Daniel Craig

Film website Rotten Tomatoes has scored the first interview with Daniel Craig since Bond 22 started filming 10 days ago. The following extracts contain some spoilers, so if you don’t want to know anything about Bond 22’s plot, better not read this article.

First of all, according to Craig, there is no title yet, not even behind the scenes. When Rotten Tomatoes suggested in an ironic way "The Lady Expects Too Much" as title, Daniel Craig laughingly asked, "Really, is that the rumour? That’s quite good. I should write that one down…"

The more interesting part of the advance publication of the full interview focused on the plot. Craig said, "It carries on from where the last one stopped. We set up in the last one that there’s this organisation that is destabilising the world’s economy because they want to take it over, and that’s his job now, to go out and stop them." This statement corresponds with statements from an old Daniel Craig interview in 2006. Back then, he said, "We have a group of people in Casino Royale that are led by Le Chiffre; at least we think they’re led by Le Chiffre. They’re trying to destabilize the world with money, they’re using money as the tool… They don’t care who they kill or who they displace. And we don’t know who the top man is yet. Hopefully we’ll find out who that is in the next Bond movie." Quite.

Matthieu Amalric

Craig also commented on the casting of Mathieu Amalric as Dominic Greene: "I’m over the moon with his casting. I met him very briefly on Munich but I didn’t do any scenes with him. Now I’ve got to know him on Bond 22 […] and thought it was amazing." When asked if Amalric was going to play the heavily cited Algerian boyfriend of Vesper, Craig stated, "There is a connection there, yes…"

Also, Craig revealed that he did not have to shoot any action scenes so far. "We start that next week so I’m sure I’m going to be walking wounded for the next six months from next week." He feels very happy about the choice of Marc Forster as director: "The fact that Marc Forster’s come in to direct it just makes my job a lot easier. He’s taken care of a lot of stuff that I just don’t have to think about and I’m just getting on with acting."

And, he says, the pressure of taking on the mantle of James Bond gets no easier. "I don’t know if I’ll ever feel comfortable with it," he said, "I mean, it’s James Bond. I don’t know if I’ll ever get to that place and get Zen about it; it’s not that kind of role. But I’m enjoying what we’ve shot so far and I’m planning to enjoy as much as I can of this filming process. Because, otherwise, why do it? I think the pressure is plain to see. We’ve got to make it as good if not better than the last one, and that’s the thing that matters. I don’t think you can say there’s ever less pressure when you make a $200 million movie." Check out Rotten Tomatoes for the full article.

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