to answer these questions.
When and where were you happiest?
At a free bar.
Which talent would you most like to have?
Opposable toes.
What is your current state of mind?
Ruddy.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My knees.
If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
Oh, they’re just perfect.
If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
Krill.
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
Ink.
What is your most treasured possession?
Apart from my penis and my health?
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Gastric flu on an airplane.
Where would you like to live?
Where I live now.
What is your most marked characteristic?
My third nipple.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
A good mustache.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
A good mustache.
What do you most value in your friends?
Their patience.
Who are your favorite writers?
E. E. Cummings and Kurt Vonnegut.
Who are your heroes in real life?
Those who give up all they have to help others.
What are your favorite names?
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May.
What is it that you most dislike?
Blisters.
How would you like to die?
Quickly.
What is your motto?
“Breathe in … breathe out. Repeat.”
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| kahlan | Дата: Среда, 25 Янв 2012, 13:22 | Сообщение # 64 |
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| natta | Дата: Среда, 25 Янв 2012, 13:56 | Сообщение # 65 |
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| Quote (natta) What is your most treasured possession?
Apart from my penis and my health?
чувак жжет как всегда
kahlan, будем оччень призательны
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| senses | Дата: Четверг, 26 Янв 2012, 20:33 | Сообщение # 66 |
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| natta | Дата: Пятница, 31 Авг 2012, 14:39 | Сообщение # 67 |
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| За перевод спасибо Алисе из группы вКонтакте
Читайте в следующем номере Empire интервью с Дэниэлом Крэйгом!Пока только некоторые цитаты.
"Когда я работаю над фильмом, я полностью целеустремлён. Я выкладываюсь энергетически так интенсивно, как могу, на протяжении всего времени. Я хочу вдохновлять и вдохновляться".
"Мне посчастливилось работать с невероятными людьми с огромным опытом. Я стоял на крыше поезда в Турции вместе с командой, смотрел вокруг и думал: "Ты знаешь, это лучшее место, чтобы быть актёром".
"Сейчас я как будто бы отдал всё, что получил, и теперь на некоторое время перерыв!"
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| natta | Дата: Вторник, 02 Окт 2012, 21:50 | Сообщение # 68 |
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| отрывки интервью ноябрьского Vanity Fair
Sometimes it's tough being Bond, James Bond. No privacy for movie stars these days, actor Daniel Craig laments, and it's worse than ever.
Craig graces the cover of the November Vanity Fair, promoting his third turn as Bond in the forthcoming Skyfall. Inside he talks about how fame gets in the way of a normal life, and how things are worse for movie stars today than 40 years ago when the Bond franchise was taking off.
"The difference is that, back in the day, you could go and have a drink in the bar, get drunk, fall over, have a good time, relax, whatever, and no one would know about it. But now everyone's got a camera," Craig tells VF writer Juli Weiner, echoing a lesson recently learned by famous folk as diverse as GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the Duchess of Cambridge.
"Not that all I want to do is get drunk in a bar, but that's an example," Craig continues. "So you can't live a normal life anymore. Because it will become public knowledge that you've whatever — gotten drunk in a bar or skinny-dipped on a beach or something. Things that normal people do occasionally."
Craig says he always has to be aware, always has to be on his best behavior. "I've done a lot of things in my life. But you have to think in that way. Which is sad, because I like bars."
http://www.usatoday.com/story....1608255
и еще, перевод я не обещаю, ребята.
“You talk to people in the movie business who have been doing this 40 years and they all say the difference is that, back in the day, you could go and have a drink in the bar, get drunk, fall over, have a good time, relax, whatever, and no one would know about it. But now everyone’s got a camera,” Daniel Craig tells Vanity Fair writer Juli Weiner of the challenges of being Bond. “Not that all I want to do is get drunk in a bar, but that’s an example. So you can’t live a normal life anymore. Because it will become public knowledge that you’ve whatever—gotten drunk in a bar or skinny-dipped on a beach or something. Things that normal people do occasionally. And in a way that’s kind of—I’ve got to be high-class. I’ve done a lot of things in my life. But you have to think in that way. Which is sad, because I like bars.”
