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[female reporter 1]
Ah, it's one of the most

prestigious roles in acting...

[female reporter 2]
The movie world's
most famous secret agent...

[male reporter 1]
After months of speculation,

the coveted job of being
the next 007...

[female reporter 1]
...finally been unmasked.

And his name is Craig,
Daniel Craig.

[male reporter 2]
Craig, Daniel Craig.

[male reporter 1]
Hundreds of actors
were considered

before he was chosen
to play 007.

[female reporter 3]
He beat off stiff competition
from a host of stars

including Clive Owen,
Hugh Jackman and Colin Farrell.

The 37-year-old actor
is the first blond Bond.

[male reporter 3] Blond Bond.

[male reporter 4] Are we ready
for the first blond Bond?

[male reporter 5]
He is extraordinarily different

from what we've had before.

He's got a few more lines
around the face.

He does look
a little bit moodier,

and frankly,
in the press conference,

he wasn't really
that forthcoming.

[male reporter 6]
...the somewhat lackluster
press conference.

[male reporter 7] Reporters
were distinctly underwhelmed

by 007's
official unveiling today.

Knives out already
for the new James Bond.

[male reporter 8]
Fierce criticism.

"James Bland"
is how the Mirror described...

[female reporter 4]
He hasn't even started
the role, has he?

But they're being
a bit harsh in the papers.

So we'd quite like
to have your texts

and emails and phone calls
on this as well.

[male reporter 9]
The Mirror says this morning

that the new Bond,
Daniel Craig,

lacks the charm
and the charisma needed by 007.

I must admit, he doesn't
exactly look the part.

But he might grow
into the job.

Good evening.

[Broccoli] I always felt
about Daniel,

'cause I had seen
a lot of things,

from Our Friends in the North,

and then, obviously,
Enduring Love and The Mother,

and I always felt like
whenever he was on the screen,

you couldn't watch anyone else.

You'd be interested
in the scene stuff,

but he just...
he's lit from within.

I remember the thing
that really set me,

and I went,
"It has to be him,"

was years before anything.

It was in Elizabeth,

him walking down the corridor.

And it was just like,

that is the most
charismatic person

I have ever seen
on the screen.

So it was clear that
he's a movie star,

and a great actor to boot.

[Wilson] I think to put it
in perspective,

at this time
in Daniel's career,

he wasn't thought of
as a leading man.

It was not what
people thought of.

They thought he was
a great supporting actor.

And Barbara and I
could see that
he was actually a leading man.

[Craig] I had a career.

I mean, as far as
I was concerned,

I had a really
successful career,

more successful than
I ever thought
I would be as an actor.

But I didn't have
a cool persona.

You know, Pierce had done
Remington Steele.

Um, Roger had done The Saint.

They'd done these parts

where people would go,
"Oh, that's James."

I mean, you know,
I'd done weird arty movies.

You know, it was a harder sell.

And it was like,
"I don't do many suave
and sophisticated roles.

I haven't done any."

And I didn't really
want to do it

because I thought
I wouldn't know
what to do with it.

-[man 1] Ready for rehearsal.
Quiet.
-[man 2] Action.

[Broccoli] Michael and I
really wanted him.

We only wanted him.

The only problem was that
he didn't want to do it.

[Wilson laughs]
Small detail.

[Broccoli]
And you came into the office

[laughs] and I remember
he walked in,

and I said
to Michael afterwards,

"He wants to do it."

It was the funniest thing.

It was something about
the way he had his--

He was wearing French cuffs
and they weren't done up,

and I...
just that thing, somehow,

I don't know why it was,
I said, "He wants to do it."

Michael's going,
"You think so?"

I said "Yes, he does. He does."

And we were just determined
to have him.

[Wilson] Mm-hmm.

Action.

I'm the money.

Every penny of it.

The Treasury has agreed
to stake you in the game.

"Vesper."

I do hope you gave
your parents hell for that.

[Broccoli] It was like
there wasn't anyone else.

That kept freaking
the studio out

'cause we kept saying
there is no one else.

We don't want anyone else.

And they kept trying
to get us to meet people.

[Craig] I suppose all of these
are a little like hurdles
is what I was saying to myself.

"It's all right.
What's gonna happen is,

I'm gonna get the script,
I'm gonna read it,

I'm gonna go,
'No, thanks very much,
it's really not...'"

'cause it's like... I mean,
ultimately, that's all
the actor can do really is,

be kind of, like, you know,
you read the script and you go,

"I don't like the script.
Sorry."

Little did I know. [laughs]

[Wilson] That happens
every time.

