Look at people like Seth Rogen and people who make those movies, a lot of that is improvisation. Those writers are out there, but they’re rare. Really, really, really good gags are few and far between. They’re not the kind of movies I want to make. We’re always asking: is this real? Then the humour can happen. Especially when you’ve got someone like Sam Mendes at the helm who is the truth police – and I’m the truth police too. There was more humour in ‘Skyfall’ than in ‘Casino Royale’ or ‘Quantum of Solace’. “Where are the gadgets?” Before it hasn’t felt right, and it’s not like we’ve made this one heavily into gadgets, but we’ve snuck a lot of stuff in. Everyone’s been banging on to me about the gadgets. We’ve got the character of Moneypenny back, and Q, and now Ralph Fiennes is playing M, so it was, like: right, let’s get all of them into the story. It felt completely the right thing to do. 'So if that was bells on, there’s more of everything in this film. What the fuck are we going to do? Once we started, we realised we couldn’t think about “Skyfall”. Then we had to do another one – which for all of us, the director Sam Mendes included, felt incredibly daunting. ‘There you go, that’s perfect! The complicated answer, without me having to think of some clever line, is that “Skyfall” did really well and broke all sorts of records and was a massive success. So how would you describe this new Bond movie, ‘Spectre’? Same bells, different tune? You described ‘Skyfall’ as ‘Bond with bells on’. Styling by Gareth Scourfield ‘Am I getting my kit off in this movie? Of course I am!’ They’re just too big.’ĭaniel Craig © Photography by Paul Stuart. In fact, there was a conversation at one point that went: “Let’s film two movies back to back.” I just went: “You’re out of your fucking minds.” In the nicest possible way. But at the studio there was a real keenness to get it done as soon as possible. ‘Well, I was contracted to do another one. Just relaxing.’ĭid you always plan to play Bond for a fourth time? It's been ten years now. It’s about switching that feeling off, turning the alarm off and going to sleep. What usually happens is it’s 6am on a Sunday and I’m bolt upright in bed thinking that I’ve got to go to work. It’s fair enough, no? I just want to switch my brain off. What do you most want to do when you finish such a long shoot? We went out there and blew shit up! We did stuff that felt like a Bond movie. We filmed in Morocco for the week before the very end and that felt like the real end of the film. I wish movies ended and we all high-fived each other and said, “Yeah! We did good work!” But they tend to peter out. So you’ve just finished eight months of filming ‘Spectre’. ‘I just pray the movie is going to be great.’ So, no pressure, then. ‘God, hubris is a terrible thing in this business,’ he says, checking his enthusiasm. At one point a look of horror passes over his blue eyes. He thinks – thinks – ‘Spectre’ is going to be a stylish, classic Bond movie, and Craig is not an actor who talks bullshit. It’s the British actor’s fourth outing as Bond, and his second with the director Sam Mendes after the success of ‘ Skyfall’ – which in 2012 took over $1,000 million globally. Craig needs all the help he can get when we meet in July: just four days ago the 47-year-old finished an epic eight-month shoot for ‘ Spectre’, which saw him hopping back and forth between Pinewood Studios near London and Mexico City, Morocco, the Austrian Alps and Rome. So basically: caffeine, more caffeine and some more caffeine, with honey to soften the blow. If you want to know how James Bond – sorry, I mean Daniel Craig – starts the day, I can tell you.
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