In the image, Daniel Craig is seen in stubble and holding a gun in his hands. Looking at his serious face, we assume his enemies are in for a bad time. Anyhow, speaking about the cast, apart from Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Albert Finney and Judi Dench, you’ll see Javier Bardem as the film’s villain.

Sure you are scrolling down to know the names of the Bond girls; well, they are: Naomie Harris and Berenice Marlohe. Meanwhile, let us give you some info about the plot of the film. The film’s brief synopsis reads: “Bond's loyalty to M (Judy Dench) is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.”Skyfall is the 23rd Bond film, and ,needless to say, it is the longest-running franchise ever! The movie will release in India on November 2nd this year.

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Celebrities work more harder to maintain their shape. Male celebrities have to workout regularly to keep those built biceps, triceps and six packs in position. Daniel Craig is one of the most fittest Hollywood male celebs with the perfect Bond physique! Men want to get a physique like him. To make your workout easy, here is the workout routine of Daniel Craig.

Daniel Craig followed circuit training to get the Bond look for Casino Royale. In circuit training, you go from one exercise to another without taking breaks. In a 60 minutes workout, the break can be of 8-10 minutes maximum.

Cardio exercises should be done twice or thrice in a week. Stress more on heavy weight exercises.
Traditional squats are effective in building physique. Point your toes and bend on 90 degrees. Hold for few seconds and then repeat again. It is best to hold dumbbells in each hand and squat down.

Clean and jerk, one weightlifting exercise was followed by Daniel Craig. To get the Bond shape, do clean and jerk exercise. Take a barbell and lift it slowly near the waist. Now bend the knees and bring it close to your chest. Slowly take it overhead. Clean and jerk exercises works on the upper body; shoulder, chest and abdominal muscles.

Bench press is another body building exercises to get six pack abs. Lie on the bench and raise the dumbbells from above your chest until your arms are straight.

Daniel Craig's exercise plan also had pull ups. Also known as chin up, in this exercises, you hold onto a bar and pull your body weight upwards.

Push ups is a common exercises done by men to get six pack abs. In push ups, lie horizontally on the floor, and use your arms two push your body up and down.

These are few exercises from Daniel Craig's workout plan. You can get the Bond shape by following these exercises. Have protein rich foods, drink plenty of water and avoid fattening foods.

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NOW there has been fair few baby announcements in 2012 and it looks like there could be another on the way! It has been reported that James Bond hunk Daniel Craig and wife Rachel Weisz want to have a baby!

The couple - who married eight months ago - are said to be looking for the 'perfect' home in New York. “They stipulated an apartment with enough bedrooms for their children, plus a nursery and a suite for a nanny,” a source told Sunday Express columnist Adam Helliker.

It is alleged the pair have found a £8million penthouse in the Soho district of Manhattan which has a massive garden for kids to play in. Rachel Weisz has a has a five-year-old son with Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, while Daniel has a daughter from a former marriage.

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Daniel Craig has joked the long nights in Sweden are the reason behind the many Scandinavian crime novels. The actor is currently promoting his new movie The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which is adapted from Stieg Larsson’s successful book series.

Daniel’s experience of the early Swedish sunset made him realize that it leaves plenty of time for creating gripping stories. "After many months in Sweden I can imagine why. The sun there sets at 2.30pm - what else is there to do but telling stories” he told website Nachrichten.at.

"I never would have thought that they are going to make movies [of the books]. [After reading the books] I thought to myself: They would never dare!”The James Bond star sees journalists in a different light after playing one in his new movie. The 43-year-old was previously quoted as comparing interviews with a visit to the dentist.

“That was a joke. I don't have a problem with journalists. I even admire some of them!” he insisted. “Just think about how journalists in dictatorships fight like heroes for democratic values and even risk their lives - these people are the true heroes of our time to me.”

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Daniel Craig says shooting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was like being on a “nice carousel”. The actor portrays Mikael Blomkvist in the movie, which is based on a novel by Stieg Larsson. It has already been made into a Swedish picture, and Daniel loves the fact that there are so many interpretations of it.

