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I don't think it's anything new, but DC is featured in Sept 2020 Issue of L'officiel.
I know the Cr look gets a lot of love, but I think his look at the casino table was oddly inconsistent and his hair was a little too contemporary for 2006 and perhaps hasn't aged well. But physically, he was perfect.
I like the more military haircut in SF though it is divisive. But he did appear thicker in SP than the previous films.
I think CR (in parts), QOS and NTTD are Craig's best looks. In particular, the latter film looks to be Craig at his most physically attractive.
NTTD also gets my vote on the looks department, @Pierce2Daniel.
The event has been rescheduled to 20 October.
The wardrobe for Quantum was great but Craig's hairstyle didn't suit Bond, especially that picture you chose @Pierce2Daniel he looks better in the end in the desert scene or during the roof top chase, when he's a bit battered and his hair's messy I reckon
Skyfall he looked alright, he was in great shape as always like but the hairstyle was a bit short even though it suited him
I think Daniel looked his age a bit during Spectre, not to sound harsh but he did look a bit past it. It didn't help that he was injured through most of the shoot
That's why NTTD is a bit of a shock really because Daniel looks really young and honestly like he could carry on the role for another film at least. Not a fan of the Matera brown suit though, it looks cheap and stuffy. He looks cool in the pic @Univex added
If I wasn't a Bond fan and you told me No Time To Die came a couple of years after Quantum, I'd believe you. Daniel looks the best he's ever looked as Bond, I'm glad he seems to be going off in style
Looks-wise: 1. CR; 2. SF; 3. SP; 4. QoS (they could not replicate the hairstyle in CR). BUT the reverse is true Style-wise:
1. QoS. His best look of the series. Three outfits that rocked: the black polo with cream Levis, couple with dark brown desert boots; similarly, the polo with a pair of relaxed fit jeans; and the black shawl cardigan with a white dress shirt and light khaki slacks, again coupled with brown suede desert boots. Craig also rocked a dark brown suit with a gold tie. His navy suit at the Eco project meeting wasn't too shabby either.
2. SP. Craig's entire wardrobe in Morrocco kicks ass. The navy polo with grayish chinos and light suede desert boots and tan suede jacket; he switches to a light blue button-down shirt for the train ride; then to top it off: the white dinner jacket and then the Cucinelli light brown linen blazer with chinos, white dress shirt, and rust-colored knit tie. All of it works. His winter apparel works, too. And we see Bond at home, in a nice brown striped robe.
3. SF. The "enjoying death" outfit is a classic. Craig also looks bad ass in the barbour jacket, coupled with black jeans and a blue crew neck sweater. The gray suit (no matter its tight fit) is a classic, as well. And who doesn't love the peacoat when he follows Patrice? Overall, the clothes worked, just not enough variety for me.
3. CR. The wardrobe for this film has never been a hit with me. The Madagascar outfit barely works. He wears a navy polo with flair chinos. Ugh. While recuperating, there's a brief scene where Bond is wearing black sweatpants, a gray sweater and (wait for it) white trainers. Dreadful. And I'm not sure what they were thinking with the blue long-sleeve polo with blue sweatpants in Venice. But not all is lost: his black casual dress shirt, with taupe dress pants, at the Ocean Club is perfect evening attire in the Bahamas. He arrives nicely, as well: tight, white, short-sleeved dress shirt and gray trousers. He rocks the tux in Montenegro.
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I would say that his look in CR is quite schizophrenic. Sometimes he looks very good. Arguably the best he has looked in the series......
I would say it is emphatically CR, but he looks kinda rough in some scenes in CR! Especially in those scenes at the casino table. He seriously looks puffy and a bit knackered. I suppose it fits his interpretation of Bond as more of a brutish thug. But something about him that is a little ugly.
I think Martin Campbell did him a disservice here. Meanwhile, Cary Fukunaga is really selling the sex with NTTD. I think NTTD may be the Bond film where Craig looks the hunkiest he's looked during his tenure. I mean.....Wow.....What a babe 😍😍😍😍😍
But whose idea was to put him in this godawful coat!!!! It's hideous! Couldn't we get another leather jacket like in CR or SF? He looks so good in a leather jacket!!!
For the most part I agree with you assessment. If I had to pick what I think is his absolute best, I would say when he has broken into M’s apartment and also when he and Verper are having dinner following the card game. His look is on point in these two scenes; in large part because he has visible eyebrows! Lol.
