Daniel Craig on quick crosswords and Cowboys & Aliens, taste and Twitter

30.07.11 - steam iron stand

One thing he doesn’t – has tried never to – talk about is his private life, and his recent and very low-key marriage to actress and old friend Rachel Weisz . The pair star together in the forthcoming thriller Dream House , and it was reported that they tied the knot in New York state in June before a quartet of witnesses, including Craig’s teenage daughter Ella (from his first marriage, to actress Fiona Loudon) and Weisz’s five-year-old son. A terse confirmation from Craig’s publicist has been the sum total of subsequent elaboration, and Craig’s not about to add to that today.

In the past, any line of questioning encroaching on the personal, from former squeezes (Kate Moss, Sienna Miller) to where he lives (London, but mostly out of a suitcase) has led to grumpy stand-offs and bolstered a “difficult” reputation. He’s also been known to evince a chippy defensiveness that peaked when he was cast as Bond, in the face of a vitriolic internet campaign that pegged him as too blond, too short (5ft 11in), and too old (he’s now 43) to be worthy of assuming the mantle. Two films and $1.1  billion in box-office receipts later, he’s been more than vindicated.

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