![]() “I’m not like that.” And I really don’t think he is. “You know me,” Craig says at one point, when we briefly touch on the glamour and privilege that attends celebrity and success. He’s conscious, too, of not wanting to be regarded as what a friend of mine calls a Charlie Big-Time Bananas - someone who’s up themselves a swank. An hour spent analysing his career in the company of a journalist is not Daniel Craig’s idea of a good time.Īnd he knows that an actor discussing his technique in public comes across as an onanistic ninny. In truth, he’s not that comfortable talking to the press about his professional life. In my experience, Craig loathes - I don’t think that’s too strong a word - talking to the press about his private life. But with a few encounters under our belts, he’s good company, a serious talker when the mood takes him, with a martini-dry sense of humour. On first meeting, he can be wary and less than garrulous not quite a blunt instrument but bracingly no-nonsense. I’ve interviewed Craig before and crossed paths with him on a number of occasions. We talk over a post-shoot pint, well earned by him given that the previous day he had finished his last scene on the forthcoming Skyfall, his third James Bond film. I meet Craig for this interview in June, in a North London pub closed for the afternoon so that we can photograph him for the Esquire cover. To say the least, he is a departure from the sardonic smoothie played by his predecessor, Pierce Brosnan. Cut him and, unlike his predecessors, he bleeds into the next scene, even the next film. But his eyes give him away: he is capable of love he feels pain. His Bond is hard “a blunt instrument”, Judi Dench’s spymaster calls him, echoing a description made by Bond’s inventor, Ian Fleming, 50 years earlier. ![]() Craig’s performances as Bond are muscular, kinetic, committed. A government-sponsored assassin, by turns glowering and deadpan, solemn and vicious, Daniel Craig’s James Bond is the most successful interpretation of MI6’s least-secret agent since Sean Connery retired his chest rug.
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