On the eve of the release of his third turn as Bond in the upcoming Skyfall, Daniel Craig reflects on the iconic character and how the franchise has matured. “What I’m doing is not what Pierce was doing, and Pierce wasn’t doing what Roger Moore was doing, or what Sean was doing, or what Timothy [Dalton] was doing. Things have changed. It’s just kind of the ride of it. Pierce used to say that it’s like being responsible for a small country. It’s kind of like you have to look after it diplomatically. I kind of get that, but I can’t really say that’s my deal. I’m not going to be the poster boy for this. Although I am the poster boy.”
“It’s amazing how many times I’ve sat in interviews like this in a bar or a hotel, and it’s 11 o’clock in the morning and someone sends a martini over,” he says, laughing. “And it’s like, Really? It’s 11 o’clock! Cheers! I’m not going to drink it.”
Of the controversy first kicked up in May over Skyfall’s featuring of Heineken, meanwhile—notably not a martini—Craig says: “Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it’s disgusting, or whatever, it’s what it is. . . . Heineken gave us a ton of money for there to be Heineken in a shot in a bar. So, how easy is that? Just to say, O.K., there’s Heineken. It’s there—it’s in the back of the shot. Without them, the movie couldn’t get sold, so that all got kind of blown up. ‘Bond’s new drink is a Heineken.’ He likes a lot of drinks—Heineken, champagne; it’s all in there.” Craig explains that “I’ll drink a beer in the shot, I’m happy to, but I’m not going to do an ‘Ahhhhh’ [pantomiming an actor looking refreshed]. And I would say this because they’re paying, but they’re kind of respectful about it. They don’t want to screw the movie up.”
Of seeing some of Bond’s softer side in Casino Royale—one scene in particular where he sheds a tear for his deceased girlfriend who betrayed him—Craig charmingly defends the machismo of his character: “He didn’t sob. There was, like, a tear in his eye. No snot coming out of his nose, you know.” This sense of humor is, co-star Judi Dench says, crucial to playing Bond: “The glorious thing about [Craig] is he has a great sense of humor. That’s essential—the whole essence of Bond is that he doesn’t take himself so seriously.”
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| natta | Дата: Суббота, 13 Окт 2012, 14:23 | Сообщение # 69 |
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| James Bond films are a high-octane action ride with plenty of thrills and some chills. And Daniel Craig, the latest to play the unflappable, debonair 007, says he tries to blank his mind so "that the fear doesn't come in" but also gets a kick out of the cuts and bruises.
"There is not a lot of thought process while I am doing these scenes. I try to blank my mind so that the fear doesn't come in. But I enjoy doing it because we work with so many people... Sometimes I get hurt.
"In this movie, I didn't get anything too bad. A few bumps, scrapes, cuts and bruises... I get a kick out of it," Craig told IANS in a group interview conducted through video conference from New York ahead of his latest film "Skyfall" that releases in India Nov 2.
Having grown up watching James Bond movies, Craig made his debut as the suave spy with "Casino Royale" after replacing actor Pierce Brosnan. Prior to this, he had acted in films like "A Kid in King Arthur's Court", "The Hunger", and "I Dreamed of Africa".
But becoming the super spy is an experience that is unexplainable, he said.
"It's one of those things in life which is unexplainable. I made no plan of being James Bond. So my life changed the day I met this lady (producer Barbara Broccoli) here. I thought she was joking, but she wasn't obviously."
In terms of playing the role, Craig, 44, says that he just "tries to make the best Bond, which I can with the help of these talented people".
"When you look at the body of work (James Bond series) from Sean (Connery) onwards, I want to be part of that," he added.
His latest Bond film "Skyfall", directed by Sam Mendes, he says, is an outcome of a lot of talented people coming together.
