Daniel Craig Wore Lycra To Meet Eastwood

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Daniel Craig was mortified to discover he would be meeting Clint Eastwood while wearing a skin-tight motion-capture suit.

The lycra body stockings are used in movies which include a lot of computer-generated imagery (CGI). They are covered in motion sensors, so actor’s movements can be monitored when the imagery is added in after shooting.

Daniel had to wear one for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which is directed by Steven Spielberg and due out next year, and Steven has revealed he was not happy about it.

“When we were shooting Tintin, Daniel Craig was on set in his performance capture outfit and I invited Clint Eastwood to come by to see what we were doing because he had never seen the digital world of performance capture technology,” he recalled to Empire magazine.

“Daniel came over to me and said, ‘There’s a rumour going around that you invited Clint Eastwood to come and see the set?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ Daniel said, ‘I’m not gonna meet him looking like this. I’ve wanted to meet that man all my life and you’ve invited him and I’m looking like this?!’”

Steven told the anecdote in a joint interview with James Cameron, who used the technology for his movie Avatar. He was quizzed on whether he had ever been tempted to put on the suit, as Peter Jackson did when he was shooting King Kong.

“Maybe if I have six weeks to work out. That suit is unforgiving. Your love handles hang out. Your gut hangs out,” he laughed.