Daniel Craig called one of his James Bond movies a “terrible nightmare.”
The actor, who played a British spy in the 007 series from 2006 to 2021, has revealed how “difficult” it was to film Quantum of Solace after the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike. I reminisced.
“What a nightmare,” he said. He spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the film. In a new interview published Saturday.
“[Writer] Paul Haggis gave us the script, but then he left and joined the picket line, and we didn't have a script because we didn't have a scriptwriter,'' the 56-year-old actor explained.
“We probably shouldn’t have actually started production, but we did.”
“I ended up writing a lot of that movie,” Craig said, because WGA rules allowed some actors to write scenes in collaboration with the director.
“But there are some great stunt sequences in it, and I still have the pin to prove it. I mean, in that sense, it's got a lot of great stuff in it, but it's not fully functional. I didn’t,” he added.
“The storytelling wasn't there. That's the terrible lesson. Starting a movie without a script is just… not a good idea.”
The “Glass Onion: Knives Out Mystery” actor previously revealed that he suffered several injuries while filming “Quantum of Solace,” which further delayed production.
“The physical side of the movie was really the job. That's what I had to do. I trained and learned how to fight, but in a way my brain wasn't working,” he says. spoke. told the Los Angeles Times In 2022.
“I put much more effort into the creative side of the film than the physical side of it.”
Craig ended his role as Bond in 2021 with No Time to Die.
In the film, the actor's character was dramatically killed off when he sacrificed himself to a deadly missile attack to save the woman he loved and the daughter he had just learned was a father.
Craig said he chose to end his legendary run as Bond there “to move on”.
“I don’t want to go back. I'd be very lucky if they got back to me, but the truth is, I need to move on from there,” he told the LA Times.
“The sacrifices he made in the movie were for love, and there's no greater sacrifice. So it seemed like a good thing it ended the way it did.”