"This was a chance to begin again, having Sam coming to direct the movie. Barbara and I have had conversations about this; we just wanted to get best people for the job. We got the best writers, DOP (director of photography) and with Sam directing it, the movie has grown and become something else.
"It's not just a wonderful Bond movie, but a great movie to go and watch. It's not just my job to keep the film running, it's my job to be the helmet and stand out in front," he said.
The actor has confirmed that he would be working in two more Bond films, following this one.
" Yes, it is true. We have signed two. I am very realistic about these things. Let's see how this one goes, then we will see about the next two. I will be very excited to release another one. I have had a wonderful time shooting this one, I loved doing it," he said.
Any similarity between him and Bond?
"The character I play is not me, it's somebody else. I am miles away from my character...like on the other side of the universe," he said.
What about the perks of being James Bond off screen?
"There are many perks about having a successful movie career and I am very lucky. We have all worked very hard and once you finish the movie, one of my biggest joys is the escaping. And thankfully, with the success of these movies I have many places to go and escape to. But as I said, I am not James Bond. I don't enjoy the things he enjoys," he said.
James Bond films are one of the highest grossing franchises all over the world and Craig admits it adds to the pressure.
"Yes, I worry. But there is a certain point, which comes when you know you have done the best and it's up to the audience how they feel about it. Of course, I will be disappointed if it doesn't do the business, but I think we have made an amazing film and all we can do is to let it free," he said.
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| natta | Дата: Суббота, 20 Окт 2012, 14:27 | Сообщение # 70 |
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| Daniel Craig interview
The 'Skyfall' actor tells us why Bond is bringing it all back home
Daniel Craig is lolling in an armchair in Claridge’s. He is here to launch ‘Skyfall’, the twenty-third Bond film since the franchise began with ‘Dr No’ in 1962. It is the cinema event of the year and, arguably, his career.
Craig’s first appearance as the legendary secret agent in ‘Casino Royale’ (2006) has just topped Time Out’s poll as the best Bond film. And if his piercing blue eyes are looking a little tired today, the 44-year-old actor from Cheshire has good reason. Between his second Bond film, ‘Quantum of Solace’ (2008) and this, his third, Craig has starred in ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ (2011), ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ (2011), ‘Dream House’ (2011) and ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ (2011).
But above all these there is Bond, the role he has come to define for this generation as indelibly as Sean Connery did for his 50 years ago. The new film sees 007 back in the capital and, unsurprisingly, in a whole lot of trouble… Alexi Duggins meets the man who put the balls back into Bond.
There’s a lot of London in ‘Skyfall’. Is this the movie where 007 comes home?
‘Yeah, there’s an element of Bond coming back to London that you haven’t seen in a Bond movie for a long time. MI6 comes under attack. We get to run down Whitehall in screaming cars. We actually managed to close Parliament Square. For a while it was ours.
It makes me very excited – a unique experience. We used the subterranean London which people don’t get access to: not just the tube stations and the war rooms. It’s rare that you get access to places like Whitehall. Thankfully, Bond opens a few doors. Westminster and London Underground people let us go a bit crazy.’
There’s a terrorist theme; there are explosions in the capital. Given the 7/7 bombings, were you conscious of Londoners’ feelings?
‘We’ve had to be sensitive about things, [but] we can’t shy away from storylines. We’ve not been trying to please any particular group of people. That’s just been part of the storyline. We’ve just done our best to make it as good as it can possibly be, so if it appeals to Londoners or anybody, we’ll take anybody. Although I’m not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it’s played a part in my life. It’s where I’ve lived for all that time.’
How much of a Londoner is Bond?
‘MI6 is here, and if you read the Fleming books, they are all [set] here at some point, with him at a club or being in town, getting his suits made in Savile Row, or doing those sorts of things. So it’s a very important backdrop, a good starting point for him in the storyline. It’s the capital: it’s where the seat of power is, what he’s protecting, it’s where the Queen stays. It’s all of those things. It’s sort of what his job is.’
What kind of place is he at psychologically in this film?
