Daniel Craig's character in Layer Cake

Question

In the movie Layer Cake, Daniel Craig stars as a drug dealer. His name is not mentioned throughout the movie. He was even credited as "XXXX", he also said near the end, that if you knew his name, you would be as smart as him.

Anybody here has any idea about what his name was in the movie?

Answer 1

The character played by Daniel Craig, had no name in the movie. The movie, is based on a book of the same name Layer Cake, and the protagonist (character played by Daniel Craig) has no name there too. He is Anonymous in the book.

If you read this interview of the director, Matthew Vaughan, you would know that they gave a name to this anonymous character, for the movie. Quoting the below part from that interview

It's an interesting character for him to play, isn't it? This man with no name...

In the book he's just anonymous. But in the script it's really weird. We didn't want to give him a name, but you have to call him something in the script, so he became "XXXX". The last line of the book is the last line of the movie. The studio wanted to cut it, but I told them it was really important. The fact that he doesn't have a name is what makes him so different. He's Clint Eastwood, riding in on a horse, he doesn't give anything away. He's a chameleon.