There’s much more to this James Bond actor than meets the golden eye.
Daniel Craig, currently starring in his fifth and final James Bond film “No Time to Die,” revealed that he likes to go to gay bars.
“I’ve been going to gay bars for as long as I can remember,” the English heartthrob told Bruce Bozzi on the latest episode of the “Lunch with Bruce” SiriusXM podcast. “One of the reasons, because I don’t get into fights in gay bars that often… because the aggressive d— swinging in hetero bars, I just got very sick of [it].”
He furthered: “As a kid because it was like … I don’t want to end up eating in a punch up. And I did. That would happen quite a lot. And it would just be a good place to go. Everybody was chill, everybody. You didn’t really have to sort of state your sexuality. It was okay. And it was a very safe place to be. And I could meet girls there, cause there are a lot of girls there for exactly the same reason I was there. It was kind of … an ulterior motive.”
In 2010, the “Casino Royale” star had tongues wagging when national supermarket tabloids reported that he was caught kissing a man during a visit to a gay bar in Venice, California.
Turns out the man was Bozzi – an esteemed restaurateur with major connections to Hollywood heavyweights. In 2016, the New York City-born chief of The Palm restaurant empire married Bryan Lourd, who’s the director and co-chairman of the Creative Artist Agency (CAA) and former lover of “Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher.
“…We had a good time the band was playing,” Bozzi recalled about the fateful night at the Roosterfish bar. “And then somebody else asked me if I was your manager and I yelled at him because I was like, ‘what do you mean his manager?'”
Craig added: “For me, it was one of those situations and, and, and the irony is, you know, we kind of got caught, I suppose, which was kind of weird cause we were doing nothing f—ing wrong.”
“What happened is we were having a nice night and I kind of were talking to you about my life when my life was changing and we got drunk and I was like, ‘oh, let’s just go to a bar, come on, let’s f—ing go out,'” the 007 star furthered. “And I just was like, I know don’t give a f— and we’re in Venice.”
The 53-year-old actor, whose been married to actress Rachel Weisz since 2011, said the California “spirit” is one of the main reasons why he wanted to move to the United States from his native England.
“[It] is like, f– it, everything’s fine. Don’t worry about it. We got your back, right. Everybody’s in, there’s something magical about it. And that was there that night,” he shared.
