Daniel Craig Says He Likes Going To Gay Bars Because They Are “A Safe Place” Free Of “Aggressive" Men

Daniel Craig doesn’t like confrontations. That’s why he prefers to chill out at gay bars to steer clear of “the aggressive dick-swinging in hetero bars”.

Speaking to Bruce Bozzi on his Lunch with Bruce podcast, the out-going James Bond star said that he first started going to gay bars in his youth.

“I’ve been going to gay bars for as long as I can remember,” the UK-born American actor said. “One of the reasons, because I don’t get into fights in gay bars that often.

“The aggressive dick-swinging in hetero bars, I just got very sick of it as a kid because it’s like I don’t want to end up being in a punch-up. And I did. That would happen quite a lot.”

Craig, 53, said that he enjoyed being in a gay bar and the people there weren’t bothered by his presence, despite being a straight man himself. Craig is married to Black Widow star Rachel Weisz. He has a 29-year-old daughter, Ella, with his first wife Scottish actress Fiona Loudon.

He added, “You didn’t really have to sort of state your sexuality. It was okay. And it was a very safe place to be. And I could meet girls there, cause there are a lot of girls there for exactly the same reason I was there. It was an ulterior motive.”

Bozzi, who’s been a friend of Craig’s for a long time, also reminisced the time back in 2010 when they were caught by tabloids hanging out together at a gay bar (called Roosterfish) in Venice Beach, California.

"We had a good time the band was playing, and then somebody else asked me if I was your manager and I yelled at him because I was like, 'what do you mean his manager?'" Bozzi recalled to Craig.

“We kind of got caught, I supposed, which was kind of weird, ’cause we were doing nothing f***ing wrong,” said Craig.

“What happened is we were having a nice night and I kind of was talking to you about my life when my life was changing and we got drunk and I was like, ‘Oh, f***, let’s just go to a bar, come on, let’s f***ing go out.’

“We got busted for doing nothing wrong. And I just was like, ‘I don’t give a f***.’”

Watch Craig’s interview with Bozzi here:

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