“I didn't watch the other movie as I didn’t want to be influenced. Besides in the end everybody benefits from this. People who saw the other movie and know the books now watch this movie. Maybe they are going to read the books again afterwards and watch the Swedish movies again. That's a very nice carousel we're sitting on here,” he told wz-newsline.de.

There has been so much written about Stieg’s Millennium series of books that many thought Daniel was brave for taking on such an iconic character. He didn’t look at it that way, explaining he relished the chance to put his own stamp on the part.

“To be honest: no. I can't allow that to happen because I couldn't do my job otherwise,” he replied, when asked if he found it strange to participate in a movie which had already been made from a book. “I would just be thinking, 'What will the people think?' Maybe I'm a total idealist but when they offered me the role the first thing I thought was, 'Will they dilute the story?'... I saw the chance not to shoot for the biggest possible audience but for people who will think about it afterwards."

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Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are splashing out $11.5 million on a new home. The couple - who married in a surprise ceremony last June - are set to buy a three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment in New York's SoHo district. The 4,350 square foot property boasts an additional 2,000 square feet of outdoor space - including a private roof garden with its own kitchen - and facilities including a media room with a woodburning fireplace, the New York Post newspaper reports.

Meanwhile, city records show that Rachel has just sold her old house in the city - with the buyer being her former partner, director Darren Aronofsky. The 'Wrestler' filmmaker - who has a five-year-old son, Henry, with Rachel - paid $2.52 million for the five-storey townhouse. The sum is considerably less than the $3.4 million the former couple paid for the 11.5 room property in 2005 and the house is said to be worth an estimated 3-4 times more than what Darren has just paid. Though it is unclear how many bedrooms the house has, it also boasts a terrace off three second-floor kitchen, a double parlour, and a garden.

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It has been some-more than six months given their unpretentious marriage in New York, so it’s maybe no warn that Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have put down roots in a city. And a luminary integrate are doing so in style, with reports rising that Daniel and a 41-year-old British singer have splashed out a cold $11.5 million on a New York penthouse. According to a New York Post, Daniel, 43 and Rachel are set to buy a three-bedroom, 3 lavatory apartment in a SoHo area of Manhattan.

Plush: The $11.5 million apartment that Daniel Craig and new mother Rachel Weisz are pronounced to have purchased in New York after an downright search New abode: Daniel and Rachel, who seemed together during a premiere in Madrid progressing final week, married final June They are pronounced to have staid on a plush looking building after an downright skill hunt of a city.

The apartment boasts 4,350-square-foot of building space and was listed during $11.5 million before being taken off a marketplace final week. Daniel and Rachel will also suffer 2,000 block feet of outside space consisting of a private roof garden with a possess kitchen, along with a media room with woodburning fireplace.

Brokers concerned in a deal declined to criticism to a newspaper. Rachel lived in New York with her former partner, film executive Darren Aronofsky, who is also a father of her five-year-old son Henry.

After announcing their separate behind in Nov 2010, a deputy pronounced that Rachel and Aronofsky ‘remain tighten friends and are committed to lifting their son together in NYC.’The Oscar winning singer and Daniel, now starring in a English denunciation film chronicle of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, became tighten while filming film thriller Dream House together.

The integrate have been really private about their romance, shunning appearances together and gripping a indifferent proceed to deliberating a attribute in interviews. However, they did make a red carpet coming together progressing this month during a Madrid premiere of The Girl With The Dragon tattoo.

It looks expected that a film will accept a sequel, as it solemnly edges towards recouping a $90 million budget. However, Daniel will initial be reprising his purpose as James Bond for a third time in a new film Skyfall, that will be expelled after this year.

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DANIEL Craig self-consciously tugs at his dark blue T-shirt. All this talk of girls with dragon tattoos has focused attention on his own ink-work and - like any talk of his family - it's a subject he's quick to shut down. "Oh, it's private. I'm sorry, I've got a short T-shirt on today," Craig says, attempting to cover up his tattoos. "They're for me. Each to their own, but I get them done for myself, I don't get them done for anybody else. Even people close to me don't know what they mean. They mark moments in one's life, whatever that is. They're private."

