While straight people weighed in to explain that such spaces made them feel safe, others said gay clubs were being used as an “aesthetic” by those who did not need them.Ĭraig recently received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Last month a viral TikTok post sparked a debate about whether gay spaces should be reserved for members of the LGBTQ+ community. “What happened is we were having a nice night and I kind of was talking to you about my life when my life was changing and we got drunk and I was like, ‘Oh, let’s just go to a bar, come on, let’s fucking go out.’” “For me, it was one of those situations and the irony is, you know, we kind of got caught, I suppose, which was kind of weird because we were doing nothing fucking wrong. We’re two fucking grown men,” Craig said. “OK, the last bit is a tad gross, but who amongst us hasn’t taken a straight friend to a gay bar who’s ended up pulling,” wrote the culture magazine the Glue.Ĭraig and the podcast’s host, Bruce Bozzi, who are old friends, also recalled being photographed hugging outside a gay bar in Venice Beach, California, in 2010, which at the time sparked tabloid speculation about Craig’s sexuality.
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His podcast comments were largely welcomed by the LGBT community on Thursday, though some felt uncomfortable about his attempts to meet women in gay spaces. “The thing is, it just breaks the ice,” Craig said. He recently sent fans into a spin when he told Stephen Colbert that he kissed all of his leading men, after the No Time to Die villain Rami Malek said they had once had a playful smooch after rehearsal. “It was a shitstorm in a teacup,” Craig said.Craig, who made his name starring alongside Jason Isaacs in Angels in America, the Pulitzer prize-winning play examining Aids and homosexuality in the US in the 1980s, has always been comfortable bending the boundaries of his sexuality. Bozzi noted that the National Enquirer made a story of it. And I just was like, ‘I don’t give a fuck.’”Ĭraig said they shared a hug in the parking lot. “What happened is we were having a nice night and I kind of was talking to you about my life when my life was changing and we got drunk and I was like, ‘Oh, fuck, let’s just go to a bar, come on, let’s fucking go out.’ We got busted for doing nothing wrong.
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“We kind of got caught, I suppose, which was kind of weird, ’cause we were doing nothing fucking wrong,” said Craig, who married actor Rachel Weisz in 2011. It was an ulterior motive.”īozzi and Craig, who’s promoting his fifth and final go-round as the British superspy in “No Time To Die,” reminisced about causing a stir when they went to a gay bar together in Venice Beach, California, in 2010.īozzi recalled taking umbrage because a man asked him if he was Craig’s manager and Bozzi yelled at him. And I could meet girls there, cause there are a lot of girls there for exactly the same reason I was there.
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You didn’t really have to sort of state your sexuality. That would happen quite a lot.”Ī gay bar “would just be a good place to go,” Craig continued.
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. “One of the reasons (is) because I don’t get into fights in gay bars that often. “I’ve been going to gay bars for as long as I can remember,” the 53-year-old actor told Bruce Bozzi on the “Lunch with Bruce” podcast. “No Time To Die” star Daniel Craig said on a podcast posted this week that queer nightlife has played a large role in his life and has helped him avoid brawls.