Daniel Craig, star of the upcoming Cowboys & Aliens (surely you’ve heard of it – okay I won’t call you Shirley) as well as David Fincher’s remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Jim Sheridan’s Dream House AND Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of TinTin, is on the cover of this month’s Esquire Magazine. He talks about all of those films as well as ‘being Bond’, parenting and all sorts of other fun stuff. It’s a great read. Craig comes across just as I imagined he would: taciturn, as if he finds the whole interview process unacceptably intrusive, however he knows it’s part of the job. He also comes across as fiercely intelligent, which I looooove. Smarts is very sexy.

I also love what he had to say about making “adult” movies, particularly The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:

“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?”

Anyone who knows me, knows how I feel about “adult” (small ‘a’ -not porn) movies, so if those eyes didn’t already have me, this would have.

The full article appears in the August 2011 issue of Esquire.

In other news used only to justify this post, Dutch film site Animatie has released this new still from The Adventures of TinTin.

Daniel Craig is not in it. He is however in the movie and had this to say about the wearing of the motion capture suit:

“We shot it in mo-cap. Which is like: Fuck me, I’m literally in a leotard with a fucking helmet on, and a camera strapped to it. It’s Steven Spielberg, so every fucker in the world comes to visit. Fincher comes to visit. Clint fucking Eastwood comes to visit. It was just like, are you kidding me? I’m gonna meet these people dressed like this? Playing a pirate, wearing a leotard and a camera? Really?”

Ya know, I’d probably give up a limb to have seen that.

Cowboys & Aliens, July 29, 2011; Dream House September 30, 2011;  The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo December 21, 2011; The Adventures of TinTin: The Secret of the Unicorn October 26 in the UK and December 23 in the US.