Interview with Daniel Craig
IGN Movies was at the Quantum of Solace set last week.
Here’s what Bond himself had to say about the ‘Quantum of Solace’.
Who was the first person to suggest the title?
Daniel Craig: It’s been going around for a while, we’ve been discussing it quite a while. We could have found a nippy title – we had plenty of suggestions that would look good on the poster. But we made a lot of effort last time around to take the film to a new place, and we want to continue to do that. So this title is meant to confuse a little. It’s meant to make you wonder, and that’s what we want – we want people thinking as they come into the film. When we first came up with the title I wasn’t sure, but I’ve been re-reading the Fleming books, which I do when we start shooting because it passes the time. Fleming always has a very emotional line to his books, and that’s where we kind of left the last movie. It doesn’t mean that this movie is going to be some character-driven kitchen sink drama – we’re making a Bond movie – and ‘Quantum of Solace’ ties in with a very strong plot point, which I’m not going to give away at this point.
So given that should we expect an even more introspective Bond from this film?
Craig: No. There’s revenge. There’s a fight within him. There’s a need to do his job and to solve this riddle that’s been given to him, because basically everything he understood about the world has been turned upside down. All this points towards a bad organisation that’s trying to undermine the world’s economies by trying to control money around the world in a very secretive way; and he’s after them.
Did the success of the last film surprise you?
Craig: It surprised me in the sense that I’ve never been in a situation like that before, so how could I have a benchmark to go on? So it was either going to work or it wasn’t going to work, and if it worked we’d make another one and if it didn’t, I’d try something else. But we were sitting in a bar in Switzerland and the figures started coming in and we knew at that point that it was a success. It then just continued to go up and up and that’s where the surprise came.
Given that success, how much pressure do you feel this time around?
Craig: As much as before, if not a little more, because we had a major success and people reacted beyond how we thought they would. We always knew we had a great movie, but who knew that people would respond the way they did. My feeling is that we owe it to the people who saw the last movie to give them something better.
If the last film re-invigorated the franchise, where do you go from there?
Craig: We make a great movie. Simple as that.
Are there any action sequences or stunts that you are nervous about on this film?
Craig: I think I cracked most of my demons last time. We’re doing things that you won’t have seen from Bond before. We’re always going to be pushing the envelope. Special effects are going to play a part in this movie, but they are going to be as they were before – about the plot. We’re not re-creating cities here, we’re going to locations. I’m pushing myself as hard as I can. But I’m not going to admit to you if I’m nervous or not!
You’ve got a plaster on your thumb – is that a stunt injury?
Craig: Might be. It’s not a very impressive one is it? I got it doing rope work. I’ve got others, but I can’t show you them.
How did you prepare physically this time around then?
Craig: I trained very differently this time around. Last time I bulked up and got big to make him look like someone who literally just dropped out of the Navy and was Special Services. But I needed to get fitter in a different way because I’m doing an awful lot of physical activity. I’ve got to get myself, and I don’t want to use these words because it sounds awful, but cardio-vascularly fit. I need to last the course on this. We’re doing six-day weeks at the moment, and I’m doing dialogue scenes on this stage and as soon as I finish I change costumes and run up to the 007 stage and I’m swinging from ropes. So I have to keep myself in as best shape as I can because I’ve got to do this for six months.
Are you enjoying working opposite your new Bond girl Gemma Arterton?
Craig: It’s great – she’s a rising star and we’re very lucky to get her now because she’s on her way up. We’ve shot quite a lot of stuff with her already – she’s got a great part in the film.
Any chance you’ll wear the Casino Royale swimming trunks in this one?
Craig: I’m not going to put those trunks on ever again!
Why not?
Craig: No reason. But there will be a certain amount of nudity in this movie I’m sure.
Do you think these films are becoming too violent to be deemed family entertainment?
Craig: I think that’s a big question really. With the violence in the last movie it was very important that we showed the consequences of it. We took it on very responsibly – glamourising violence is wrong, and we’re taking that onto this movie. Look at From Russia With Love though – it’s no more violent than that. We take it very seriously, but it’s James Bond – they are violent films about violent people. That’s what the stories are about.
How many Bond films would you like to make?
Craig: As long as they are working, I’ll keep on making them.
Source: IGN.com
Source: ComingSoon.net
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