What Is Daniel Craig Drinks In Layer Cake?

Daniel Craig in Layer Cake (2004).

Seeing as the stoner holiday of four/20 is coming up this weekend, it's just advisable that BAMF Style profiles a cinematic drug dealer. Still, the classy "businessman" of Layer Cake is hardly the traditional dealer…

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Daniel Craig as an unnamed London drug dealer

London, Summer 2004

Film:Layer Cake
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Costume Designer: Stephanie Collie

Background

Layer Cake could almost exist chosen Daniel Craig'southward test drive equally Bond. While more than timid than the infamous spy ("I detest guns! Although that one is very pretty…"), he plays a cunning, manipulative, and cheeky anti-hero with a alien but specific fix of morals. He also has a pretty abrupt wardrobe without resorting to Bond's dinner jacket and martini trope. As well, much like Bail, he gets to enjoy a steamy mid-day hotel room tryst with a femme fatale, until he is rudely interrupted of course.

Nevertheless, there is one major departure glaring betwixt Daniel Craig in Layer Cake and Daniel Craig as Bail. In Layer Cake, he plays a criminal. A drug dealer, to be verbal. Now, he is a drug dealer with morals, but still, I retrieve we tin can all agree that drug dealing is a profession Bond would look downwardly upon. Although, as Dan himself tells united states in the film's narration…

I'm not a gangster, just a businessman. And my article happens to exist cocaine.

Since we are never told his actual proper noun in the film – the credits even just call him XXXX – I volition refer to him as simply Dan.

What'd He Wear?

Dan's standard expect inLayer Cake is a low-cal gray T-shirt and jeans with a jacket. In that location are others, which will be covered in afterwards posts, but this is his staple. Dan'due south attire, in fact, is very remnant of the later grapheme and BAMF Way favorite Hank Moody with his solid, neutrally-colored T-shirts, dark jeans, brown Chelsea boots, and night jackets.

In every scene not requiring a suit, Dan sports a pair of well-fitting standard medium-nighttime wash blue denim jeans, worn with a dark brown leather belt. The jeans may be Levi's, every bit indicated by the small but distinctive red tag on the inner border of the right rear pocket. The "rounded-V" rear pocket seams also await similar those typically found on Levi's jeans.

The center photo is probably up for a Almost Bad-mannered Angle on BAMF Style award.

The wide dark dark-brown leather chugalug fastens in the front end through a large silvery buckle. The belt has three rows of holes, extending around the unabridged chugalug.

Dan's footwear of choice throughout is a pair of dark brownish leather Chelsea boots with brownish rubberband sides and black soles. Reportedly, the particular boots in the film are R.M. Williams "Henley" style chestnut-colored boots. It looks similar he usually wears these with black socks.

Dan sports a pair of what are likely R.M. Williams boots. Spot a young Tom Hardy in the center photo.

Dan most always wears a light gray brusque-sleeve T-shirt, much as he later will in Casino Royale. The raglan-sleeve shirt is looser than a normal T-shirt and has very small piping on the neck and arm holes.

However, for one scene where Dan and his crew (which includes a young Tom Hardy) go to meet with young man drug dealers in a cabin, he swaps the grey for a solid blackness brusk-sleeve T-shirt. This black shirt seems to be more like a standard T-shirt than the grayness, with no shoulder yokes and typical neck and arm hole pipe.

Note George Harris next to Dan equally Morty, a fellow badass who gets a Crowning Moment of BAMFery when he stomps the shit out of an old crony.

When we first see Dan in the film, he is sporting a uncomplicated black knee-length raincoat. The single-breasted coat has a standard safari-jacket-manner neckband and fastens with 4 buttons down the front. At that place is an slash pocket on each side, button-tab cuffs, and a black lining. We don't run across much of the rear, only information technology appears to have a unmarried vent.

A wise purchase for anyone living in London. (Or Seattle, but that's besides the betoken)

The most mutual jacket seen, notwithstanding is a very cool leather jacket that Daniel Craig also appears to own in real life. It is a soft leather jacket in very dark espresso brown with large shirt-manner turndown collars and a silver nil-fastening front with a faceted obelisk attachment pull. The thin and lite "chili red" polished suede lining can be seen when the jacket is worn open up, extending all effectually the within to the very edges of the zipper.

There are no yoke panels, only a horizontal seam across each side of the chest and down the inside of each arm. A vertical seam runs down the center of the dorsum. The cuffs are plain with no buttons, snaps, or zips. The but outer pockets are the slash pockets on each side in the front. The waist-length coat is slim cut with a skillful drape, fitting Dan's athletic build well.

Dan has been spotted out wearing the exact same jacket. Not certain what came beginning, but it's definitely a dandy jacket.

I have heard several arguments for the coat existence Armani, Belstaff, or Schott UK. However, Omar, a very helpful commenter on this blog, has the same jacket and indicated that it is actually fabricated by Dunhill, with the Dunhill logo visible on the within of the jacket during the hotel scene. Omar besides helpfully provided some details of the jacket, including immigration up for me the fact that it is a very dark brown rather than black. The chocolate-brown makes more than sense, complementing the brown boots and belt worn by Craig'south character.

The same jacket is too owned by Dougray Scott, worn past Scott in a Mercedes-Benz ad a few years agone. Omar, who too pointed out the Scott connectedness, mentioned that American versions of this Dunhill jacket use leather-tabbed double zippers.

Finally, when Dan goes looking for the daughter of his boss's friend (or is information technology?), he wears his usual gray T-shirt and jeans with a dark navy pinstripe sport coat (or orphaned adapt jacket). The jackethas notch lapels and a 2-button, single-breasted front. Boosted details include deep double rear vents and flapped, direct hip pockets. No chest pocket. He later wears the same jacket with a white shirt.

