British actor Daniel Craig has quit courtroom drama The Whole Truth, days before he was due to begin shooting in Boston with co-star Renee Zellweger.
Craig was set to play a district attorney and had been spotted preparing for the role at Boston’s Suffolk County Superior Court last month. Producers have halted production of the film and the start date has been moved back by three weeks.
Directed by Frozen River’s Courtney Hunt, the film was scheduled to being filming on April 14.
Craig will soon reprise his role as 007 in the 24th James Bond film, due out next year. The 46-year-old and his wife Rachel Weisz - who recently co-starred on stage in a Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s play Betrayal - were seen together on Monday at a charity gala in New York. L