‘A very good place at the start of the movie, it’s just that he ends up getting into hot water, and things happen. Some of them happy, some of them sad. It’s really to do with the interaction of characters – there’s an incredibly rich cast – and where Javier [Bardem], the bad guy, takes us. At certain points of the movie, it’s his movie: he’s driving it and it’s about how Bond is dealing with that.’
So Bond takes a back seat at some points?
‘No. As soon as I said that, I was going to take it back! I’m in every fucking scene so it’s difficult for me to take a back seat. What I meant is having good actors as a huge part of the movie is a great relief.’
It must be hard to keep a long-running franchise like Bond fresh. What was the approach this time?
‘To do the best we could. I know that sounds glib, but that’s the truth. There aren’t many movies like this being made in the world, which have these sorts of resources and which can gather this kind of talent together. So we have to have a great script and a great story.’
What about the details of ‘Skyfall’? Go on, tell us something you’re not supposed to…
‘I just can’t. You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and “behind the scenes”, and now it’s a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret. I think it’s such a sadness. I don’t think people gave a fuck in the past. They were just quite happy for movies to be made and then to go and see it and make up their own minds. I’m sorry to go on about it…’
No, please carry on…
‘I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can’t recreate. It’s seeing it with a bunch of other people that actually makes it a good or bad experience. So in order to get people to go and see it rather than watch it on a DVD, we’re suddenly trying to keep everything secret as a way of going, “Go and see it. Just fucking go and see it.” Anyway, there’s some stuff I could tell you that Sam [Mendes, director] might cut out, and then I’ll look like an idiot.’
What’s your relationship with Sam like?
‘Acting-wise Sam just has it covered. He does that standing on his head, that’s what he does: he’s brilliant with actors. But he has also brought a passion about Bond to it. He’s a fan, a proper fan of Bond, and he really has wanted to create something that he’s proud of, but also that’s going to be remembered as something that’s a classic: classically Bond, and also a good movie.’
What do you think will surprise people about this film?
‘I hope the complexity. It’s a good, dense storyline but it’s adult in many ways. It’s also got a lot of fun in it, and people might be surprised by the fact that there’s a lightness of touch in the movie that hasn’t been in the last two. There’s a lot of humour going on. It’s not that there are funny lines or anything, but there is humour within the script.’
How much humour? Do you finally get it on with Judi Dench’s M?
‘No, you’re off the mark there! We had a scene in “Casino Royale” where she was supposed to get out of bed and there’s a man in the bed with her. It was like, “Well, who’s it going to be?” – and I think Brad Pitt was in town – “Call Brad Pitt up and get him to lie in bed. I’m sure he’d do it, wouldn’t he?” Would you lie next to her? I would. I mean, I’m almost as in demand as Brad Pitt.’
How do you keep Bond fans happy when you’re not being 007 on screen? Do you feel a pressure to maintain a certain public image?
‘Well, obviously not, as I was on the cover of Time Out smoking [in 2011, for ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’], so I fucked that up. I suppose that’s not a particularly responsible thing to do, is it? But anyway… I leap out of burning buildings, I leap out of cars when I shouldn’t do, in movies, so that’s not particularly responsible either.’
How are you feeling at the end of all that now?
‘You know, what happens with a Bond film is that I keep an energy level up throughout the whole of filming and then as soon as it finishes I just relax and I drop. It’s a very natural thing to do. We all go through that process. You’ll find most of the crew sitting around staring at brick walls, because it’s been full-on, all day, every day. I’m fucked. Well, I’m not fucked. I’m actually great.’
http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/3195/daniel-craig-interview
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| Elvenstar | Дата: Четверг, 08 Ноя 2012, 10:58 | Сообщение # 71 |
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| Daniel Craig Talks Bond's Homosexual Past, Charms Our Pants Off
When Daniel Craig confidently strides into the hotel room at the Mandarin Oriental Miami to meet with us, he is wearing a perfectly tailored suit with a pocket square, not unlike how James Bond dresses in Skyfall, the latest installment opening Friday.
