If we were married to James Bond or the gorgeous and seriously talented Rachel Weisz , we’d scream it to the heavens. But not this couple.
Daniel and Rachel, who have been married since 2011 and share one daughter, keep mum about the inner workings of their relationship .
Thanks to some top secret digging, though ( James Bond-style ), we’ve pieced together their timeline, each sweet moment at a time.
Sometime in College: They First Meet
Believe it or not, the couple goes way back. They met sometime in college and were friends for years before they finally got together. It was the 2010 thriller Dream House that finally took their status to more than friends.
An exact timeline for this is tricky.
What happens when two private celebs get together? Nothing! Because you don’t hear about it. “Daniel and I are really similar,” Weisz told The New York Times . “We’re just really crap at talking about our private lives.”
2011: They Get Married
Only six months after they started dating, they got married in a low-key wedding. It was so private that they only had a few guests in attendance.
This includes their two kids from previous marriages, a daughter named Ella for Daniel and a son named Henry for Rachel.
Craig shared the reason for the privateness in an interview with ‘GQ.’
“We got away with it. We did it privately. And I’ve got a lot of people to thank for that. But that was the point. We did it for private reasons,” he said . He also refused to reveal details about the wedding.
2012: They Make Their First Red Carpet Appearance
This only took about a year since they got married (and many more since they first met) but the wait proved to be worth it!
They looked absolutely glowing and in love at the Madrid premiere of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
2013: Rachel Shares That They Don’t Talk About Work
While they both share the same profession of acting, Weisz told Marie Claire UK that talking about work is off-limits for them. “I don’t talk about my work, and nor does he. It’s very private,” she said.
“There is nothing worse than two actors getting together and talking about acting,” she continued.
“It’s like the end – it’s the worst.”
They must’ve talked to come to the decision that Daniel won’t leave any of his money to his kids, though! ” I don’t want to leave great sums to the next generation. I think inheritance is quite distasteful,” he told the UK’s Candis Magazine .
2015: Rachel Explains Why They Keep Their Marriage Private
“He’s just too famous. It would be a betrayal. You have to protect your marriage,” she said in an interview with MORE magazine .
“When you’re young, you tell your girlfriends everything.”
With Craig’s former status as James Bond, anonymity was even more important.
“One of the great pleasures of not being an adolescent is that you don’t have to share everything.” Well, if we were married to Daniel Craig, it would be hard to shut us up!
August 2015: The ‘Knives Out’ Actor Opened Up About Their Private Marriage
“There were phones back then, but nobody used the cameras,” he said of meeting fans to Dujour magazine . “Or there was a rule, if someone did it, you’d be like, ‘What the [expletive] are you doing?!’ My wife is the best in the world at all that, she’ll just turn to them and go, ‘No, thank you very much,’ and they’re like, ‘OK.’”
2018: Rachel Says That She Never Thought She’d Get Married
“It was not an ambition of mine. It was the opposite,” she told The Standard . “I couldn’t relate to romantic comedies – marriage seems to be the whole point of them. Then it just happened, happily, at a more mature moment.”
Of course, it would take someone as special as James Freaking Bond to turn her thoughts around.
“I’m very happy being married. Very, very happy. I love being Mrs. Craig,” she told the New York Times . “I’m Mrs. Craig on my checkbooks and passports and things.”
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2018: They Announce That They’re Expecting
Big news deserves a big publication. So Rachel chose The New York Times to share her news about their bundle of joy.
“I’ll be showing soon. Daniel and I are so happy. We’re going to have a little human.
‘We can’t wait to meet him or her. It’s all such a mystery.”
2018: They Welcome a Daughter
Their baby girl was welcomed in September 2018. It’s been four years since then and they still haven’t revealed the name yet, nor have they released any images of her. Knowing the couple’s love for privacy, they likely never will.
That same year, Weisz told ‘The Mirror’ that they won’t be having another child together.
“When I had my son [Henry] I thought I’d have maybe two or three more. But the preciousness of a new life and family means so much more now I’m more mature and older,” she said.
“My son was a miracle, and it was an incredible experience. But doing it again now I’m older is very deep and very precious. I am very lucky.”