-[Craig] Yeah, yeah.
-[all laughing]

[Craig]
But it was Casino Royale.

The story was solid,
the script was really solid.

And it was just like,

I didn't imagine
the scope of it.

I didn't imagine, like,
the crane sequence,
or all of those sequences.

I had no idea about
any of that.

But I knew this story
stuck together.

You know, it just... it flew.

[Broccoli] I remember
calling you

-to tell you you got the job.
-[Craig] Yeah.

I went, "Yes?"

She just went,
"Over to you, kiddo."

[Craig] So I went
and I just grabbed
a bottle of vodka

and some vermouth,

and bought a cocktail shaker,

and went back to my apartment

and started mixing myself
vodka martinis.

You know, that's not half bad.

[Wilson] That was the first bit
of training. [laughs]

[Craig] That was
my first bit of exercise.

I think I had a hangover
for, like, three days.

[Broccoli] And then,
I sent Simon Waterston...

[Craig] Yeah,
he was my trainer, yeah.

And I literally met him
with a rollie
and a bacon sandwich.

That's his first memory of me.

I was literally
smoking a cigarette

and eating a bacon sandwich.

And I just said to him,
I said, "I want to change."

And he went, "Okay."

So we did, and then it was
seven days a week from then on.

[Wilson] The way you went
into physical training for it,

I've never seen any actor
do anything like that,

completely change
your physique.

You said, "I have to look like
I could do the role."

I mean, it's kind of amazing.

And he trained like
an Olympic athlete.

It was just fantastic.

Now, after months
of speculation,

the new James Bond
has finally been unmasked,

and his name is Craig,
Daniel Craig.

[female reporter 2] Today,
it was announced that
Brit actor, Daniel Craig,

had beaten hundreds
of competitors

to grab the role.

[female reporter 3]
But after four decades
of tall, dark and handsome,

are we really ready
for the first blond Bond?

They're saying
they wanted him...

[Broccoli] Well,
you always get press on Bond.

You get so much attention.

But the lead up was just
absolutely a roller coaster.

[female reporter 4]
You have to say, it does appear
to be casting against type.

To put it kindly, he's a bit
rough around the edges.

[Broccoli] I remember
when we did the announcement
with you,

going down the Thames,
and already it started,

because we had the Marines,

and they said he had
to wear a life jacket.

We said, "Okay,
well, he has to."

And then, you know,
it started then.

"Oh, Bond, you know,
wearing a life jacket,
how ridiculous."

[Craig] And then I was grumpy
in the press conference.

-[Broccoli] No!
-[Wilson laughs]

[Broccoli] You're never grumpy!

[Craig] Like someone asked
a question.

I was like,
"That's a stupid question."

The way I dealt with it,
it was just to be
kind of grisly.

No, I will not go into it.

-[reporter] Yes?
-Sorry.

[Broccoli] But when
the onslaught of press
against him happened

on Casino Royale,
it was brutal.

I mean, it was
way beyond any...

And it was because of what?

You know, "blond Bond?"

-Like, blond...
-[Wilson]
That was very hurtful.

[Broccoli] You know,
wasn't Roger Moore blond?

I mean, it was so irrational.

They hadn't seen him
in the role.

It's just...
It was very, very distressing,

when he was...
I remember we were
in the Bahamas

and he was
on that crane sequence,

and he was killing himself
on that crane sequence,

and we would all come back

and then it'd be
all over the news,

all over the Internet.

It's just so irresponsible

that people were
manufacturing this stuff

based on what?

Based on a couple of teenagers

who had started
an Internet thing

called "Craig Not Bond."

But all these news agencies
were treating it

as if it was like real news.

You know, it's an opinion
of a couple of kids

who hadn't seen a foot of film
that the man had shot.

[Craig] Someone said,
"You might want to go online.

There might be
a bit of an issue."

I was, like, "What?"

I did. I went online
and stayed up all night

and read everything,

'cause that's what happens
if you do that.

And it was tough.

It was really, really tough.

It was hate-filled.

And I woke up
the following morning,

and I went, "Fuck it.

I know the film's
gonna be good."

-[man] Action!
-[guns firing]

[Broccoli]
It was just horrible.

The whole crew, we were all

just brimming with anger
about it,

and trying to act very casual
around him.

But we were angry for him
'cause it was so unfair.

[Craig] Everybody else was
in a state about it.

Everybody else who was in this
was going, "God. Oh, my God,
I'm so sorry.

It must be awful,"
and like that.

I was like, "It's fine.
It's all good.

Come on, let's crack on
with it."

'Cause I knew we were doing
something really special.