He adjusts his watchband in a way that hints it may have slipped out of place while snapping the neck of a would-be assassin out in the hallway. The watch is an Omega, the same kind James Bond wears, and though there's probably some sort of contractual obligation here, the watch looks just right on Daniel Craig. Everything about him looks right. His eyes are bluer than they are on film and when he takes a seat across the table from us, there seems something so cool about sitting that we silently vow to never stand again.
Consider what it is about Daniel Craig that is so incredibly charming. For starters, it's his craft. It's clear that he does the Bond films not for a paycheck but because he's keenly interested in making high quality and unique entertainment. That's why he brought director Sam Mendes on board.
"I saw him at a party and offered him the job," he says, "which wasn't my place to do. One too many drinks. If it hadn't worked out, I could have always blamed the booze."
But Craig has a natural instinct for Bond; it's charm factor number two. He's credited for bringing a depth to the character that, he says, has been in the material all along.
"You read the books," he says, no doubt imaging the two of us reading Ian Fleming's novels in matching armchairs beside a fireplace, "and they were written a long time ago so I suppose they're dated. But they still stand up as good reads. Fleming really does explore the character. There's a lot of self-doubt there, and he kills people for a living, so it bothers him."
When someone else in the room -- an intruder on our private moment -- points out that Roger Moore recently called Craig the best James Bond of them all, Craig is chuffed. He laughed, "We love Roger!" And we found ourselves loving Roger, too.
"It's very nice," Craig said, very nicely. "He's a lovely, lovely man, Roger. He was the first James Bond I ever saw in the cinema, so I have a real affinity to him and a real soft spot for Roger. And he's also a gentleman but, you know, I pay him well."
Which brings up of the most interesting scenes in the film, when a tied up Bond faces off with Javier Bardem's flamboyant villain. As they try to shock and disorient each other, James Bond implies that somewhere in his past, he had a homosexual encounter. This had to be during the Roger Moore years, right?
"The scene you're talking about," Craig replied, handsomely and with a certain wistfulness as he locked eyes with us, "I think you'll find that they're just playing. They're fucking with each other. And to call Javier Bardem's character gay or anything would be shortsighted because I think he's a megalomaniac and all that goes along with that."
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But when was the last time he was by himself, walking past a full-length mirror and turned to it, going pe-chew! pe-chew! with a finger gun?
"I've never done that."
Not even when he first got the role?
"No, no. I've never done that. I do it with my friends sometimes, exactly as you just did." Even though he only said "you," it was magical to hear him say our name like that.
As our time with Daniel Craig winds down, he says something that almost sounds like he wants to take a trip with us somewhere. He's talking about how after weeks of shooting indoor talking scenes, "Sometimes it's a nice break to go outside and jump on top of a train. It's actually quite refreshing and you feel better for it."
But before we can get the Metrorail app up on our phone to show him the schedule, his publicist is escorting him out of the room. All we're left with is the doodle he made on the pad in front of him, and the promise of those blue eyes shining in the dark of the matinee.
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist....lly.php
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| Злодей_Злодеич | Дата: Воскресенье, 25 Ноя 2012, 16:22 | Сообщение # 72 |
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| Daniel Craig is not James Bond – for one thing, Craig is getting older
The blockbuster hit “Skyfall” is actor Daniel Craig’s third – and critics say his best – turn as Agent 007. Just two weeks into its release, the latest installment in the James Bond franchise had already amassed nearly $700 million in box office receipts and was still going strong.
In addition to bringing back Craig as the iconic spy, “Skyfall” also features such regulars as Dame Judi Dench and introduces an evil and amusing new villain, played by Javier Bardem. In one widely talked about scene, Bardem’s character caresses a tied-up Bond in a homoerotic way.
The Interview Feed spoke with Craig in New York shortly before the film’s early November release. Wearing a light gray cashmere sweater over a white shirt and dark gray tie, teamed with a pair of dark trousers, Craig, 44, is ruggedly handsome and obviously incredibly fit.
