Bond is back in the saddle again

DANIEL Craig fantasised about being a cowboy when he was a boy, and for longer than he ever dreamed of becoming James Bond.

The 43-year-old says a life-long love of pretending drew him into acting and he still gets star-struck.

In between Bond movies, he is starring in Jim Sheridan’s next movie, Dream House, which opens in October and on the set of which he fell in love with co-star, Rachel Weisz. He is in the bizarre new movie Cowboys and Aliens, produced by Steven Spielberg for which he was taught to ride a horse by John Wayne’s grandson, Brendan Wayne.