Why Daniel Craig Won’t Leave His Fortune to His Kids

Vanessa Obioha

The James Bond star Daniel Craig grabbed headlines during the week for his decision not to leave an inheritance for his children. According to the actor who is married to actress Rachel Weisz inheritance is such a distasteful word.

“Isn’t there an old adage that if you die a rich person, you’ve failed?” he said in an interview with the UK Candis Magazine for its November issue. “I think Andrew Carnegie (an industrialist) gave away what in today’s money would be about $11 billion, which shows how rich he was because I’ll bet he kept some of it too.

“But I don’t want to leave great sums to the next generation. I think inheritance is quite distasteful. My philosophy is: get rid of it or give it away before you go.”

Bond has two children: a three-year-old daughter with his wife, Weisz, and an adult daughter, Ella, from his first marriage to Fiona Loudon. Weisz also has a 15-year-old son, Henry, with director Darren Aronofsky. None of the children will inherit the accumulated wealth of the actor who has played in four James Bond movies with an upcoming fifth one ‘No Time to Die’ slated for October. It is his last outing for the franchise. The 53-year-old actor admitted that the action stunts were beginning to take their toll.

“I started off doing these films very physically and I never really stopped. These days I still do as many stunts as I can because I enjoy the physicality of it. I always have, even before Bond. But I have got older and hopefully a bit wiser. I don’t bounce back as well as I did back then.”

Craig was reportedly paid $25 million for the role and will make $100 million for his role in future ‘Knives Out’ movies which Netflix bought in a multimillion-dollar deal earlier this year.