Esquire talks with Daniel Craig

At Esquire, Tom Chiarella chats with Daniel Craig. On 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Craig says:

"It's as adult as you can possibly make it. This is adult drama. I grew up, as we fucking all did, watching The Godfather and that, movies that were made for adults. And this is a $100 million R-rated movie. Nobody makes those anymore. And Fincher, he's not holding back. They've given him free rein. He showed me some scenes recently, and my hand was over my mouth, going, Are you fucking serious?"

He raises his eyes, looks upward to describe what he saw in a set of Fincher's dailies that startled him this way. You can imagine — the book contains sodomy and torture chambers and lighting people on fire. And yet, "it's not that he simply showed me footage that was horribly graphic," Craig says. "It was stuff that was happening, or had happened. And somehow you don't see it."

What's that mean?

This is the adult thing: to not be obvious about it. "There's more than one way to sense violence," he says. "Much more powerful ways than seeing it step-by-step."

Sounds simply delicious. Love this. Between this and the teaser trailer, very good indications early on. I could be happy watching nothing but '100 million dollar R-rated movies'. I'm just so (so, so very fucking) sick of silly-ass politically correct upright prudish afraid-of-their-own-goddam shadows, shiny on the surface with nothing inside, all-American Hollywood movies.

Could there be more anticipation for this flick. Interview begins here. Above comments here.