Licensed to camp it! Daniel Craig is 007 like you’ve never seen him…wearing a silver chain and leather for a vodka ad shoot in Paris
By Padraic Flanagan for The Mail On Sunday
Published: 22:06, 30 July 2022 | Updated: 22:24, July 30, 2022
The chiseled jaw and gym-honed physique are familiar from his 007 days, but Daniel Craig’s latest look suggests he’s been given a license to thrill a whole new audience.
Wearing make-up and dressed in a black leather Brando biker jacket, a low-neck T-shirt and a silver chain, the 54-year-old star’s camp outfit for his latest role would no doubt have raised an eyebrow with the old chauvinist James Bond.
Craig was spotted in Paris filming an advert for Belvedere vodka, the drinks brand which had previously signed a multi-million pound deal with the Bond producers to put the martini – shaken, not stirred – back on 007’s menu .
Craig was spotted in Paris filming an advert for Belvedere vodka, the drinks brand which had previously signed a multi-million pound deal with the Bond producers.
Sharp-eyed viewers wondered if Craig had taken his fashion inspiration from his No Time To Die nemesis Rami Malek when he played a leather-clad Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.
Sharp-eyed viewers wondered if Craig had taken his fashion inspiration from his No Time To Die nemesis Rami Malek when he played a leather-clad Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.
Singer Rita Ora, whose fiance Taika Waititi, New Zealand’s Oscar-winning director, oversaw the production of the ad, was seen filming on the French capital’s famous Pont Neuf and nearby hotel in Cheval Blanc luxury.
The jet-setting couple, who were joined on set by their daughters Matewa Kiritapu and Te Hinekahu, plan to tie the knot when their work commitments allow.
Singer Rita Ora, whose fiance New Zealand Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi oversaw production of the ad, watched the shoot on the French capital’s famous Pont Neuf and nearby hotel in Cheval Blanc luxury.
As filming continued into Friday evening, Craig, who is married to actress Rachel Weisz, had a wardrobe change to film new scenes and stepped out in a dazzling white suit and pale pink shirt.
As filming continued into Friday evening, Craig, who is married to actress Rachel Weisz, had a wardrobe change to film new scenes and stepped out in a dazzling white suit and pale pink shirt, another unfashionable for Ian Fleming’s famous agent. The 007 author kept a notebook containing a series of rules on “how to live”, which included the warning: “Don’t waste your time with women who wear a bracelet on their left ankle.” Her thoughts on men in tight shirts didn’t register.
However, Craig is known to enjoy challenging male stereotypes. She hit the headlines last year by saying she often goes to gay bars to avoid “aggressive” men, after growing tired of getting into fights in straight venues.
“I’ve been going to gay bars for as long as I can remember,” he said on the Lunch With Bruce podcast, “because I don’t get into fights that often in gay bars.”
“You didn’t really have to state your sexuality. It was fine. And it was a very safe place to be. I could meet girls there, because there are a lot of girls there for exactly the same reason I was there. It was kind of an ulterior motive .