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• DANIEL CRAIG SAYS GAY RELATNSHIP IN KNIV OUT 'REFLECTS MY LIFE'
• DANIEL CRAIG SAYS HIS 'GLASS ONN' CHARACTER BEG GAY 'JT FEELS RIGHT': 'IT'S NORMAL'
• DANIEL CRAIG ON HIS CHARACTER'S GAY RELATNSHIP 'KNIV OUT' SEQUEL: 'IT'S NORMAL'
• DANIEL CRAIG 'ALL GOOD' WH HIS GAY CHARACTER KNIV OUT SEQUEL
• ‘IT’S NORMAL’: DANIEL CRAIG SAYS GAY RELATNSHIP KNIV OUT ‘REFLECTS MY LIFE’
• DANIEL CRAIG SAID HE GO TO GAY BARS TO AVOID AGGRSIVE MEN STRAIGHT CLUBS
• DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS
• JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
• DANIEL CRAIG SAYS HE GO TO GAY BARS OFTEN: 'I DON'T GET INTO FIGHTS' THERE

DANIEL CRAIG SAYS GAY RELATNSHIP IN KNIV OUT 'REFLECTS MY LIFE'

It was recently nfirmed that Craig’s character is gay, and speakg to The Sunday Tim, he said: “It’s normal. Rather than slottg people neatly to box, I’d love if we all felt a b eer; ls nstraed by rigid tegori of “gay” and “straight”. And ’s still radil, and so important, bee the world isn’t there yet terms of LGBT+ rights, somethg that we have been remd of durg the World Cup Qatar – a untry where homosexualy is is one of 70 natns around the world that legislate agast the LGBT+ muny – 11 of them threaten the ath penalty.

It’s not difficult to draw a parallel between how gay people were treated the 1980s and 90s and how the trans muny are targeted today. And that [gay] relatnship reflects my life. If Craig meant himself, then I’m lighted for him – and if he was speakg more generally, then that’s posive, serv praise for bluntly normalisg the cisn to make his Kniv Out character gay.

Craig's stg on the heels of another scene-stealg performance an LGBTQ role, after his Kniv Out tective character Beno Blanc was revealed to be gay tr Rian Johnson's new Netflix sequel Glass Onn, which hs the streamg platform on Dec.

DANIEL CRAIG SAYS HIS 'GLASS ONN' CHARACTER BEG GAY 'JT FEELS RIGHT': 'IT'S NORMAL'

After his character was revealed to be livg wh another man (played by Hugh Grant), Johnson nfirmed that Beno is "obvly" gay. Gudagno has also ma a name for himself as an openly gay director wh his crilly and mercially ld 2017 adaptatn of another queer classic, André Aciman's 2007 novel Call Me by Your Name.

DANIEL CRAIG ON HIS CHARACTER'S GAY RELATNSHIP 'KNIV OUT' SEQUEL: 'IT'S NORMAL'

Daniel Craig has said that his character’s gay relatnship the Kniv Out sequel Glass Onn “reflects” his own life. The former Jam Bond actor recently reprised his role as tective Beno Blanc the film seri, the latt which was released cemas last month and will arrive on Netflix on 23 Onn featur a scene that suggts Blanc liv wh a male pann, wh director Rian Johnson also nfirmg to Insir that the character is “obvly” a gay relatnship. Daniel was asked about this an terview wh The Sunday Tim, to which he explaed that when makg films, “you are supposed to reflect life” ntued: “And that [gay] relatnship reflects my life.

And that [gay] relatnship reflects people my life, " Daniel Craig said of his character Glass Onn. And that [gay] relatnship reflects people my life, " Craig, 54, told The Sunday Tim an terview published Sunday about tective Beno Blanc, his character Kniv Out and the new sequel Glass Onn: A Kniv Out Mystery.

The films' wrer-director Rian Johnson told the Tim that Blanc beg gay "jt ma sense to Daniel and me, " but that wasn't meant to be somethg that was a big foc.