Married to actress Rachel Weisz since June 2011, Craig has homes in New York City as well as London. Like Weisz, he’s tight-lipped about his personal life and doesn’t discuss his daughter from a previous marriage, nor her son Henry, whom she is co-parenting with her ex fiancée Darren Aronofsky.
When was the first time that you ever heard about James Bond?
I don’t remember. I think I’ve always known about (him), it feels like that anyway. I remember seeing him at the cinema from when I was six years old – five years old even.
How was it starting out as an actor?
I’ve been acting for as long as I can remember now. It’s very difficult, you struggle a little bit, you work rarely and you try and pay the rent and try and make a living and that’s all you kind of can do. And eventually I did start making a living, so it worked.
But it took some time.
Kind of. I left drama class and went straight and did a Warner Brothers movie and then I did some television in England and did some theatre. I’ve always worked, so I’ve always managed to keep the bank manager at bay.
Have you ever met any of the other Bonds?
I know Roger and I know Pierce. I have never met any of the others.
Could there be a tine that we could get then all together in the same place?
I don’t know why.
Well, to celebrate the 50th Anniversary.
It would be a bit embarrassing.
Why?
I think it would be very awkward and embarrassing. I don’t think it’s going to happen, we are all very separate people, and different people. I don’t think we have any desire to be in each other’s company more (than) to sort of say, “Hello.” But to have it paraded out in front of people, I think would just be slightly embarrassing and awkward.
What about a private poker game?
No, I’m not James Bond. (Laughs.) That guy is somebody else. I’m not him.
Ask.com just selected James Bond as the most influential man, over Obama and real people. What do you make of that?
Well, I hope not. I hope Obama becomes a little more influential. (Laughs.) Maybe that’s because the movie is coming out, so I’m everywhere.
So what is it that you like the most about James Bonds’ lifestyle?
I’m not James Bond. The thing is, I am really, genuinely not him, so therefore, I don’t need any of his lifestyle. I have mine. Really, I mean it’s not something I aspire to be.
There’s nothing?
No. I love cars, I love the things that everybody else likes, but I don’t want to be James Bond.
James Bond is a really old-fashioned guy. He never touches the Internet or iPad. Do you think that’s an attractive aspect to young audiences?
I don’t know. We will find out, won’t we? I don’t think it’s that he won’t touch them, I just think that he still sort of believes in an idea that he’s a front-line troop, and the idea that you kind of fight a battle on a computer is anathema to him. But that’s why I love the character of Q, because Q is sort of a geek and a computer whiz, and the two of them coming together, there’s a contrast there. I like the fact that the two of them could be a partnership, because I don’t think he wants to know too much about that, he wants to talk to people and look them in the eye and ask them the question and I like that. I think there’s still room for that. Maybe not.
This Bond was different because it’s looking back at his roots and how he grew up. Was that the attraction?
I think in a way. I mean, it wasn’t really a conscious decision, but because it’s 50 years, it really ties in nicely to it. And what I love is also that we go back and he destroys it. So that we kind of move it out of the way and we deal with it. And he was orphaned very young so that the love of his parents is something in the past and he’s moved on and the idea that he is kind of, he is satisfied with his life.
Apparently it was your idea to get Javier Bardem?
I am one of Javier’s biggest fans. I’m a bit of a stalker in fact, because I actually did stalk him to get this part, because I went to a party where he was so I could ask him to do it. And he said, “yes,” so it was great. So I love working with him. And he makes me laugh, so it’s a joy.
Did you learn any Spanish from Javier?
No, the sad thing is I didn’t spend enough tine with him, because we were literally working. We both love rugby and I would love to go and watch some rugby with him, eventually, but, yeah, my Spanish is pretty bad.
Do you know any curse words at least?
Yeah, I think so, but I’m not going to practice them here.
So why do you think women like James Bond so much?
He’s dangerous. It’s as simple as that.
