Daniel Craig's Name Isn't Pronounced the Way You Think It Is, and He Wasn't Shy About Correcting Stephen Colbert

The actor addressed his name mispronunciation on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' on Dec. 2

Daniel Craig has "a bone to pick" with Stephen Colbert!

While appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday, Dec. 2, the actor, 55, corrected the host Colbert, 60, on the right way to say his surname after several years of him mispronouncing it on the show.

“I have a bone to pick with you,” Craig told Colbert, 60, as he appeared on the show to promote his new film Queer. “You have a bone to pick with me?” Colbert responded.

“Yeah, six shows — say my name,” Craig requested to Colbert. The host then said the actor’s name, to which Craig said, “Oh now you’re doing it right.”

“Why, did I say, ‘Creg?’ ” Colbert asked. “Yes. It’s a diphthong — I don’t say ‘Colbet,’ ” Craig replied as the audience laughed.

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According to Cambridgedictionary.com, a diphthong is a grammatical term for a word with “a vowel sound in which the tongue changes position to produce the sound of two vowels.”

Colbert then said, attempting to pronounce the actor's name correctly, "Daniel … Craig — did I not say Daniel Craig?”

“ ‘Daniel Creg’ … you don’t hear the difference?” Craig replied. Colbert then asked the actor, "One more time please?”

After Craig repeated the mispronunciation and correct pronunciation of his name a couple of times to Colbert, he said, “Ooh, I hear the difference. That is subtle.”

“It’s not—,” Craig argued before Colbert finally acknowledged his mistake.

“That is a subtle difference and I apologize,” he said. “I don’t want you — Daniel Craig — mad at me." He added, " 'Daniel Creg’ ... f— that guy!” as Craig laughed and the pair shook hands.

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Craig’s appearance on the show comes after he shared his opinion on the release of another one of his upcoming films, the Knives Out sequel Wake Up Dead Man, in an interview earlier this month.

Speaking with Variety, the actor said he thinks the movie should stay in theaters for longer than one week before being released on Netflix.

"Hopefully, Netflix will push it out a bit, and people will get to see it," Craig said. "The people I speak to — the fans, I suppose — all they want to do is take their families and go see it at the cinemas. That’s all they want to do. Hopefully we can give them that experience.”

Craig returns as detective Benoit Blanc in the upcoming Knives Out movie opposite costars Josh O'Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Kerry Washington, Glenn Close, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis and Josh Brolin.