This particular silly rumor thus helped to crystallize the quite complex layering process that had surrounded Craig ever since he had been announced for the role, and it testified as well to the seemingly impossible feat that Craig and the behind-camera collaborators had pulled off: to re-sexualize the figure of Bond, to make Bond himself a sexual object. As not once in the rumor mill’s daisy chain was it ever suggested that Craig himself was homo- or bisexual-and as his bent performances in Love Is the Devil (1998) and Infamous (2006) rarely entered the picture-the story was clearly founded primarily upon Craig’s screen persona as Bond. Despite the evident absurdity, there was something peculiarly appropriate in its fabricated scenario.

Although the item was quickly squelched, as much by common sense as by Craig’s adamant publicist, its overtones nonetheless remain telling.

Andrew Tracy on Casino Royale and the new James Bondįollowing the success of Casino Royale, an apocryphal story sprang up that Daniel Craig had requested the inclusion of a gay love scene in the next Bond outing, complete with full frontal nudity.

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