Daniel Craig enjoys drinking
When he heard that he was chosen to be the new Bond, Daniel Craig says,”I was shopping, and I dropped what I was carrying. I went straight to the alcohol section and got myself a bottle of vodka and a bottle of vermouth and went back and made myself a Martini - or two.” [The Sunday Herald, Oct. 16, 2005]
Acclaimed for his toned look as the new James Bond, Craig has commented about his training regime: “I’m not obsessive about fitness. I work out three or four times a week but I take the weekends off and drink as much Guinness as I can get down my neck.” [mi6.co.uk]
But that love of knocking down a few - or more - pints he blames for his nude scene in the 2000 movie Some Voices: “The scene was written as me running down the road stripped to the waist covered in tomato juice. But then I got drunk at Simon’s and said, ‘I’ll do it naked!’ The lesson is never get drunk with directors.” [imdb.com]
Many of us appreciate drinking to varying degrees. There are even some health benefits of red wine, for example, that are increasingly supported by research.
But as I note in my article Gifted, Talented, Addicted, a number of people with exceptional abilities have used drugs and alcohol as self-medication to ease the pain of high sensitivity, or as a way to enhance thinking and creativity. Sometimes they risk addiction.
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