Of all of the stylistic choices in DC's first four films (I can't judge NTTD fully until I see the film), these are my top 5, and I have emulated each:
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This would have been cool to do, though the problem is that scheduling meant this wasn’t feasible given the film was shot in chronological order. For example all the scenes with him having a beard were shot first so that the rest of the production would be him consistently clean shaven. They would have had to halt production at one point to let his hair grow out, and that would have been time lost. Or they would shoot with him in longer hair first, but then wait for his beard to grow out for the early sections of the film.
But I agree it would have been cool if they had done what you suggest.
Can't argue with those; I think he's at his most stylish there, although I might posibly swap out the QoS biking outfit for the Skyfall climax Barbour look: white jeans are maybe a bit David Coulthard :D
That Morroco arrival gear is great actually, isn't it? Sf and Sp didn't really have him put a foot wrong (apart from the tight suits perhaps).
Weirdly, for a style icon Bond actually isn't stylish very often! Connery was, and Craig was, and that's about it! :D
True, although by the looks of the trailers (so hopefully not spoilerish!) NTTD actually is doing that to some extent.
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https://collider.com/daniel-craig-othello-marsha-stephanie-blake-interview/
As for working with Craig in particular, Blake was surprised by how nervous he seemed in her audition:
“What was wonderful about him, first of all, my audition with him, I don’t know why, but I went in and I’d done a bunch of Shakespeare and I was pretty confident with my Shakespeare stuff – and I don’t know if he did this on purpose; I should ask him at some point – he seemed so nervous that I ended up being not nervous. Does that make sense? He was sweating! We started doing the scene, he started speaking and he was speaking so low that I was like, ‘What? What are you saying? I can’t hear you.’ I was like, ‘Are you nervous? You need to speak up or something.’ And I found out later on [casting director] Jack [Doulin] was impressed by the fact that I wasn’t intimidated by Daniel and I was yelling at him right away to speak up.”
Whether you’re looking at Craig’s run as James Bond or the confidence he brings to most of his big screen roles, it could be easy to assume that Craig tackles everything he does with a degree of assuredness. Whether the sweat and nerves in this instance were manufactured or not, things wound up panning out great for both Blake and Craig on Othello.
“Maybe he was trying to make me feel less nervous, but can he manufacture sweat? I don’t know! Maybe it was a Shakespeare thing? Who knows? All I know is I went in there and what I saw was somebody who was like a deer caught in headlights a little bit, a little panicky and I immediately tried to make him laugh by yelling at him, and then we had the best audition. So we went from this very big audition and then [director] Sam Gold wanted us to do it as intimate, he was like, ‘Pretend like you’re in a movie and you’re just talking to each other right here. Don’t make it theatrically big, make it movie big.’ And we ended up doing this really emotional crazy scene like right up on each other and there you go. The rest is history. But he’s lovely. He’s just fun to be around. He’d be backstage playing his guitar and none of that big confident, as you say, James Bond personality at all. Except for when he was on stage and he had to be Iago.”
Campbell definitely replayed that shot from GE in CR. Both times were when we saw each Bond inside a casino for the first time. Just uploaded this for fun:
CR: Do have a soft spot for casual Bond during the Miami sequence, and the leather jacket is real nice.
QoS: Bolvia brown suit,
SF: Casual Bond again, the Scotland Barbour look.
SP: Brown morocco desert suit.
NTTD: So far, the commando outfit. I have the N Peal jumper, it is amazing.
I must say, Brosnan looks more *Bondian* by traditional standards. But it's undeniable that Craig has more swagger. That cheeky grin and hand in pocket. It's better than Brosnan's blank catwalk-model.
It's very interesting that both Campbell and Meheux emulated the shot from GE in CR. I have to say, the set in GE is far superior than the CR one....
I've also got to say that @TripAces is right, Craig's look in QOS is his best. I think Louise Frogley did the best costumes of the Craig era. I remember hearing that she was directly inspired by Steve McQueen...which works perfectly for Craig.
He never looked better than the Haiti scenes...
Also, Craig just suits looking roughed-up and bloody. Something that I think he appreciated, as he was covered in scars in CR, QOS and now NTTD. It looks as though Sam Mendes was of the opinion that Bond shouldn't look too battered.
I have to say that I also quite like the buzzcut he had in SF. It's certainly a departure - especially when you think of Connery's look back in the 1960's. Though I hazard that was most likely the *point*. It reminds me a little of Brad Pitt in Mr & Mrs Smith.
It's pretty edgy and iconalastic. Plus it suits his more militaristic and brutish style. I wouldn't have minded if they kept it. I know he was supposed to look a bit knackered with the stubble - and at times he does - but i like it...
It also helps that the suits in SF are the best that DC ever wore.