Painting had become a creative outlet for the star during Harris’s illness. Having trained as a commercial artist before acting, Brosnan returned to it in the late 1980s, recalling on his website: “I started painting again and out came every colour.” By the time he became Bond, painting was so sufficiently embedded in his life that his dressing room at Leavesden doubled as a studio during GoldenEye.
Daniel Craig: Domestic intelligence, classified
For this final entry, the front door stays closed. Of all the former James Bond actors, Daniel Craig represents a more guarded approach to sharing domestic life. His wife, actress Rachel Weisz, explained the couple’s position in a 2012 conversation with British Vogue: “I think it’s pretty ordinary to think that marriage is private and sacred.”
Speculation over who will inherit Craig’s martini glass keeps his name in the headlines even after his departure.
