Daniel Craig Confesses To Stealing Food From Supermarkets Before His Acting Career Took Off

Mar 06, 2023

Daniel Craig is likely a household name across the world today. Though Craig has starred in other movies throughout his career, his most well-known role is, of course, playing special agent James Bond.

Since the movies began filming in the 60s, the actors playing the role of "007" have gone on to achieve great fame and acclaim. Before Craig, Pierce Brosnan held the role of "James Bond." It is a prestigious role indeed, and Craig has done the role great justice as well.

Craig has always lived a relatively private life and, unlike other A-list celebrities, does not like being in the spotlight after he is done filming. However, he has taken opportunities previously to speak out about his love for his family as well as his wife. Craig has been married to actress Rachel Weisz since 2011, with whom he shares a daughter. Craig also has a daughter from his previous relationship with Fiona Loudon.

He is hailed as one of the most popular actors in the world. According to Celebrity Net Worth, his net worth is reported to be around $160 million as of 2022. From his latest movie, "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," Variety says that he was paid more than $100 million on the second installment of the movie franchise. 

But before Craig amassed this fortune and wealth, he had a particularly challenging time growing up, even recalling a particular moment when he had to shoplift frozen meat in a supermarket. 

Read on to learn more about Craig's life growing up and his journey to stardom and wealth. 

Born Daniel Wroughton Craig on Mar. 2, 1968, in Chester, Cheshire, to an art teacher mother, Carol Olivia, and a midshipman merchant navy father, Timothy, Craig was a product of a divorced family. 

At the age of 16, Craig left school and made his way to London to try and become an actor. He was then accepted into the National Youth Theatre and was assigned to a room of a gay couple.

"I mean, who would invite a fucking 18-year-old into their house? I have no idea. It was a time I thought I was a man but I wasn't. They taught me how to behave, put a roof over my head, and believed in me. They led me into the adult world. I think about them a lot," he recalled to Rolling Stone in a 2012 interview. 

In 1992, Craig debuted in the film, "The Power of One," where he starred alongside Morgan Freeman. He also got small television roles on "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes," "Boon," and "Covington Cross," among many others. 

Eventually, Craig landed bigger roles, especially in television. In 1996, he starred in the BBC drama "Our Friends in the North," acting alongside Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee, and Mark Strong. According to The Guardian, Craig considered his role in that drama as his breakthrough role. 

Eventually, in 2005, Craig landed the role of a lifetime when he was cast as James Bond in the "James Bond" franchise. Sean Connery, one of the biggest Bond actors, described Craig's casting as "fantastic" and "marvelous," as reported by Looper.  

The role in getting where he is right now has been particularly challenging. Speaking more to Rolling Stone about it, Craig opened up to the publication about his youthful encounters and shenanigans to keep himself alive and surviving way back when he was young. 

On good days, when he has the money, Craig revealed that he spends it on a good meal – beer, smoked salmon, and chicken or beef stew. At the time when his landlord is asking for the rent, Craig said he "sometimes skip out. 

But perhaps the most shocking among all of his recollections were shoplifting in supermarkets. 

He told the publication that he did it with his ex-girlfriend, entering basically without anything and leaving with a "whole frozen duck" under her skirt. 

"I played decoy, and she got it up her skirt, which was quite a feat, I have to say, but she did it with aplomb, pretending she was pregnant. By the way, I only stole from supermarkets that could afford it. I want to make that perfectly clear. But, fuck, you know, we didn't have anything to eat, and we had to feed ourselves," he then clarified. 

But Craig's hard work, wit, and world-class talent made it possible for him to overcome all of those challenges. To date, Craig is a British Academy Film Award nominee, Independent Spirit Award nominee, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and even received a CMG in the 2022 New Year's Honours by Queen Elizabeth II.

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