Though it may not always seem it, the 43-year-old Daniel Craig of today is actually a far more chilled and happy creature than the Daniel Craig who was atop the crest of the James Bond wave a few years back.
He last year said Cowboys & Aliens was the most fun he'd ever had making a movie, qualifying that declaration with: "Maybe that's where my head's been at."The thing was, his second Bond film Quantum of Solace - shot in 2008 - had left him "bruised and battered, mentally as well as physically". He began to question his job. Flashes such as this were becoming more frequent: "What the f--- are we doing here? This is nonsense, we're spending all this money and we're all just jerking off, let's be honest."

Looking back now, Craig attempts to explain what he was feeling. "The Bonds are very hard work in the sense of they take two years of your life. Also, I went from nought to 60 really rapidly and it's a big change in your head. "There's a kind of false sense when you're on a movie that large - it's easy to forget why you're doing it. You go, 'Well, I'm doing it now because I have to do it, because I'm tied into this contract ... '"And I didn't start acting to be tied into a contract, I started acting because I love it. "On Quantum we were screwed because the writers' strike meant we didn't have a script. You can't cram a story into a $200 million movie, it just can't be done. So it was guess-work and ... I don't wanna be guessing with that kinda money.

"Luckily it worked out financially, and people forgave us for a lot on that movie. But we were up against it. When you've got the director and the actor - who are the only people allowed to rewrite the script during the strike - trying to rewrite the script plus direct the movie plus star in it, it's like, yeah, you're screwed.
"So possibly I got a little stung by it. I was going 'Christ, I can't work like this. It's too exhausting and not rewarding enough. And I'm not satisfied with the outcome'."

So Craig took some time out - caught up with friends and did a play with Hugh Jackman, A Steady Rain, in New York for a few months in late 2009. "That scares the s--- out of you and resets your mind a bit when you have to go out every night and make an audience enjoy your company," he says. "Then Tintin came along and Cowboys & Aliens and the Fincher thing and suddenly I felt better about things."

The "Fincher thing" is Craig's latest film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, a US remake of the Swedish film based on the first novel in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. The "Fincher thing" has broken many an actor, director David Fincher's working methods famously being compared to a gulag by Robert Downey Jr. And Mark Ruffalo reckons he prayed to get fired while shooting Zodiac.

But the refreshed Craig was equal to anything Fincher could throw at him. He swears there was no breaking down, deconstructing or rebuilding. "Not even slightly. Well, maybe we deconstructed each other a little bit, but in a good way," he grins. "I love him to death.

"There's a whole thing about people saying, 'Oh, it's 40 takes!' I'm like, 'Let's do 50!' I'm only there for one reason, I'm not there to f--- about, I'm not there to have fun, I'm there to do a job. I mean, you have fun - we laughed, you kind of have to laugh on a serial killer movie. It's important you have a laugh when you're hanging from a hook on the ceiling ...

"But I love that process. Fincher is absolutely just about getting it right, getting it right, getting it right. And if you do take after take after take, it's just because it's not right."In The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Craig takes on the role played by Michael Nyqvist in the original - crusading Stockholm journalist Mikael Blomqvist. With his reputation shattered by a libel case, Blomqvist is offered a job by the elderly patriarch of a family empire: find out what happened to his niece, who disappeared 40 years ago.

Things get dangerous when he takes on a research assistant - the girl of the title, Lisbeth Salander (played by The Social Network's Rooney Mara). The role is a little different from Bond in that Blomqvist is more of a thinker than a doer. "Rooney was the one getting really beaten up on that movie," Craig laughs.
Still, Fincher reckoned the character had a "requisite masculinity to it" so - along with needing "somebody who was serious, but who could also have serious fun" - Craig shot to the top of the wishlist. "A lot of people want him and we were lucky to get in that queue," Fincher says. "He's horrendously skilful and was as good as I thought he was - I was more than surprised."