I think one of the themes of this movie is getting older. How long can you play James Bond?
I don’t know. I don’t think about it. I mean, I am contracted to do another two movies, so I am not holding my breath, I will see how this one goes, and then we will see after that.
Are you afraid of aging?
No. I mean, like everybody else, you kind of go, “Hmm,” and then it’s like, “What do you do?” You’ve just got to get over it. You’ve got to kind of enjoy life while you are living it.
The Bond here seems less polished than in “Casino Royale,” the good-looking guy who gets the girl. There’s a bit more roughness about it. Is that something that you were looking into?
It’s just me.
Getting older you mean?
I’m six years older. It’s just the way it is. There’s nothing I can do about it. It’s just, that’s me. I certainly didn’t think about “Casino Royale” while shooting this movie at all.
Is it getting more difficult for you to do the stunts?
No, it’s getting easier because I’m doing less. Yeah, the stunts are just an incredible part of the movie, and I am kind of involved with them, obviously, as much as I possibly can be. It’s more to do with geography than it is anything else, if I’m not doing the stunt. And then, of course, the very dangerous ones I am not doing, but the way things are now, it’s so much easier and I’ve got so many good doubles. Robbie, who did all the bike stuff, who is world renowned, we just got to make it good and as real as possible.
With all the physical stuff and this being the third Bond, have you found any skills that you are able to apply in real life?
Nothing. (Laughs.) It’s all make believe, and there it stays. That’s true. I mean, it’s just not anything to do with real life. The skills that I am learning, you don’t see on camera. They are to do with working with people and how you interact with people and how are you going to get a job done. It’s nothing to do with me jumping out of an aircraft. I mean, people spend a lifetime doing those things and getting good at them.
How do you deal with the massive fan base of Bond and the accompanying expectations?
I mean, look, the movies wouldn’t get made unless people liked them, so the most important people in the process are the people who go and see it, and we make the movies for those people. But you can’t think about the expectations, you just have to get on with doing as good a job as you can.
Even though you said that you’re doing fewer stunts, obviously you were still working out a lot and there’s a lot of training involved. Was that more or less true on this one?
I think it was about the same. It was probably a little bit more different. I had to do a lot of running in this one, so I just ran a little bit more.
Do you enjoy that kind of thing?
No. It’s like really fucking boring.
So what do you think about when you are doing all those boring hours of running?
The weird thing is actually you can switch off. So I suppose I can get away to doing something mindless so I can get away from what I am doing and actually kind of relax a bit, so that it’s actually … it’s not unpleasant, but it is boring.
Were you at the gym every day?
No, it’s kind of impossible every day. I mean, I’d just wear myself out. The analogy I kind of use is like, even if you have ever played soccer, just for fun, I play a game of soccer every day and I get injured every day. I mean, not every day but every other day. And there’ s no recovery time, because I have to play another game tomorrow. So what I have to do is I have to train, to keep my level of fitness high enough, and if I do get injured, I can carry on. It’s kind of a weird place to be, because there’s no blueprint for how you stay fit. You kind of get physically down and you have to pick yourself up, cause it’s a six-day week for six months and there’s no really downtime, so you have to learn to pace yourself and you eat properly. Like I said, it was very boring.
Like Bond, you are also very stylish. Do you enjoy fashion?
I like beautiful clothes. One of the perks of this gig is that I get sent nice clothes, but I’ve always liked tailoring. My grandfather was a tailor, so that’s always run in the family. I like nicely designed men’s clothes.
Watching you on “SNL,” I wondered why you haven’t done more comedy? Is that something that you would like to do more of?
Not especially, no. There are comedians who make films today and they have a process and most of it is to do with improvisation. There isn’t a script. I don’t know how to work like that. There’s very few writers out there who write great comedy, and if there is, they get snapped up very quickly. I need a funny script. I can’t just yuck it up and make it up. It’s not where I come from.
In what ways are you different from James Bond?
Every way. I hear that man has nothing to do with me at all.
