Daniel Craig is understood for taking part in British undercover agent James Bond in a handful of flicks launched throughout the final twenty years.
Craig remembered how one movie specifically was a “f—ing nightmare” to place collectively because the trade succumbed to the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike.
The 56-year-old motion star was driving a wave of success after receiving important popularity of his Bond debut within the 2006 hit, “Casino Royale,” however left critics and followers with extra questions than solutions after “Quantum of Solace” was launched in 2008.
Craig advised The Hollywood Reporter that “Quantum of Solace” was a “difficult second album” because of the author’s strike, a number of filming areas, and lack of constant storytelling.
“F—ing nightmare. Paul Haggis did a pass 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,” he remembered. “We most likely ought to by no means have gone and began manufacturing, however we did.
“I ended up writing a lot of that film — I probably shouldn’t really say, and I do not want a credit, it’s fine — but we were in that state because that’s what we’re allowed to do. I was allowed to work.”
He added, “Under WGA rules we were allowed to work with a director and write scenes. But there’s some amazing stunt sequences in that, and I’m still bearing the pins to prove it, so in that sense there’s a lot of great stuff in it, but it just didn’t quite work. The storytelling wasn’t there. And that’s the abject lesson: going to start a movie without a script, it’s just… not a good idea.”
Craig grew up eager to play the beloved spy, however had no concept his dream would come to fruition.
He likened the thought of taking part in Bond someday to portraying “Batman and Spider-Man, but you can’t play them all,” Craig mentioned.
“I wanted to be all of those people. But when I was actually acting, it didn’t enter my thoughts. I thought that was the last thing that would ever happen to me.”
When he was first provided the position, he turned it down out of concern — and lack of a script.
“There wasn’t a script at the time, so again, my arrogance was unbelievable, but I just was like, ‘Well, until I see a script, I couldn’t possibly make a decision.’ And it was fear, exactly what you’re talking about, of that thing and many others, how it would flip my life,” Craig mentioned.
“I was making a pretty good living at the time, so if I’d spent my life doing what I was doing at that time, I would’ve been more than happy. But it really was one of those things where — I mean to be typecast as James Bond? Boo-hoo.”
An opportunity assembly with a former Bond legend helped information him towards his future.
“I sat next to Pierce [Brosnan] at an event and talked to him about it, and he just went, ‘Go for it. Just go for it,’” Craig remembered. “He had nothing really else to say. Which I took to heart. I went for it.”
