Lu wrote:
How do you feel being a sex symbol?
Daniel Craig: As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration. I didn't go out to play sexy in this film. It's nice...I don't know, I'm embarrassed, I don't know what to say...
It is so strange how he swears up and down that he's NOT a sex symbol, he DOESN'T think about it, he's embarrassed by the attention, blah blah blah...and yet he so clearly flaunts it in his films. He admits himself that he takes off his clothes in all his films, he says this...
(laughs) have you seen my other movies? Self-conscious doesn't really come into it. No.
Even recently he said (bragged) to Ann Curry about getting naked in all his movies also...
so he's really almost an exhibitionist I think, and clearly sets himself forward as a very sexy person just from the roles he chooses if nothing else...so WHY does he constantly shy away and act pained when people say, Oh, you're sexy????? It's almost like, disingenuous in a way. Why does he do that? Anyone have any theories?
For me its the extremes, the opposites, that are within his personality, that keeps me interested.
I don´t think, he is dishonest but rather a bit neurotic about certain thinks, like not being able to take compliments well. We all (I think) have those insecurities, we cannot really explain, only
feel and often are just not able to overcome them. Its probably his dislike towards doing self-promotion and I feel, he sorta puts it all into one box and doesn´t separate very well.
All I know is, that he mostly acts true to what he says, like when in his earlier career, he stopped doing interviews altogether, when they started (after OFITN) to draw a certain sexy and whatnot picture of him, that he didn´t like.
I feel, his reactions are based on the fact, that he chooses to underestimate the impact certain scenes make and is a bit pissed, if the
actor doesn´t get the attention he set out to get and instead people choose to talk about that tiny moment (his words) for example of the trunks.