This Bond wasn’t just about huge set piece but great dialogue and story.
I just think you can combine the two, I think you can have everything. Why not?
http://www.wisconsingazette.com/film....er.html
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| natta | Дата: Воскресенье, 25 Ноя 2012, 19:51 | Сообщение # 73 |
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| natta | Дата: Четверг, 21 Фев 2013, 22:06 | Сообщение # 74 |
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| http://metro.co.uk/2013....3506394
The Skyfall star talks about dealing with fans’ expectations, keeping in shape for 007 and why he’s not cut out for comedy
How do you deal with the huge expectations around a new Bond film?
The movies wouldn’t get made unless people liked them. The most important people in the process are the people that go and see it. But you can’t think about the expectation; you just have to get on with doing as good a job as you can. You can’t be thinking: ‘I hope people like this; I hope people like me.’ You just gotta say: ‘You know, I’m standing in a room with Sam Mendes, Ralph Fiennes, Roger Deakins, Chris Corbould and it’s amazing.’
What was your training regime for Skyfall?
Much the same as before… going to the gym. I have to train to keep my level of fitness high enough in case I do get injured. I work six-day weeks for six months and there’s no real down-time, so you have to learn to pace yourself. And eat properly.
You’re also very stylish. Do you enjoy fashion?
I don’t know if I enjoy fashion but I like beautiful clothes. One of the perks of this gig is I get nice clothes. I’ve always liked tailoring; my grandfather was a tailor, so I suppose it runs in the family.
Did you enjoy the dark sense of humour in this film?
When I started this, I always wanted to wipe the slate clean and be able to get back to the humour and the darkness. The humour always came out of dark situations in Bond. And this time, having John Logan on board writing wonderful dialogue, it helped us find the lightness.
Would you like to do comedy roles?
Not especially, no. The thing is, comedy’s really difficult. There are comedians who make films today and they have a process: most of it is doing improvisation. There isn’t a script; they come along and they have an idea and they make it. And I don’t know how to work like that. There are very few writers out there who write great comedy and when there is one, they get snapped up very quickly. And I need a funny script, I can’t just yuk it up.
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| natta | Дата: Суббота, 06 Дек 2014, 12:04 | Сообщение # 75 |
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| Meanwhile, Bond himself Daniel Craig has spoken (via Sky News) about the film’s tone and script, suggesting it’ll be a mix of old and new.
I am very, very keen that you can’t make films in a reactionary way. You can’t do it. There has been a lot of talk, from the beginning from ‘Casino’ into ‘Quantum’ because everyone has gone, ‘Where’s the ‘Bondness’? Where’s all the old stuff?’
I was given this chance by Barbara and Michael, which is the first of the books, and the conceit is we began again, but I couldn’t come in and pretend to be James Bond, because everyone knows Bond as Pierce or Roger or Timothy or Sean. I couldn’t come in and go, “Hmm, Martini,” or whatever. It’s not who I am, and how I kind of approach things.
The truth of it is that I always had this plan in my head is that we got to make them and begin them again and bring all that back in, but it had to happen the way it did. I can’t see it happening any other way. We had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers f–ked us – I am a huge Mike Myers fan, so don’t get me wrong – but he kind of f–ked us; made it impossible to do the gags.
What I am proudest of in Skyfall is the lightness of touch we’ve been able to bring to back into it but not lose the drama and the action. Who knows? I think we set a good tone, I think we set a real tone, but I am happy for f–king exploding volcano lairs.
Obviously I am joking but what I love and what I really wanted to achieve with Skyfall was a level of fantasy, it’s one of the less violent ones, there’s less blood, and people aren’t dying in a horrible way, and it feels like much more of a family movie, and they should be family movies.
I don’t want to go ludicrous and we’ve got to keep them in reality, but Christ almighty, the world’s f–king weird and there’s plenty we can start mining and taking out. If Blofeld turned up again, it wouldn’t be a bad thing
http://moviehole.net/201483253christensen-craig-talk-spectre
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