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For Daniel Craig, filming his sophomore James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, felt like a “difficult second album.”
The actor, 56, opened up about his experience working on the 2008 action film in a recent interview on The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast, noting that it was a “f—ing nightmare” on set due to the 2007/2008 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike.
“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,” Craig explained. “We probably should never have gone and started production, but we did.”
As a result of the strike, Craig said he “ended up writing a lot of that film,” adding, “We were in that state because that’s what we’re allowed to do. I was allowed to work. Under WGA rules we were allowed to work with a director and write scenes.”
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Despite taking pride in the film’s “amazing stunt sequences,” Craig feels as if the movie “didn’t quite work” as a whole. “The storytelling wasn’t there,” he stated. “And that’s the abject lesson: going to start a movie without a script, it’s just not a good idea.”
Coming off the success and high reviews of his debut Bond outing, 2006’s Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace was not as well received, with a 63 percent fresh critics score and 58 percent fresh audience score on Rotten Tomatoes (as of December 2024).
The series managed to bounce back with a 92 percent Rotten Tomatoes critics score for 2012’s Skyfall. While 2015’s Spectre once again dropped in reviews, Craig’s final James Bond film, 2021’s No Time to Die, scored an 83 percent critics rating and 88 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes (as of December 2024).
Quantum of Solace picked up with Craig’s Agent 007 after the death of his Casino Royale love interest, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). While seeking revenge for his lost love, the British spy seeks to foil a villainous plan set in motion by the organization responsible for her death.
Craig further shared more memories from his time as James Bond on the THR podcast, revealing that he asked to have his version of the character killed off shortly after Casino Royale hit theaters.
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“We’re in Berlin, I’m in the back of a car with [producer] Barbara Broccoli, and I said to her, ‘How many of these have I got to do?’ Because I genuinely didn’t know; I never take much notice of these things. I’m terrible,” he shared. “And she said, ‘Four,’ or something. I can’t remember what she said. But I went, ‘Can I kill him off at the end?’ And she just paused and went, ‘Yeah.’ So she kept her word. I had to do five.”
Craig’s Bond dies in an island explosion at the end of No Time to Die, but not before his love interest, Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), confirms that her daughter is his.
When asked on the podcast who he thinks should fill his shoes as James Bond, Craig stated: “Sean Connery, and I don’t give a s—.” (Connery, who died at age 90 in 2020, was the first actor to portray the character and starred in seven Bond films through the ‘60s and ‘80s.)
