Daniel Craig graces the cover of the latest Esquire magazine and in the featured interview, which is meant to primarily promote his upcoming Cowboys and Aliens film, he dished a bit on his time working for David Fincher on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in which he plays Mikael Blomkvist opposite Rooney Mara as the titular “Girl”.
He basically says everything you want to hear. Stuff that will likely have you anticipating it just as much as I am as we make way toward its December 21 release date.
Here’s the snippet:
“It’s as adult as you can possibly make it. This is adult drama. I grew up, as we fucking all did, watching The Godfather and that, movies that were made for adults. And this is a $100 million R-rated movie. Nobody makes those anymore. And Fincher, he’s not holding back. They’ve given him free rein. He showed me some scenes recently, and my hand was over my mouth, going, Are you fucking serious?”
He raises his eyes, looks upward to describe what he saw in a set of Fincher’s dailies that startled him this way. You can imagine — the book contains sodomy and torture chambers and lighting people on fire. And yet, “it’s not that he simply showed me footage that was horribly graphic,” Craig says. “It was stuff that was happening, or had happened. And somehow you don’t see it.”
What’s that mean?
This is the adult thing: to not be obvious about it. “There’s more than one way to sense violence,” he says. “Much more powerful ways than seeing it step-by-step.”
You can read the complete interview here and for more on any of Daniel Craig’s four upcoming films this year just click on the titles below:
- Cowboys and Aliens (July 29)
- Dream House (September 30)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (December 21)
- The Adventures of Tintin (December 23)
Oh, and he’ll also be in James Bond 23 next year, directed by Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition)… Just so you know.
