James Bond actor Daniel Craig admits that he has a hard time trying to maintain his image because he feels he can’t do whatever he wants without having his photo taken and this makes him self-conscious about his actions. He says he no longer drinks while out in public because if photos of him drunk surfaced, he’d feel bad for not maintaining his usual class which he tries to keep in tact. He also says the media are now everywhere and he feels he must control all of his wild desires (skinny dipping included!):
”You talk to people in the movie business who have been doing this 40 years and they all say the difference is that, back in the day, you could go and have a drink in the bar, get drunk, fall over, have a good time, relax, whatever, and no one would know about it. But now everyone’s got a camera. Not that all I want to do is get drunk in a bar, but that’s an example. So you can’t live a normal life anymore. Because it will become public knowledge that you’ve gotten drunk in a bar or skinny-dipped on a beach or something.”
Daniel says he has to be “high class” and even though he likes to drink in bars, he knows his job means he can’t touch alcohol while out and about, even if he’s offered a free drink while relaxing at a bar, he just won’t touch it to be certain (oh Daniel, just drink it, please?):
”I’ve got to be high class. I’ve done a lot of things in my life. But you have to think in that way. Which is sad, because I like bars. It’s amazing how many times I’ve sat in interviews like this in a bar or a hotel, and it’s 11 o’clock in the morning and someone sends a martini over. And it’s like, ‘Really? It’s 11 o’clock! Cheers! I’m not going to drink it’.”
