Daniel Craig Explains Why He Prefers Going To Gay Bars

Daniel Craig may have created a tough, action-guy, persona on screen, but this James Bond recently admitted he prefers to visit gay bars -- for a very good reason.

The 53-year-old 'No Time To Die' actor, who married actress Rachel Weisz in 2011, recently appeared in a podcast and revealed that choosing to go to gay bars for his night-outs helped him avoid unnecessary fights. 

The actor says he has grown sick of the ‘aggressive’ men he encounters at hetero bars.

“I’ve been going to gay bars for as long as I can remember,” Craig told Bruce Bozzi on the 'Lunch with Bruce' podcast. 

“One of the reasons (is) because I don’t get into fights in gay bars that often. ... The aggressive d**k 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 added that a gay bar “would just be a good place to go” since everybody in there was chill.   

“Everybody was chill. You didn’t really have to sort of state your sexuality. It was OK. 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 and Craig were promoting Craig's 'No Time To Die,' the actor's fifth and final appearance in the James Bond franchise.

Back in 2010, the two got caught in a controversy after they were spotted together in a gay bar in Venice Beach, California. Bozzi and Craig recalled the funny incident and how Bozzi got angry after a man approached them asking if he was Craig's manager.

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

“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**k, let’s just go to a bar, come on, let’s f**king go out.’ We got busted for doing nothing wrong. And I just was like, ‘I don’t give a f**k.’”

The two shared a hug in the parking lot and news outlets like National Enquirer made a story of it.

“It was a shitstorm in a teacup,” Craig said.

Watch the full interview here: