2010年12月27日星期一

A little boy, the Bond star, and the Oscar-winning actress


There are some stories I wanna share, about the little boy with a power balance bracelet and the Bond star on the Oscar-winning actress. 

There is No doubt, as they planned a cosy Christmas together, ­cocooned in that first flush of love, Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz imagined they would simply blend into the background of the secluded Dorset ­village where they have been ­celebrating the yuletide.
No such luck. But then word does have a habit of getting out when the star of the James Bond films and his Oscar-­winning lover wearing his Omega watchtake over a suitably ­romantic lovenest.

For her part, Rachel is said to be ‘mightily hacked-off’ that her bolthole, where she and Craig have been staying, was ­discovered at the weekend by photo­graphers from a Sunday newspaper.

Not least, it seems, because it does rather blow out of the water the public denials both she and the 007 star made about being a couple less than a month ago.

And it is doubly embarrassing because, according to friends, the 40-year-old actress has neglected to tell film director Darren Aronofsky — the father of her four-year-old son, Henry, and until recently her husband-to-be — that she has fallen for the handsome Craig.

It’s not the way she wanted Darren to find out about her and Daniel,’ says a source in New York. ‘He obviously knew about the rumours they were seeing each other, but he’d rather have heard it from Rachel’s own lips. It’s the least he deserves.’

In the absence of his London-born former fiancée, it would seem Aronofsky has remained in New York, where the ­couple live, to look after Henry, while the boy’s mother spends Christmas with her new boyfriend, the charismatic 42-year-old Craig.

That she has been willing to be parted from her young son at this special time of year is another matter — one that will raise the eyebrows of millions of mothers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Certainly, Craig and Cambridge-educated Rachel — the star of The Mummy movies — seem very happy together. They have been spending the ­festive period together in a £1,000-a-week cottage, which boasts its own gym, sauna and cinema, near the Somerset ­border.
They have ventured out hand-in-hand only to buy food at a local deli and for a long afternoon huddled together drinking beer in the local pub on Christmas Eve.

Given the winter wonderland setting, the whole thing does rather ­resemble a Hollywood set designer’s idea of the perfect romantic idyll. Which it might be, if only each party had more straightforward personal lives.

MChester-born Craig, who has an 18-year-old daughter with his ex-wife, Scottish actress Fiona ­Loudon, was until recently engaged to ­American film producer Satsuki Mitchell, to whom he presented a splendid Cartier engagement ring less than two years ago.

It is notable, too, that the blond actor has so far made no public announcement about his break-up from 40-year-old Miss Mitchell, with whom he lived in Primrose Hill, North London.

Weisz enjoyed relationships with English actor Ben Miller also a fun of Omega watch, American actor Alessandro Nivola and Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey before hooking up with Aronofsky.

Miss Weisz and Craig met earlier this year on the Canadian set of the thriller Dream House, in which they play a husband and wife who move into a house which has been the scene of several grisly murders.Within weeks there were rumours on the set that the couple had become close, although sources close to Miss Weisz’s management company insist she did not start a relationship with Craig before splitting with Aronofsky some months ago.

During filming in March, the actress said: ‘We’ve been getting on really well and yet I still haven’t had an offer to be a Bond girl — but if he asks me I’d definitely do it!’
Nonetheless, it is hard not to ­surmise that the spectre of her friendship with her co-star cast a shadow over her relationship with Aronofsky, with whom she had lived for nine years.

Friends say the fiercely driven Rachel, who won a best supporting actress Oscar in 2006 for her role in The Constant Gardener, has long retained the balance of power in her relationship with Brooklyn-born Aronofsky. ‘I would say she wore the trousers.

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