“It’s as adult as you can possibly make it. This is adult drama. I grew up, as we ****ing all did, watching ‘The Godfather’ and that, movies that were made for adults, Craig tells the magazine. “And this is a $100 million R-rated movie. Nobody makes those anymore. And Fincher, he’s not holding back. They’ve given him free rein. He showed me some scenes recently, and my hand was over my mouth, going, ‘Are you ****ing serious?’”
But even more intriguing, Craig seems to intimate that what Fincher has put together isn’t simply gratuitous but gains its power from what’s implied rather than shown. “...it’s not that he simply showed me footage that was horribly graphic,” Craig says. “It was stuff that was happening, or had happened. And somehow you don’t see it.”