Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz may be one of the most beautiful and mysterious couples in Hollywood but their relationship did not exactly have the most enigmatic of beginnings.

Even though The Mummy actress and the Bond actor have been married happily since 2011, the pair’s prior relationships with other people have formed a web of intricately connected Hollywood figures that link to Titanic famed Kate Winslet as well as Black Swan director, Darren Aronofsky.

And at the heart of it lies James Bond himself.
Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz at the 7th Annual AMPAS Governors Awards
Daniel Craig Saved His Wife From a Doomed Love Triangle

In the early Aughts, Hollywood was stepping out of its era of decadence – the pinnacle of which was reached by the industry stars during the 90s.

News, media, and tabloid would flash almost every day with headlines that not only peddled to the masses the raging obsession of stars with hard substances but the era was a bespoke generation that saw trendsetters and the likes of Depp & Ryder, Depp & Moss, Pitt & Paltrow, Pitt & Aniston, and of course, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Once the 2000s came around, a pall of stability shrouded Hollywood. The Titanic actress, Kate Winslet tied the knot in 2003 with Skyfall director, Sam Mendes, while Rachel Weisz and Darren Aronofsky after meeting each other in 2001 began dating and later maintained a five-year-long engagement from 2005 to 2010.

The same year Weisz and Aronofsky called it quits, tabloids flashed with headlines about Sam Mendes stepping out on Kate Winslet which automatically took to insinuate that the would-be Bond director was somehow linked to Rachel Weisz, a rumor that painted Weisz as the

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz
However, despite the rumors, it was Daniel Craig who captured Rachel Weisz’s heart and within a year of breaking her engagement with Aronofsky, the actress was married to Craig with whom she now shares a daughter.

Sam Mendes did express interest in Weisz to star in one of his movies but it was Daniel Craig who ended up being the lead of his next project, Skyfall, which was filmed the same year Craig and Weisz tied the knot.

The movie went on to become the highest-grossing Bond film of all time.

Daniel Craig’s Hollywood Plans After James Bond Franchise

Daniel Craig in Skyfall
Despite the Bond Odds looming with potential candidates, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson’s plans for Bond 26 are spectacularly grand and one befitting a fork in the history of cinema that will surely divide the franchise’s fans even more than the portrayal of the first Bond death in history in No Time To Die.

Daniel Craig, in the meantime, has found passion projects and a reinvigorating love for the theatre and comedy.

As for upcoming projects, Knives Out 3 is currently in development (slated to come out in 2024), and a yet-untitled sequel to the animated film Adventures of Tintin is set to premiere in 2027.