[Wilson] It's a tribute
to Daniel

that he could look past it,

but a lot of people can't.

And people
who work on the film,

it affects the morale.

[Broccoli] Also,
I remember going back

to the horrendous time
in the Bahamas.

We were besieged
with paparazzi.

I mean, one guy was like...
buried himself in the sand

sort of the night before
we were gonna be on the beach.

I mean, it was insane.

It was like, you know, crazy.

And I remember Daniel
coming out of the water

and the whole crew going,
"Oh, my God."

And that was probably
the only time

when a pap shot...

Because it was a pap shot
that broke...

But then, of course,
changed the whole idea of,

you know, Daniel and what
his Bond was gonna be like.

Suddenly everybody went,
"Oh, my God!

This is the guy?
The blond guy?"

[Wilson and Broccoli]
"Who cares?"

[Craig] Look at those tits!

[Broccoli]
The whole thing changed.

And then it was
a whole different thing,

and he was suddenly
the coolest guy on Earth.

It was exciting.

You've redeemed this moment.

Bloody hell!

[Craig] These two
gave me a voice.

I mean, I asked for it.

I spoke to both of you.
I remember having
this conversation.

I said, "If you're going to
make me do this..."

I didn't say that. [laughs]

-[Broccoli] I think you did.
-[Craig laughs]

[Craig] But it was
being allowed to discuss it.

You know, Martin and I,
we argued a lot on it.

He didn't get--
He never got upset with me.

You know, we used to have
these kind of
amazing pitch battles on set.

They were never angry.
They were just like,

"I don't agree with you!"
"I don't agree with you!"

But somehow, it elevated it.

It was allowing me to see...

If I saw something that
I didn't think was right,

I would go and discuss it.

And if I was wrong, I'd go,
"Okay, I'm wrong,
I'm wrong, I'm wrong."

But if I thought it was right,
I felt like I had the power

to be able to go,
"I know I'm right about this."

And there's a couple
of scenes in the movie

which I'm really glad
I spoke up about,

-and they work.
-Action.

[Craig] But Martin
let me do that.

[Broccoli] The shower scene
which is, I think,

one of the most
beautiful scenes ever
in a movie,

you know, after that fight
in the hallway,

and in the script,
it was written that...

that, uh, Eva Green
was in her underwear,

and you were in, you know...

And Daniel said,

"No, they don't get undressed.

They're in their clothes."

And I just remember that day.

Oh, my God.

It's like there's blood
on my hands.

It's not coming off.

Here, let's see.

[Craig] It was there
in the script, but it was...

It was sort of hinted at
in the script,

and I just was all about,

if we're gonna go
with the violence,

we're gonna go
with the reality of it.

You know, it's still
a James Bond movie,

but the point of it is,
I wanted to see what happens,

the effect it has on people.

And I was like,
"She's in shock,

so she's sitting in the shower
in her clothes."

It made complete sense to me.

-You cold?
-Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Come here.

[Broccoli] I remember talking
to the composer and saying,

-"That's the moment
they fall in love."
-[Wilson] Mm.

[Broccoli] And the music
in that scene
is just so beautiful.

-David Arnold.
-[Wilson] Mm.

[Broccoli] The thing that
Daniel brought to the character
and the series,

was Bond's inner life
and the emotional life

and the complexity
of the emotional life,

which was in the books,

but never really translated
onto the screen

until he came on.

[Wilson] And we were ready
to make a shift

because we were getting
too fantastical in our series.

And Daniel's an actor

who can bring it down
to where it belongs,

make it more real,

make it more
emotionally connected

and make it more dramatic.

And we wanted
to make that change.

So we needed him to do it

because we couldn't do it
with anybody else.

[Craig] Barbara and Michael
wanted to do something,

change it for a reason.

They wanted to turn it
on its head.

And I was like,
"I'm up for that.

If that is what you want to do,
I'm up for that."

-Vodka martini.
-Shaken or stirred?

Do I look like I give a damn?

[Craig] A lot of the kind of,
the cliches, as it were,

that have become cliches
over the years

'cause they've become
Bond tropes,

I was like,
"We can't really do that.

We have to try
and reinvent it."

But saying that,

these were really,
really difficult to write for.

Putting words
in James Bond's mouth...

Because all that
anybody remembers
are the one-liners.

You know, for me,
the funniest lines
are out of reality.

The greatest Bond lines
are stress release.

They're like a release of,
you know, of tension,

so that you don't...
"Oh, God!"

You know, 'cause he's
in a terrible situation.

You have to create that.
You have to create the tension

and then have the one-liner.

