The discreet marriage of Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz that began with a secret wedding
The couple met in a fiery play in 1994, but the relationship remained a friendship until in 2010 they coincided in the filming of Behind the walls. A few months later they secretly married before only four guests.
This week Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz will celebrate birthdays twice. On March 2 agent 007 turns 53 and on March 7 the Oscar-winning actress of The Constant Gardener will appear at 51. Almost a decade ago the couple walked down the aisle, after years of being friends. Today they enjoy a discreet and unusual lifestyle for two Hollywood stars after having extended the family two years ago with their daughter.
As reported by Newsweek, 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 for the show, the British performers shared a lot of "fake sex, snuggling and nudity" in the show. But the relationship remained a friendship, among other things, because Craig's heart was already occupied.
The famous James Bond interpreter was married to 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 interpreter Heike Makatsch (Love Actually) with whom he broke up in 2004. And he got engaged with 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 boy, Henry (2006).
Craig and Weisz's paths crossed again in 2010 during the filming of the movie Behind the Walls. In this psychological thriller, the actors played a married couple who moved with their two daughters to a haunted house. According to The Guardian, a few months later, in the summer of 2011, they were married in a private, if not secret, ceremony in New York attended only by their respective children and two friends.
"I secretly got married because my private life is very important to me," Craig said, according to the magazine Hello! Weisz explained her decision to ES Magazine as follows: "It's very personal, very private. I don't think mine is particularly exceptional, other than we're both in the public eye. But I never thought I'd get married. It wasn't an ambition." It was the opposite. I couldn't relate to rom-coms, it seemed like marriage was the goal. Then it happened, happily, at a much more mature time."
Since then the couple has zealously maintained their privacy, only appearing together in public on red carpets. And in September 2018 they had a girl together, whose name they have not shared either. In fact, Weisz doesn't take questions about his children or his marriage while promoting his movies, most notably his recent work on The Favourite. 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 sample, an anecdote of the actor. "I have a 30-minute window before I'm recognized in a pub. After this time it's impossible to relax, so I've had to become an expert on pints in half an hour," he told The Daily Star.
