The couple met in a fiery play in 1994, but the relationship remained a friendship until 2010 when they met on the set of Behind the Walls. A few months later they were secretly married in front of only four guests.
This week Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz will celebrate double birthdays. Today they enjoy a discreet and unusual lifestyle for two Hollywood stars after having expanded their family two years ago with their daughter.
As reports, the British actors worked together for the first time in 1994 in the fiery play Les Grandes Horizontales at the National Theater Studio in London. In the words of Rupert Christiansen, historical consultant of the production, the British performers shared a lot of "fake s-x, cuddling and nudity" in the performance. But the relationship remained a friendship, among other things, because Craig's heart was already occupied.
The famous James Bond interpreter was married to the Scottish actress Fiona Loudon between 1992 and 1994, with whom he had his first daughter in Ella (1992). Later, he had a seven-year relationship with the German performer Heike Makatsch (Love Actually), with whom he broke up in 2004. And he became engaged to the American producer Satsuki Mitchell (One Night Only), extending the relationship between 2005 and 2010.
Weisz, for her part, spent almost a decade, from 2001 to 2010, with the American director and screenwriter Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan). Together they had a child, Henry (2006).
Craig and Weisz's paths crossed again in 2010 during the filming of the film Behind the Walls. In this psychological thriller, the actors played a couple who move with their two daughters to a haunted house. According to The Guardian, a few months later, in the summer of 2011, they married in a private, if not secret, ceremony in New York attended only by their respective children and two friends.
"I got married secretly because my private life is very important to me," Craig said, according to Hello! magazine. Weisz explained her decision to ES Magazine as follows: "It's very personal, very private. I don't think mine is particularly exceptional, apart from the fact that we are both in the public eye. But I never thought I would get married. It wasn't an ambition. mine. It was the complete opposite. I couldn't relate to romantic comedies, it seemed like marriage was the goal. Then it happened, happily, at a much more mature time."
Since then the couple has jealously maintained their privacy, appearing together in public only on red carpets. And in September 2018 they had a girl together, whose name they have not shared either. In fact, Weisz does not accept questions about his children or his marriage while promoting his films, including his recent work in The Favorite. And Craig, who announced a year ago that he would not play James Bond again, has not spoken publicly about his family either.
Craig and Weisz live between the United States and the United Kingdom trying to keep a low profile. So much so that none of them have social networks. For example, an anecdote about the actor. "I have a 30-minute window before I'm recognized in a pub. After that time it's impossible to relax, so I've had to become an expert at drinking pints in half an hour," he told The Daily Star.
