“We didn’t have a script,” Craig conceded. Quantum Of Solace, Craig’s second Bond film, begins moments after the action ends in Casino Royale, but quickly collapses into a zany plot about Bolivian water resources. And that’s what I instinctively want to aim for.”īut it didn't quite go to plan.
“And the biggest ideas are love and tragedy and loss. 'The biggest ideas are the best,” he told me. “But in Britain, it really fucking matters and we nailed it.”įrom there, Craig says he had a sense of where he thought his Bond story should go. She acted also in Casino Royale (1967) as a Tall Blonde. “I don’t really quite understand it,” Craig says. She was a British model and actress who was known for her roles in Hammer horror films. So I know why they don’t fucking like me.”īut, as we now know, Casino Royale went on to be a massive hit and it remains the highest-grossing Bond film to date. I intellectualised all of it.” He said, “I know why they don’t like me. Because the whole thing of ‘He’s not right’. When he recounted this moment to GQ contributor Sam Knight, he started to cry. Then the opening credits rolled, the music played and the crowd cheered.
“I went, ‘Oh.’ I was like, ‘Oh, fuck,’” he said. Even as far along as the Casino Royale premiere in 2006, Craig was feeling the nerves.Īt the beginning, of the film, the audience started to laugh and in his seat Craig started to panic.