DANIEL CRAIG 'ALL GOOD' WH HIS GAY CHARACTER KNIV OUT SEQUEL

And that [gay] relatnship reflects people my life, " he explaed. At the time, Craig said he was fe wh the character beg gay but would not disclose who plays Beno's partner the film.

‘IT’S NORMAL’: DANIEL CRAIG SAYS GAY RELATNSHIP KNIV OUT ‘REFLECTS MY LIFE’

Daniel Craig has talked about the recent nfirmatn that his Glass Onn character is gay, sayg “’s normal. And that [gay] relatnship reflects my life” 54-year-old add: “It’s normal.

DANIEL CRAIG SAID HE GO TO GAY BARS TO AVOID AGGRSIVE MEN STRAIGHT CLUBS

”The Jam Bond star has prevly said he do not want viewers to bee “polilly hung up” on Blanc’s stars as Beno Blanc ‘Glass Onn’ (Netflix)Last year, the actor spoke about his own sexualy durg an appearance on rtratr Bce Bozzi’s Lunch wh Bce , Craig addrsed reports that he and Bozzi had been seen kissg at a gay bar lled Roosterfish Venice Beach, California 2010. ”Craig went on to say that he has been gog to gay bars “for as long as I n remember”.

DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS

“One of the reasons, bee I don’t get to fights gay bars that often… bee the aggrsive d*** swgg hetero bars, I jt got very sick of []. ”Kate Hudson, Jsi Henwick and Daniel Craig ‘Glass Onn: A Kniv Out Mystery' (John Wilson/Netflix)He said that the gay bars were a safe place to be and that “you didn’t really have to sort of state your sexualy”. Origally wrten the early 1950s, and then not published until 1985 (bee of the gay stuff) Burroughs’ Queer is the story of a man named Lee (Craig)—said to be a fictnalized versn of the thor himself—who is fightg addictn while livg Mexi Cy.

JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP

The film will be directed by Lu Guadagno, perhaps bt known for another age-gap gay romance Call Me By Your Name, as well as the 2018 Spiria remake and last year’s Bon And All. When asked about a scene which Blanc is shown wh a male lover, Johnson said, “Y, obvly he is [gay]. Getty/Max MunbyDaniel Craig, also known as Jam Bond the "007" seri, said he lik to go to gay bars to avoid aggrsive straight actor said he started to gog to gay bars his youth to stop gettg beat up.

"There are a lot of girls there for exactly the same reason, " Craig Craig may play a macho man as Jam Bond the "007" seri, but he said he tri his bt to avoid aggrsive men actor told Bce Bozzi wh SiriXM he's been gog to gay bars for years to avoid "the aggrsive dick-swgg hetero bars, " acrdg to the New York Daily News. "I've been gog to gay bars for as long as I n remember, " Craig said on the "Lunch wh Bce" SiriXM podst. "One of the reasons, bee I don't get to fights gay bars that often.

DANIEL CRAIG SAYS HE GO TO GAY BARS OFTEN: 'I DON'T GET INTO FIGHTS' THERE

"The Brish actor said he first started gog to gay bars his youth bee he didn't want to get punched on a night out, which would happen "que a lot" at straight explaed people weren't bothered by his prence at gay bars, spe beg a straight man himself. He said no one really asked him about his sexualy when he was out at gay bars, makg them a "very safe place to be. "Bee many straight women go to bars that ter to gay men, Craig said he was even able to pick up women on nights out.

Daniel Craig has revealed that he go to gay bars to avoid "aggrsive" men, havg grown "sick" of gettg to Jam Bond actor, who has jt released his fifth and fal film as 007, No Time To Die, said was tired of the "aggrsive d*** swgg hetero bars".

"I've been gog to gay bars for as long as I n remember, " he said. "And one of the reasons - bee I don't get to fights gay bars that often.