Bond, James Bond is back and setting records in the United Kingdom.
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“I’ve just been allowed to be creatively involved with these films from the very beginning and I’ve continued to be allowed to do it with this, so thankfully we’ve just got the most incredible team around us and we figure it out”, he said.
Fellow “Spectre” cast Naomie Harris also agreed with Bellucci and told The Independent that the actress should be called a “Bond Woman” because of her age.
“It is magic”, she said.
But he said of his Spectre return: “It feels very familiar and it’s exciting to be working with friends and people I’ve known now for five years. I think they love playing with that line, but I think neither of them would ever cross it”.
“I think it’s the character of James Bond – the locations, the handsome women”. He’s very smart and very witty.
With Daniel recently saying he’d rather “slash [his] wrists” than film another Bond movie, talk has naturally turned to whether Idris Elba, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy or someone else could be the next 007.
As Prince Harry arrived to chat to Craig ahead of the film screening, Weisz kept hold of his hand throughout. “So, anybody who wants to try, I say good luck to them”.
Extensively adulated by pundits, the film is coordinated by Sam Mendes and sees Daniel Craig play the smooth, Martini-drinking MI6 spy 007 in what is Bond’s 24th trip subsequent to the first – “Dr. No” – in 1962. In this latest Bond in particular, action is everything. “There’s a lot of prescient subject matter in the recent Bond films”. “It’s hard work to be iconic and I’m not quite sure whether I’ve achieved the proper icon”.
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Cineworld’s largest screen seven was re-branded as “007” for the special event – which saw the movie shown shortly after a London premiere attended by royalty. It’s all about ‘Who am I?’ instead of ‘What am I doing?’