Both Fincher and Craig are quick to talk down the shadow of the Swedish film trilogy (which grossed $215 million worldwide), saying their source was Larsson's book alone. But Craig seems to have been less enticed by the story itself than by what it says about the film industry that it would take on such violent, sexy, edgy and grown-up material. "I know people are questioning why we should make another movie but as far as I'm concerned, if it's a real statement by Hollywood that they'd like to make R-rated adult movies and spend money on them and actually say there's a market out there that isn't just for everybody ... "To make a movie where you're not worried about censoring or dumbing down because you have to appeal to a larger market, then ... I've pounced," Craig says.

"Fincher jokes about it: it's an $80 million independent movie - 'cos we're not at all holding back. That's the movies I grew up watching from the '70s - people would go see The Godfather or All the President's Men because they're bright, intelligent movies that made you think and had bearing on what was going on in the world at the time. "The world is a very weird and amazing place at the moment, so if we're gonna make movies we should make movies about the world."

The initial performance of Fincher's Dragon Tattoo at the US box office again had folk asking why they bothered, but after three weeks it is holding well and studio Sony now expects it to take $300 million worldwide. That has also reportedly been enough for Sony to give the green light to both sequels.
Whether Craig (or Fincher) will return for those is uncertain. For the next year at least, Craig's world will once again be all about Bond, the role he first played in 2006's hugely successful Casino Royale.
The 23rd Bond film Skyfall began shooting last November and will be released on November 22 this year.
And it turns out the enforced lay-off between Bonds - with studio MGM in serious trouble, the production was indefinitely delayed until Sony stepped in to co-finance the movie - was a blessing in disguise, giving Craig's physical and mental bruises time to fade.

"It gave me time to rest up and heal a bit and re-address things. I was really zen about it - if it went, it went. I mean, what can you do?" he shrugs. "A guy was saying, 'Michael Fassbender wants in' ... It's his ... 'It's yours! Take it!'"Joking aside ... if it didn't happen, eventually it would with somebody else. I mean, there's been other Bonds and I'm part of that. This is not falsely getting zen about it - it's the only way to treat it.
"That's why I'm excited about doing another now, like, 'I'm ready now, let's do it'."

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Daniel Craig has no interest in finding out whether he was the victim of phone hacking. Stars including Sienna Miller, Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan have all given evidence at the ongoing Leveson Inquiry in London, which is looking into claims several UK newspaper hacked into celebrities’ phones to obtain information.

Daniel has no idea if his privacy was ever compromised in such a way – something he is glad about. “I don't know for sure. But I don't want to know it. Because what else would this information do apart from bother me? I'd rather not know it,” he told wz-newsline.de. Daniel stars as Mikael Blomkvist in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which is based on the book by Stieg Larsson.

The movie contains a lot of violence and sexual scenes, but Daniel didn’t find them hard to shoot. He is keen to point out how easy his job is compared to what some people do, and gets tired of actors claiming they have things hard.

“My job is simple I don't have go coal mining or anything,” he said. “I go to work and act and it is just so much fun! I'm allowed to do what I always wanted to do. I work with incredible intelligent and creative people. What's hard with that? Sure, [some] scenes [were] heavy but did I get hurt? Or do I wake up at night screaming? No.”

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo actor — who is married to Rachel Weisz — explained along with maintaining a good level of health, his manhood is the most important thing to him. Asked what his most treasured possession is by Vanity Fair magazine, he replied, “Apart from my penis and my health?”

In addition to having a particular fondness for his genitalia, the 43-year-old star also revealed he has an unusual quirk on his body. When asked what his most marked physical characteristic is, he joked, “My third nipple.”

Meanwhile, Daniel’s wife Rachel — who he married in a private ceremony in New York last June, with only four guests in attendance — may have to think about growing a spot of facial hair, as he joked a “good mustache” is his favorite feature of both men and women.

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