In de huid kruipen van James Bond is voor vele acteurs een droom. Voor Daniel Craig werd deze droom werkelijkheid toen hij werd gevraagd voor de rol van 007. Tot op de dag van vandaag is hij nu al uitgegroeid tot publiekslieveling. Hij is getrouwd met actrice Rachel Weisz en samen hebben ze een dochter uit een eerdere relatie van Craig.

Esquire kreeg de kans om de nu al iconische acteur te interviewen. Uiteraard wordt er gesproken over de nieuwe Spectre, zijn eerdere succes met Skyfall én het leven na het spelen van Bond.

Unless there’s something he hasn’t been telling us, Daniel Craig is an actor, not a spy. He is married, to another actor, Rachel Weisz, and he has a grown-up daughter from an earlier relationship. He is 47 years old. He lives quietly, and as privately as you can when you are an A-list movie star and so is your wife. He is often to be found with his head in a book. He likes a few beers now and then. He looks good in a suit but is more often to be found wearing jeans and a T-shirt. He does not carry a gun. If he did, he’d have to put on his glasses to fire it accurately.

“I’m not James Bond,” he says, not for the first time. “I’m not particularly brave, I’m not particularly cool-headed. I have the fantasy that I would be good in a certain type of situation, like all of us, and I put those hopes into [playing] him.” But Craig also likes to think that his own non-Bondness adds something to his interpretation of 007. “There are bits when he doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing, and I like that.”

Lees het hele interview op de website van Esquire.

Tags: James Bond, Spectre