You can't just...
The one-liner's not the scene.

I've got a little itch

down there.

Would you mind?

[screams] No.

No! No.

No, no.

To the right. To the right!

To the right!

You are a funny, man. Mr. Bond.

[Wilson] Well, it was the same
with "Bond, James Bond."

[Craig] Exactly.
I mean, I know. I mean,
Pierce talks about it.

But it's like, you know,
saying that fucking line...

I mean, if I have to say it,
I'll say it once to myself.

And then you're on set
and you think, "Oh, I'm fine,
I'm fine, I'm fine."

And then you say it,
and it's like this...

The weight of it is just--

And I think I try to be
quite cool about these things,

but it's impossible.

I mean, I don't know
how many takes we did
at the end of Casino Royale.

Literally,
there are takes with,

[in broken voice]
"The name's Bond, James Bond."

-It's like...
-[Wilson laughing]

It's like I'm a 13-year-old
whose voice is breaking.

The name's Bond.

James Bond.

[Craig] The film was good,

but because people's
expectations were,

"Let's go and see
this train wreck."

I mean, I think a lot of people
did think, you know,

"We're going to see it for
the shits and giggles factor,"

or the fact that this...

"Let's go and see
this one-shot wonder."

-[Broccoli chuckles]
-I mean, all of that going on.

And it's like...
The response was...

I mean, you know, I remember
being at the premiere,

which was Leicester Square?

[Broccoli] Mm-hmm.

[Craig] That was just like...

I mean, I was like,
"What is going on?"

And the credits came up,

I mean, the pre-title sequence.

And it's not the biggest
pre-title sequence

'cause it's just a fight
in the bathroom, isn't it?
That's all it is.

It's black and white
and it's not
that particularly long.

It's not particularly
ambitious like that.

And it came to the ending
and the music came in,

and everybody, I mean,
everybody started cheering.

And it was just like,
you know,

I'm kinda feeling up
about it now.

[Broccoli] Yeah, I mean,
it was just...

It just went--
Skyrocketed.

The movie went crazy.

And the reviews
were crazy, right?

[Craig] The reviews were great.

[Wilson] And the numbers
were great.

Although, I think
all that bad publicity,

we could've done better
without it.

[Craig] I think we
could have done a lot better.

[Wilson] But we were good.
Solid success.

Please welcome Mr. Daniel Craig,
ladies and gentlemen.

[male reporter 1] Daniel Craig
proved all this doubters wrong

with his debut
in Casino Royale.

The most successful yet.

The highest grossing
Bond movie in history...

[female reporter 1]
Box office hit, Casino Royale,

becomes the first ever
in the series

to be shown in China's cinemas.

[male reporter 2]
The super spy has finally
conquered the Communists.

[female reporter 2]
He really has completely
re-energized this franchise.

Congratulations.

You know, I think
a celebration's in order.

[Craig] On Quantum, however,

[chuckles] uh, we had
a writer's strike.

We had a script,

it wasn't completed,

but it was nearly completed,

and we had a writer's strike.

I mean,
the movie kind of works.

It's not Casino Royale,
and that was always gonna be...

It was, like, literally,
"troubling second album"
syndrome.

In a way,
we could not top Casino.

It's easy to say that.
Of course we wanted

to top Casino but, you know...

[Broccoli] We were up
against the writer's strike
on one end...

[Craig] Which everybody knew
was coming.

[Broccoli] We knew
it was coming,

and we hadn't quite gotten
the script right.

We didn't have a director yet.

And on the other end was the...

There was supposed to be
an actors' strike,

the SAG strike.

So we were like,
"If we don't go now,

it's gonna be
never-never land."

So, we basically
started shooting
without a script,

which is never a good idea.

But the script was turned in,

and I remember the writer
who turned the script in

and then picked up his check,

and then picked up his placard

and stood
outside the studio striking.

Anyway, so,
we were kind of screwed,

and we had to all
kind of muddle in

and try and make
the story work,

and it wasn't really
working that great.

But, you know, I look back
at the movie

and, you know,
it's still a good movie.

[Craig] There's some really
special moments in that film.

-[Broccoli] Yeah.
-[Craig] Very special.

I don't know if that movie
adheres together

as well as it should,

but that was just because
the story, it wasn't solid.

[Wilson] We just didn't get
Bond's journey right in it,

which is the key.

It wasn't totally focused
on his journey,

and I think,
sometimes we get...

we can get too wound up in plot

rather than keep to the story,

which is an issue
for these kind of films.

[man] Three, two, one, action!

[Craig] What had happened,
weirdly,

and it's not nobody's fault,

I mean, it's my fault,
mainly is that...