If you're all disappointed that you didn't get to see more of this jacket, don't fret, at that place volition be an Unabridged POST dedicated later to the jackets that Dan wears in this moving-picture show. Yes, I take a lot of free fourth dimension.

Dan keeps the accessories to a minimum, wearing just a stainless wristwatch – possibly a Rolex Datejust – with a black punch, which he slips into his jeans pocket when working easily-on with his trade.

Any idea what sort of watch he's sporting? As this is pre-Bond, I think nosotros can rule out Omega.

He also briefly wears a pair of black plastic wraparound sunglasses with dark lenses. I can't tell what they are, but they announced to be Persol.

Christ, he's a BAMF.

We don't see much of his underwear, but a bit of lite blueish material pokes up from fourth dimension to time in the right spots, lending credence to the thought that his boxers may be light blue. Again, nosotros're stretching into some very intense and unnecessary detail hither, but some people are crazy about how they replicate a await, then I figured they needed to take this sort of information.

What to Imbibe

Although not a drug user despite his trade, Dan certainly imbibes plenty of booze throughout the movie. Nosotros see him down an unabridged bottle of Macallan, a few more than glasses of whisky, and a couple of glasses of Irish whisky – Locke's 8-Year-Erstwhile Single Irish Malt and Tyrconnell Single Irish Malt. Similar whatever good whisky drinker should – especially when the booze in question is top-notch stuff – Dan drinks it peachy.

Layer Cake: The Destruction of Daniel Craig'due south Liver.

He also mixes himself a Vodka Tonic using Schweppe's tonic in his hotel room, likely to settle his nerves before his big date with the lingerie-clad Sienna Miller.

Oh, and he also drinks a Foster'southward.

Australian for BEER.

In example y'all're curious, the phone he uses to arrange all of his dingy deals is a Nokia.

How to Get the Look

Dan pulls off some very standard looks in Layer Cake, just a lot of what makes it standard out comes from the fit and the confidence. Dan wears dress that fit him well, and thus he is confident that they look skilful. Try and do the same.

• Dunhill dark espresso brown leather null-up waist-length jacket with shirt-fashion neckband, slanted hand pockets, and dark red lining
• Lite gray cotton T-shirt with small banded piping and short raglan sleeves
• Levi'southward medium-dark blue denim jeans
• Dark brown wide leather belt with a silver buckle and three rows of holes
• Dark brown leather R.G. Williams "Henley" skid-on Chelsea boots with brown elastic side gussets
• Black socks
• Light blue boxer shorts
• Rolex DateJust wristwatch with a round stainless instance and black punch
• Black plastic Persol wraparound sunglasses with dark lenses

This is just Dan's base wait. He also switches it up with the black raincoat, nighttime navy pinstripe suit jacket, and a black brusk-sleeve T-shirt.

The Gun

To the best of my – and IMFDB's – expansive knowledge, Layer Cake is the only major motion-picture show to date to feature the Chinese Type 67 silenced pistol. And feature it it does, playing a pivotal office throughout in the hands of most major cast members.

Without proverb much more, let's talk a little more nearly the distinctive pistol that Dan keeps under his pillow…

Which, past the way, is a terrible place to keep a gun.

First, to backtrack, the Chinese developed the Type 64 in the mid-1960s (uh, probably around xix64) every bit a special purpose silenced weapon for military machine and police operations. Equally opposed to many silenced weapons in movies – where we get the dramatic scene of the hitman screwing on the suppressor before going in for a impale – the Blazon 64 had an integral sound suppressor, pregnant it was part of the gun itself. The integral suppressor was, in fact, a sparse steel case with steel mesh and several baffles that slow down and cool the expanding muzzle blast.

A few years later – oh, let's say it was 1967, the Type 67 was developed to replace the Type 64 in service. Similar the Type 64, the Type 67 was a single-action, blowback-operated, integrally-suppressed semi-automated pistol with a slide lock mechanism. Information technology even held and fired nine rounds of the same 7.65×17 mm cartridge, a tedious just silent round adult specifically for the Type 64. They were even the same size, around 222-226 mm long with a 95 mm long butt. Then what's the divergence?

At one.05 kg, the Type 67 was 2/3 the weight of the 1.8 kg Blazon 64. Eventually the even smaller (500 1000) Type 77 pistol would be developed, using the same round.

"Wow, that sounds like a distinctive pistol," you might say. The motion-picture show lampshades this, with Dan'due south sloppy employ of it leading to another grapheme finding out about Dan'southward nefarious secret. My guess is in that location aren't too many silenced Chinese Type 67 pistols in Great United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, especially around 2004.

(Much credit goes to Modern Firearms, one of the few sites with plenty of good data about the Type 64 and Type 67, as well equally plenty of other guns!)

Dan besides briefly uses a Luger P08 Arms, although he just handles it and lets a badass Colm Meaney disassemble and reassemble it while drunk on some Irish gaelic single malt whisky.

Wonder why they thought he'd make a good Bond. Hm.

Do Yourself a Favor and…

Buy the moving-picture show.

The Quote

My favorite exchange happens when Dan ("XXXX") gets a telephone call from Dragan, a sadistic Serbian gangster who put the evil center on him. XXXX, having merely stolen his buddy Gene's pistol, is feeling more than empowered than usual…

XXXX: (into telephone) Dragan?
Dragan: (through phone) Aye?
XXXX: I've got an thought… Why don't yous come 'round for breakfast? I'll squeeze some orange juice and grind some java and we tin talk almost this like adults. How's that sound?
Dragan: Sounds very hospitable.
XXXX: Practise you know where I live?
Dragan: No.
XXXX: Well, fuck off then. (hangs up)

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