No Time to Die is in theaters and everyone is simply eating up the delicious Daniel Craig in his final James Bond film. He has obviously been making nonstop headlines, so you may have missed that news broke yesterday about Daniel Craig's love of gay nightlife.
Yes, you read that right! He goes to gay bars.
Daniel Craig said that he loves queer nightlife and that it has played a major part in his life and that he's been going to gay bars for as long as I can remember. Why is that - besides that he obviously gets a lot of attention and tons of free drinks are bought for him by adoring men getting lost in his baby blue eyes? Apparently, he says it is because he just wants to have fun and he finds hetero bars to be aggressive.
He revealed all of this in a podcast called Lunch with Bruce, hosted by actor Bruce Bozzi. “One of the reasons (is) because I don’t get into fights in gay bars that often. ... The aggressive dick swinging in hetero bars, I just got very sick of it as a kid because it’s like I don’t want to end up being in a punch-up. And I did. That would happen quite a lot.”
It makes total sense to me that Daniel Craig frequents gay bars because - TO BE HONEST - his portrayal of James Bond feels a little bit queer. He's a dapper man who loves the finer things in life? He goes to beaches all over the world? He loves nice clothes? It almost makes you think that his version of Bond has been queer-coded this entire time!
Craig insists that he has met straight girls in gay bars, too, because they come to queer clubs for the same reason. Look, whoever he wants to go home with after a night of cocktails and dancing is totally cool with me. Of course, I prefer that he goes home with ME, but I'll excuse him because he just hasn't met me yet. He must not be going to the right clubs!
I think gay actors should play gay roles, but Daniel Craig's clear allyship and love of queer culture has me thinking we could give him a pass if he wanted to tackle a gay sex scene in a movie. It definitely sounds like he's done his research!