You know,
the stunt guys were like,

"Oh, God, you can do this."

So I'd get more
and more and more to do.

I was loving it, it was great,
I was jumping
all over the place.

So I threw myself
into the stunts

more than I threw myself...

'Cause the script was
a bit kind of like,

"I don't know what to do
about the script. I can't...

I'm not a writer,
I can't help."

And even though Marc and I
would sit and we'd try
and bash things out,

I couldn't really help.

So I threw myself
into the stunts,

and I basically volunteered
for every single stunt
in the movie.

And that was... with hindsight,
that was a bad mistake,

'cause I got badly hurt.

But on Quantum, I think
I was sort of overwhelmed.

My world had turned
upside down.

I mean, upside down.

My personal life was affected

by being that famous
all of a sudden.

I can honestly say I was
sort of in a bit of
cloud cuckoo land.

[Broccoli] When you think
about it, I mean,

Daniel went from
not being a household name

to being on the tea towels,
literally on the tea towels.

That's a huge transformation
for someone.

And I mean, I remember,

you were sort of under siege
at a point, weren't you?

I mean, I think I was
physically under siege,

but also, I was mentally
under siege.

I mean, when there are people
in trees outside your house,

you're kind of,
you know, they say,

"What have you got
to be paranoid about?"

I mean, I didn't go out.

I mean, I literally kind of
would lock myself in
and close the curtains

'cause I didn't know
how to handle it.

And I don't still.

[Broccoli] I mean,
there were times
I was worried for him

because he wasn't
enjoying life.

You know, it felt like
it was really a big sacrifice.

And then we did a play together
in New York.

-[Craig] Yeah.
-[Broccoli] I think that--

[Craig] And Hugh Jackman
taught me a few things.

[Broccoli] Yeah. I mean,
that was interesting because...

[Craig] Well, one of things
that you told me
was that I'm not Hugh.

-[Broccoli] Yeah.
-[Craig] Because Hugh
is extraordinary.

I mean, his wife calls him
Senator Jack.

-[Broccoli chuckles]
-So, it's like...
So, he goes out, you know,

like, he waves to the crowd
and talks to everybody,

kisses every baby.

I mean,
he's, like, there for hours
every night after the show,

and I kind of, it isn't...

I joined in.
I kind of was like, "Okay."

I mean, you know,
'cause they were there
to see us both.

And they were both...
And they were excited
to see us both. And it was...

So I think that broke a big...

-The enjoyment...
-[Broccoli] It broke a boil.

[Craig] Yeah,
it broke a boil, exactly.

It kind of,
it just made it that,

"You know what,
it ain't that bad."

It became fun, it became fun.

Where the hell have you been?

You didn't get the postcard?

You should try it sometime,
get away from it all.

It really lends perspective.

[Broccoli]
When we got to Skyfall,

it was about
building the family again.

-The MI6 family.
-[Craig] Yes.

[Broccoli]
Because we knew that
Judy would be departing.

[Craig] Getting Ralph involved.

-[Broccoli]
Getting Ralph involved.
-[Craig] Yeah. And Ben.

[Broccoli] And Ben
and Naomie Harris.

So we felt we were betting
into something again,

and giving Bond his family,
his foundation back.

[Craig] But it was like
we have to have a new Q

and you know,
the casting of Ben was
just like this genius thing.

It just pleased everybody.

Always makes me feel
a little melancholy.

A grand old warship
being ignominiously hauled away
for scrap.

Inevitability of time,
don't you think?

What do you see?

A bloody big ship.

Excuse me.

007.

-[sighs]
-I'm your new Quartermaster.

You must be joking.

Why? Because I'm not wearing
a lab coat?

Because you still have spots.

I got very excited
when I saw my friend, Daniel,
play James Bond

in Casino Royale.

And I thought
it opened up all sorts of

wonderful possibilities
for the character.

And I wanted a huge challenge

and for me,
this was an enormous challenge.

[Broccoli] Daniel had
suggested Sam,

which was a really great idea.

And, you know,

Sam was coming back to England,

and he'd never done anything
on that sort of scale before.

And it was a great combination.

[Craig] Yeah, you know,
Sam came in
and he loves actors,

and he loves directing actors.

And we had a great story,
and all the actors came up
and turned up.

They created something.

They reinvented it.

They did it in a way that's
incredibly memorable, I think.

Are you sure this is about M?

It's about her,

and you and me.

You see,
we are the last two rats.

We can either
eat each other...

Hmm?

Or eat everyone else.

