And you go through the eight people and you put your hand up as you talk through each person and ultimately everybody has to be unanimous in their decision, if you see what I mean. Of the “very democratic” selection process, the director explained: “You sit around a table… It was myself and the producers, casting director, etc. “So I just thought about that for a minute and apart from that, absolutely it was always him.”Ĭampbell said that Craig had beat out eight other actors, including a young Henry Cavill, to be Brosnan’s replacement. “Daniel was obviously tougher and ruggeder, but he wasn’t a traditional handsome guy. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian) and his girlfriend. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. “All handsome guys, all sexy, all very attractive to women and so forth,” Campbell added. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda, where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan). “He was really a superb actor, there’s no doubt about that,” the New Zealand director said of Craig in a recent interview with The Daily Express, but “it was the fact that with people like Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan was that they were all traditional looking Bonds”. One of the British theatres most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
