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-Absolutely Hilarious..I laughed my head off..!
Craig is someone you have warm up to and understand his take on Bond especially if you are more into the fantasy man portrayed by Pierce Moore and Sean Connery
At first i hatted him but with time i learned to appreciate his take on Bond and respect what he is doing with the character
It occurs to me that DC on Seth Meyers last night might turn out to be his last interview as Bond (though he did say maybe when asked about doing another one).
Adorable...of course, I'm also thinking: An eight-year-old should not be watching Bond films. LOL
I think he's playing it to the hilt.
I watched my first Bond when I was 9 (TSWLM). But the earlier films were tame compared to the ones now.
Craig gets some serious brownie points for this. Lucky kid not only gets to meet Craig but he gets a free 4k watch. You just know the kid's dad is going to Jack it off him.
Blown away by Craig's near flawless performance as Bond in SP.
As Fleming worthy as we've ever seen on screen I think.
As Sean seems to have retired, DC is now my new favourite actor.
Craig now officially joins Connery as the other great Bond.
Honorable mention to Laz.
He is truly a nice guy and did NOT deserve the crap thrown his way about the "slashing wrists" comment (hyperbolic sarcasm) and the comment about punching out those who take his picture (he was talking about those who get in his face with cameras, without asking). It's no wonder he'd rather hang out with an eight-year-old fan than the news media. :)
Ha you have a point there. First one I saw on the big screen was Octopussy. Rather genteel compared to, say, Casino Royale!
I'm so happy to hear that, and welcome @timmer ;)
Saw this finally this morning, very funny indeed.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/james-bond-producers-confident-daniel-craig-will-continue-to-play-the-spy-after-spectre-we-think-we-a6725916.html
Barbs - Regardless if new studio or not were In control. "Future uncertain, but we'll make it work, Bind is our baby and were very protective of it"
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/11/james-bond-future-daniel-craig
And also Skyfall climbed a few places after receiving a few more reviews to 2nd place of 2012: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/?year=2012
I'll agree with this. Craig has gone through a process, not so much of 'becoming Bond' (this was supposed to have been the case at the end of CR, as is clearly implied by the 3-piece suit and the music), but of finding his feet within the cinematic interpretation of the character.
In SP his gritty take on 007 is not as in-your-face as he has found a balance (within the confines of the script) between his signature angst-fueled menace and the cinematic 'cool' which is so integral to the part. In SF he was given nothing to work with, other than the Macau casino sequence he has no real Bond material at all in that film.
The difference is that SP ALLOWS him to be James Bond to the full.
An that's why I too want him to return for n°25. Mendes, well I could take or leave him, but P&W definitely need to be replaced as we have had plenty of the same sort of story ideas. The writing department needs fresh blood. But DC has found his sweet spot.
The version I have on DVD, doesn't have the bit where he smashed though the glass. I think the rest is the same from memory.
Interviewing the Spectre star in London this summer, I had run through my questions for an EW cover story focused Craig reprising his role as 007 in the 24th James Bond installment that hit theaters last month. And toward the end of our conversation, I asked the recalcitrant British actor about a certain rumor that had been ricocheting across the web (thanks to Simon Pegg’s loose lips) since May: that Craig delivers a cameo as a stormtrooper in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Not only did Craig vehemently deny it at that time, he responded to my query with barely suppressed rage. “Why would I ever bother doing something like that?” Craig sputtered. “F—ing hell! Pffft. Play an extra in another movie.”
Having visited the Spectre set at England’s Pinewood Studios two months earlier, I might have pressed the issue by pointing out the relative ease with which he could have sneaked in such a performance beneath the stormtrooper’s synthetic armor. Starting last year, the Spectre production took place across various soundstages in the venerable studio facility, just yards away from where The Force Awakens was being concurrently filmed. So if Craig had wanted to make a cameo, it would have likely been as simple as cozying up to Star Wars director J.J. Abrams, slipping out of his Tom Ford suit and donning the white plastic helmet.
According to multiple sources close to The Force Awakens who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly, that is precisely what happened.
Craig does make a cameo in Star Wars VII as a stormtrooper, turning up in one of the movie’s most memorably nostalgic scenes. “He did it for sh–s and grins,” says one of the people with knowledge of the actor’s performance.
At one point in the movie, Daisy Ridley’s character Rey has been captured, and makes her maiden attempt at a Jedi mind trick.
“You will remove these restraints and leave this cell with the door open,” Rey tells the stormtrooper, played by Craig.
It is, of course, an implicit shout-out to Obi-Wan Kenobi telling a stormtrooper that “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. And the sequence prompted shouts of joyful recognition in the pre-release screening I attended earlier this week.
“I’ll tighten those restraints, scavenger scum,” Craig’s character responds, although few in the audience can be expected to register that it’s him. We only hear the actor’s clipped British diction and never see his face. (We’re not going to tell you what happens next.)
License to wear shiny white body armor approved.
I know they edited quite a bit of the stairway fight for the TV version of CR, so perhaps one of the DVD versions as well.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/daniel-craig-purity-jonathan-franzen-showtime-drama-1201705677/