How you're trying to remember
your training now. [chuckles]

What's the regulation
to cover this?

Well, first time for everything,

-yes?
-[Craig] Hmm.

What makes you think
this is my first time?

Oh, Mr. Bond...

[Broccoli] That scene
with you and Javier,

when the sort of
sexual innuendo
between the two of you

and you say,
"What makes you think
this is my first time?"

I mean, I remember

we were told
to cut that line by the studio,

and we said, "No, no, no."
We resisted. We resisted.

And I remember
the night of the premier

that line, just the whole place

rocked it then, with that line.

I remember looking at
the studio executive

who was in the next thing,
going, "See, told you."

Now we have the poster.

-Finally.
-Yeah.

[Wilson] Skyfall
is an example again,

of a complex story
and a very simple plot.

And those emotional stories
really work,

and both,
Casino Royale and Skyfall

demonstrate that.

[Craig] We had an ending,
you know,
we had an ending for Skyfall.

We'd figured the ending out
very early on.

[Wilson] It was emotionally,

very emotionally affecting.

I suppose it's

too late to make a run for it.

Well, I am game if you are.

Let's just get one thing right.

[Craig] The day we filmed
her death was...

was very emotional,

I mean, it's...
It was difficult.

I mean,
we joked most of the day,
but it was actually...

It was very tough to do

because she's been
part of Bond for a while.

And it's like she has something
about her,

and it comes across
in her acting,

and it comes across
in everything she does.

[Broccoli] It was an extremely
emotional day for all of us.

Um, I think for Judy, who was
really holding it together.

Um,

but, you know,
for me also because...

during the, sort of,
17 years that we've been
working together,

you know,
we've all been through a lot.

And, um, she's reinvented
this character.

And it was pretty devastating.

We were all...
We were all a mess.

Well, I was a mess,
particularly.

[Craig] I mean,
on a purely personal level

the fact that I got to act
with Judy Dench,

it was a lifelong ambition.

The fact that I got to act
with Judi Dench, being my M,

is just beyond the realms.

[Craig] Skyfall, for me,
was a culmination of...

It was every...
It kind of ticked all my boxes.

[man] Cut. Cut, thank you.

[Broccoli] There were
so many things about Skyfall
that were terrific.

The story, and then,
bringing the family together,

and the really emotional ending
and all that.

Then we also had Adele,

and we also had
the Olympics.

And that was just incredible.

[Graham Norton] The stars
of the new James Bond movie,
Skyfall,

are with us.
Yes, they are.

-[audience exclaims]
-Daniel Craig is here.

The last time we saw you
as Bond with Her Majesty,

-the Olympics...
-[Craig] Mm-hmm.

-...how long was that
in the planning?
-Quite a long time.

Danny Boyle came to visit me
on set.

He sat me down,
he told me what he wanted to do

and I walked out and said,
"Enough of that."

I really thought
he was just pulling my leg.

So, um, anyway,
the whole kind of thing,

um, you know, came about.

The next thing I know
I'm at the Palace.

[Norton]
'Cause you must've thought,

"Oh, I'll agree to it
but it'll never happen."

-You know, you can--
-[Craig] Well, I didn't...
I mean, I thought

they hadn't sort of had
the okay from the Palace,

but apparently,
they got that first
and then asked me.

So I didn't have much choice.

Oh, yeah.
Imagine if you'd turned it down.

[man] ... all the way
around the stadium,

a James Bond epic...

starring...

Daniel Craig,

and Her Majesty, The Queen.

[Harrison Ford]
The British Artist of the Year
Award

was created in 2006,
and the first recipient

was another incredibly
talented actor, Rachel Weisz,

Daniel's wife.

Britannia Award,
the best of British...

Sorry, I'll get it together
on the day.

-Best British...
-[woman] For British Artist
of the Year.

[laughs] British Artist.

Daniel, artist.

[Ford] And now,
six years later,

with Rachel's
patient tutelage...

...and coaching,

he is in the position
to be able to accept...

...that 11 people
got offered the role before him.

But don't... Uh,
don't put any of this.

Clooney, I think was first,
Clooney.

I got offered, um...

I think even, yeah, Jude Law
got offered it.

Will Ferrell got offered it.

-[audience cheering]
-[Ford] Put your hands
together

for the British Artist
of The Year,

Mr. Daniel Craig.

[Craig] Thank you, Bafta
for this.

It's incredibly humbling
to receive this honor

with all these
amazingly talented people.

Michael Wilson
and Barbara Broccoli,

together with Cubby Broccoli,

they made a franchise last
50 years.

And, uh, they allowed me
to be part of it,

so thank you.
Thank you.

