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Daniel Craig Hints astatine "Knives Out" Sequel
The sanction is wrong, precise wrong.
That is if you person been pronouncing Dainel Craig’s surname arsenic Cregg.
“I person a bony to prime with you,” the Knives Out prima told Stephen Colbert during the Dec. 2 occurrence of The Late Show. “Say my name.”
While the big pronounced the English star’s sanction correctly, Craig revealed Colbert has been pronouncing his sanction incorrectly each clip helium has appeared connected the show.
“Six times” Craig added, earlier adding, “I don’t accidental Colbert” with an accent connected the T.
Once more, helium repeated, “Daniel Cregg…Daniel Cr-ayg.”
And this time, Colbert got it. “I perceive the difference,” helium noted. “That is subtle, and I apologize. Daniel Cregg, f--k that guy, Daniel Cr-ayg, I’m truthful atrocious delight judge my apology.”
And to marque it up to Craig, helium suggested that the histrion accidental his sanction wrong, with a dense t: “You tin telephone maine Colbert if you want.”
Once they got to the bottommost of Craig’s name, Colbert shared the past down the soundless t of his ain moniker.
“Honest to God, my dada had been a Colbert, but helium wanted to beryllium a Colbert but helium was a inferior truthful his begetter says to him, ‘If you accidental your sanction the French way, they’ll deliberation you don’t privation to beryllium my son,’” helium explained. “So, my begetter said to each of america successful the family, and determination were 11 of us, helium said, ‘You tin beryllium Colbert oregon Colbert immoderate you want.’ And immoderate of america are Colbert and immoderate of america are Colbert and a batch of america are lawyers, truthful the gag is it’s the instrumentality steadfast of Colbert, Colbert, Colbert and Colbert.”
And that’s the extremity of Daniel and Stephen’s sanction game.
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