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For Daniel Craig, filming his sophomore James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, felt like a “troublesome second album.”
The actor, 56, opened up about his expertise engaged on the 2008 motion movie in a current interview on The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast, noting that it was a “f—ing nightmare” on set as a result of 2007/2008 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike.
“Paul Haggis did a cross on the script, then he went off and joined a picket line, and we didn’t have writers, so we didn’t have a script,” Craig defined. “We most likely ought to by no means have gone and began manufacturing, however we did.”
On account of the strike, Craig stated he “ended up writing numerous that movie,” including, “We had been in that state as a result of that’s what we’re allowed to do. I used to be allowed to work. Underneath WGA guidelines we had been allowed to work with a director and write scenes.”
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Regardless of taking satisfaction within the movie’s “wonderful stunt sequences,” Craig feels as if the film “didn’t fairly work” as a complete. “The storytelling wasn’t there,” he said. “And that’s the abject lesson: going to begin a film with out a script, it’s simply not a good suggestion.”
Coming off the success and excessive critiques of his debut Bond outing, 2006’s On line casino Royale, Quantum of Solace was not as nicely obtained, with a 63 p.c contemporary critics rating and 58 p.c contemporary viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes (as of December 2024).
The sequence managed to bounce again with a 92 p.c Rotten Tomatoes critics rating for 2012’s Skyfall. Whereas 2015’s Spectre as soon as once more dropped in critiques, Craig’s remaining James Bond movie, 2021’s No Time to Die, scored an 83 p.c critics ranking and 88 p.c viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes (as of December 2024).
Quantum of Solace picked up with Craig’s Agent 007 after the dying of his On line casino Royale love curiosity, Vesper Lynd (Eva Inexperienced). Whereas looking for revenge for his misplaced love, the British spy seeks to foil a villainous plan set in movement by the group answerable for her dying.
Craig additional shared extra reminiscences from his time as James Bond on the THR podcast, revealing that he requested to have his model of the character killed off shortly after On line casino Royale hit theaters.
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“We’re in Berlin, I’m at the back of a automotive with [producer] Barbara Broccoli, and I stated to her, ‘What number of of those have I acquired to do?’ As a result of I genuinely didn’t know; I by no means take a lot discover of this stuff. I’m horrible,” he shared. “And he or she stated, ‘4,’ or one thing. I can’t bear in mind what she stated. However I went, ‘Can I kill him off on the finish?’ And he or she simply paused and went, ‘Yeah.’ So she saved her phrase. I needed to do 5.”
Craig’s Bond dies in an island explosion on the finish of No Time to Die, however not earlier than his love curiosity, Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), confirms that her daughter is his.
When requested on the podcast who he thinks ought to fill his sneakers as James Bond, Craig said: “Sean Connery, and I don’t give a s—.” (Connery, who died at age 90 in 2020, was the primary actor to painting the character and starred in seven Bond movies via the ‘60s and ‘80s.)