[Craig] We had to convince Sam
to do it.

I mean, you know,
Sam was very much
of two minds about it.

[Broccoli] He felt he'd done it

and he'd done it
so successfully
to drag him back in,

but he got into it.

He approached
this whole series

with tremendous enthusiasm,
I would say.

You know, "Let's get the car,

and let's do
the biggest explosion."

He just really embraced
all the tropes,

which was... it was time
for that to happen.

And, uh,
and it was fun.

[Craig] Yeah, I always wanted
to have the gadgets

and things back in the movie.

It was just
bringing them back in
in an original way.

And I think Sam and I
had this conversation
before Spectre.

It was how do we make it
happen, so it feels fresh.

[Broccoli] But I think
we needed to find a big hook

to the story.

And then, obviously,
what came up was

the idea
of bringing Blofeld back.

[Blofeld] Welcome, James.

It's been a long time.

But finally, here we are.

What took you so long?

Cuckoo.

[Craig] I had a lot of fun
on that movie,

but part of the problem
was that maybe I broke my leg.

And we had a choice,

we could shut down
for nine months,

and I could go
and get an operation,

or I could, I could
crack on with the movie.

And, I didn't want to
shut down for nine months.

I-I thought I've got to finish
the movie,

so I wore basically
a bionic leg

for the rest of the...
rest of the film,

which was not the greatest way
to do a Bond movie.

[Broccoli] And you didn't stop
doing all the action?

[Craig] No.
You know, unfortunately,

it was massively distracting
for me.

So I probably was
talking through my ass

when I said it was
the best experience of my life

because I was trying
to juggle an awful lot
of things.

I had to psychologically juggle

my physical state.

[man] Hang on.

[Craig] Trouble is,
with the energy that I had,
the leg would give way,

which is kinda of great
when you watch me walking
at the beginning of the movie,

and I climb out of a window,
walk down a ledge

and jump down another ledge,
and jump down another ledge.

I'm literally going,
[chuckling]

"Don't give way,
don't give way,
don't give way."

I mean, I'm tired,
got a wire on,

but I mean,
it's very traumatic.

'Cause I'm trying to be cool,

but my leg is-- it's shot.

[man 1] Here we go.
Ready, everyone?

Let's all fall back.

[man 2] And, action!

[Broccoli] He was
in excruciating pain

on that whole sequence.

The opening sequence
was redesigned

for him
to be more stealth-like,

because he could barely walk.

I remember, I was just
looking at him and thinking,

"I don't know how
he's actually managing this."

I mean, we had 1,500 extras.

You know, it was a massive,
massive sequence.

We had shut down the square
for four days

and he was like,
"I'm going to do it," you know?

[Craig] But we changed the idea
and I just said, "Look,

we keep it mysterious."

So basically, I'm doing
a lot of entrances and exits,

and I think
that kind of worked.

In a way, it was fortuitous,

because that scene
is exceptional.

And if we'd shut down,
God knows, I don't know,

-I don't--
-[Broccoli] We never
could have achieved that.

[Craig] Well, you know what,
they said nine-month recovery.

I mean, it may be
for a 22-year-old athlete,

but it's not for a man
of advancing years.

[Craig] I don't wat to
kind of go on about
how hard Spectre was,

but it was, it was tough,
and I needed a break.

I needed to kind of switch off.
I needed to get away.

And I genuinely felt,
psychologically,
at the end of that film,

"Maybe I'm just too old."

And the problem is
the way we started
these films...

I've started my tenure at this,

was throwing myself at it
like a bull in a China shop.

So, to sort of not do that,

seemed to be like,
"What's the point?"

I mean, it just felt,
like, completely wrong.

I mean, I, genuinely,
I'd convinced myself
that was it.

Daniel Craig is definitely
not doing another Bond movie.

In a super candid interview
with Time Out

while doing press for Spectre,
Daniel Craig is asked

if he'd want to do
another Bond movie.

His answer, "Now
I'd rather break this glass

and slash my wrists."

It was two days
after I finished shooting
the last movie.

-[Stephen Colbert] Sure.
-I went straight into
an interview

-and someone said,
"Would you do another one?"
-Oh, okay.

And I went, "No!"
I... And instead of
saying something, you know,

-um, with style and grace.
-[laughing]

I gave a really stupid answer.

Someone gave me
a good analogy, which is that,

if you were asked 200 meters
from the end of a marathon,

whether you'd run
another marathon,
you'd be...

you know, you'd be fairly
short and sweet
about the answer,

which is what I was.

I've read that
it will be your last.

