Daniel Craig’s “Flashbacks of a Fool” New Trailer
New trailer for Baillie Walsh’s drama “Flashbacks of a Fool” is online.
Daniel Craig plays older fading star Joe Scott who in a downward spiral of sex, drink and drugs returns to his English roots to fully confront his fateful past.
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Daniel Craig’s “Flashbacks of a Fool” Trailer
“Flashbacks of a Fool” drama from director and writer Baillie Walsh centeres on Joe’s teenage years in the 1970s, the film veers, at times erratically, between wistfulness, tragedy and spiky humor.
Daniel Craig plays older fading star Joe Scott who in a downward spiral of sex, drink and drugs returns to his English roots to fully confront his fateful past.
Craig said the film was “a personal journey” for him.
He says it would be “terribly easy” to become like his character Joe Scot, an embittered, fading star who finds no amount of Hollywood hedonism can fill the void within.
“He has failed as a human being, and I wanted to explore that…I think you have to work hard at not becoming disillusioned about what you do for a living,” Craig said. “If you have any success in what you do for a living, you have to maintain an energy and love of it. If you can, that’s a great thing,” Craig said.
“Flashbacks of a Fool” will hit US theaters on October 17, 2008
Daniel Craig has no problem with naked scenes – Interview
Daniel Craig is seen in bed with two women in the opening scene of his new movie, ‘Flashbacks of a Fool.’
Female fans will get to see plenty of the muscle Daniel has put on for his 007 role.
“Getting naked on screen has never bothered me,” he laughed. “I’ve kind of made a career out of it.
“I work out, because that’s what I do now. It’s part of my job. I’ve always worked out to keep fit.
I keep myself as physically fit as possible because of what I’ve got to do in the movies, but I still end up as the walking wounded for the best part of six months when I’m making the Bond movies.”
‘Flashbacks of a Fool’ stars the 40-year-old actor as Joe Scott, a fading movie star, whose addiction to drink, drugs and women has sent his career into a downward spiral.
“The fact that Joe’s a movie star is really secondary,” he said.
“He’s a lonely man in a big house and he’s got everything he wants, or could have. He could have a career but he’s pushed it away. What he needs is friendship, and the support of people who genuinely love him rather than those who don’t.”
“It’s staring him in the face but he can’t see it. He’s got a great family, if a bit dysfunctional, and he has a housekeeper, Ophelia, who could be the love of his life.”
“It’s all there for him, and he’s f***ing it up. I liked that idea.”
After interview it was straight back to work for Daniel, on the set of his second Bond movie, ‘Quantum of Solace.’
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And, despite praise for his first 007 outing, ‘Casino Royale‘, he reckons the pressure is still on.
“I’m no less nervous than I was,” he said.
“I don’t know if I’ll ever feel comfortable with it. You can’t say there’s less pressure when you make a $200 million dollar movie. The pressure is plain to see.
We’ve got to make it as good as if not better than the last one and that’s all that matters.”
“Olga and Gemma are going to be amazing,” he said.
“They’re both very sexy girls which is very good. Olga’s the main ‘Bond girl’ in the movie but Gemma’s no less important.”
When asked about nude scenes in ‘Quantum Of Solace’, Barbara Broccoli cuts in: “I’m trying to get him to take his clothes off every day.”
And Daniel retorts: “It’s not helped by her leaking to the Press every day, ‘He might do, he might do’.”
Then he confirms: “There is a little nudity. It might not be full.”
Daniel Craig in ‘Flashbacks of a Fool’
“Flashbacks of a Fool” is a return to small-scale, personal projects for Craig, playing an aging, miserable actor in the low-budget British film.
It was written and directed by his longtime friend Baillie Walsh, best known as a director of videos and documentaries for bands including INXS, Massive Attack and Oasis.
A coming-of-age drama centered on Joe’s teenage years in the 1970s, the film veers – at times erratically – between wistfulness, tragedy and spiky humor.
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It has British cast that includes Helen McRory, Olivia Williams and Harry Eden as the young Joe, a great soundtrack of vintage David Bowie and Roxy Music, and fantastic seaside scenery – set in a suspiciously sunny English seaside town. It was actually filmed in South Africa.
Daniel Craig said the film was “a personal journey” for him.
He says it would be “terribly easy” to become like his character Joe Scot, an embittered, fading star who finds no amount of Hollywood hedonism can fill the void within.
“He has failed as a human being, and I wanted to explore that,” Craig told at the film’s world premiere in London.
“I think you have to work hard at not becoming disillusioned about what you do for a living,” Craig said. “If you have any success in what you do for a living, you have to maintain an energy and love of it. If you can, that’s a great thing.”
“The film touches on a lot of things we all went through – electrifying moments when you’re a teenager which form who you are as a human being,” Craig said. “I think Baillie has captured that so well.”
“I hit 40 this year, but I still think about being a teenager, and hopefully I will for the rest of my life.”
And Craig says he has discovered an upside to his new fame – the power to get projects like “Flashbacks” made. Craig has an executive producer credit on the film, and his clout helped greenlight the script, which Walsh wrote for him several years ago.
“If I can be responsible, even slightly, for getting movies like this off the ground – movies I can be proud of like this one … then I am going to get a huge amount of enjoyment out of it,” Craig said.