-Will this be your last?
-I don't know.

-[man] The burning question,
will it be your last one?
-Who knows.

[woman] Are you gonna stay
or are you gonna go--

I don't know. I just don't know.

The honest answer is,
I don't know.

I don't know.

Daniel Craig, will you return
as James Bond?

-Yes.
-[audience cheer]

[Craig] You know,
Barbara drives a hard bargain.

Thanks so much. Daniel Craig...

[Craig] So, I don't think
I was ever really gonna
get away with leaving

after Spectre.

[Broccoli] That was
supposed to be his last movie,

although I told him
it wasn't gonna be.

[Craig] It was supposed to be
my last movie

but Barbara, she said, "No."

[Broccoli] I said,
"There is unfinished business.

We haven't told
the rest of the story.

There is still story
to be told here."

So we started this one

with the idea that,
"Wow, we got to go for broke."

[female reporter]
The production
on the latest film, Bond 25,

was reportedly just shut down.

It's being reported that
Craig injured himself in Jamaica

on the set of Bond 25.

[Wilson] We had the injury,
but we also had...

You know, we started
with one director
and we got another,

and then we had script issues
that went on and on and on.

And it's also emotionally tough

being Daniel's last one.

It's tough on Barbara,
it's tough on me,

it's tough on Daniel,
especially.

And you know,
you don't appreciate that.

You don't appreciate how
emotionally difficult it is

to do these things.

[Craig] There always is
a struggle.

Come on,
it's always what it is.

But this has been...
It's been harder the most,

but, because we were
up against it so much.

People were just like,
"We're gonna get it done.
This is the last one."

And it felt like
everybody just bought into it.

[Broccoli] I'm just so thrilled

at how this film
has turned out.

There's something
about this film that...

The culmination
of the five films

and this film in particular,

it makes me feel, as if

not only has he made his mark
on the Bond franchise,

but he has now made his mark
in cinematic history.

I mean, the night
he completed the role

and we wrapped the film,
was like a real moment.

[Wilson] Mm-hmm.
And the last shot
was him running down an alley,

disappearing out of shot.

It was just unbelievable.

[man 1] And, cut.

-[man 2] Cut the light.
-[man 1] All right,
that's it, guys.

[Broccoli] It was
a historic moment.

-[people cheering]
- Everyone came.

We were night shooting,
and everyone came down

to kind of witness the moment.

Because we knew
how significant it was.

It was deeply emotional.

I mean,
everyone was sobbing.

-Literally sobbing.
-[Wilson]
People wouldn't leave.

You know,
usually on night shifts,
everybody leaves, no?

They just stood around

and, just embraced
each other.

You know, I've been
doing this for a while

and there's some of the people
I've actually worked with here,
I think, most of my career,

which is getting on
for about 30 years.
So that's quite a long time.

And a lot of people here
worked on five pictures with me,

and I know there's
a lot of things said about

what I think about these films,
or all of those whatever.

But I've loved
every single second

of these movies,
and especially this one,

because I've got up
every morning,

and I've had the chance
to work with you guys.

And that has been
one of the greatest honors
of my life.

So... [sniffles]

[Craig] I look at
what I've done,

and go,
"That's part of Goldfinger."

And I'm like, "Wow."

I mean,
I'm connected to Goldfinger,

I'm connected to Dr. No.

I'm connected to
Live and Let Die.

I mean, my tenure
is what it is,

but it's only part of
something bigger.

That's just...
That's what it is,
when you look back and go...

I mean, genuinely,
I feel like that.

But I look at the films

and I'm incredibly proud
of every single one of them.

-I know we've done our best.
-[Broccoli] Yeah, for sure.

I mean, really done our best.

[Broccoli] Yeah, I mean,
he's sitting here,
so it's so awkward to say it,

but Daniel
has just taken this...

the character, or the series,
the whole thing

to a place
that is so extraordinary

and so emotionally
satisfying,

that I cannot imagine Bond
after Daniel.

[Craig] Let's be honest,
leaving this role is not easy.

It's a really difficult thing
to do.

And, you know,

I can be as brazen and blase
about it as I like,

it's still tough to do.

It's still tough
to walk away from.

And it's not about
money and fame
because I've got it.

I mean, I'm incredibly lucky

and incredibly fortunate
to have been able to do this.

It's given me more things
in my life
than I could ever wish for.

And it's not about
any of those things.

It's about
a psychological connection

to something that has taken up
15 years of my life.

And to walk away from
something like that,
is very, very tricky.

But I think it's okay now.

I do.

And it's because
we did this movie, really.

I mean, I just think that
it's all right now.