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Miscellaneous / Verschiedenes » alt.fan.james-bond » Craig speaks
| Craig speaks [message #233219] |
Fr, 10 März 2006 03:27 |
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11750006/
Blond Bond stirred by criticism, but not shaken
'I've been trying to give 110 percent,' says new 007 Daniel Craig
After looking at this picture, do you still think Daniel Craig wouldn't
make a great James Bond?
Updated: 5:48 p.m. ET March 9, 2006
NASSAU, Bahamas - Is the next James Bond too blond for Her Majesty's
Secret Service? Stricken by heat rash? Licensed to kill but not
licensed to drive the famous stick-shift Aston Martin sports car?
Hounded by mounting criticism - even a threatened boycott - for
picking a blond actor to play the part of the world's most famous
dark-haired spy, the makers of the next James Bond movie "Casino
Royale" this week assured 007 fans that ruggedly handsome Englishman
Daniel Craig will be everything they have come to expect, and perhaps
more.
Yes, Craig did lose or chip a tooth during filming in Prague, but it
did not stop production, the actor told reporters. No, he did not
suffer from excruciating heat rash in the Bahamas. And of course, an
Englishman is perfectly capable of driving a manual gear car.
"You go mad if you believe any of [the criticism]," Craig, 38, told
reporters Wednesday after distributor Sony Pictures Entertainment Co.
and producers EON Productions invited journalists to the Bahamas movie
set to counter some of the Internet and newspaper nattering.
"You can't believe the good stuff. You can't believe the bad
stuff. You kind of just take it in. But I'm focused on making this
film."
Craig, whose character famously likes his vodka martini shaken, not
stirred, acknowledged the criticism had heightened the pressure on him.
"I've been trying to give 110 percent from the beginning and maybe
after [the criticism], I was trying to give 115 percent," he said.
"But I mean, I'm giving everything I can."
Casino Royale goes back to Bond's roots, when he makes his first two
assassinations and earns the 00 status that gives him a license to
kill. Published in 1953, it was the first book in Ian Fleming's James
Bond series.
Bond franchise
It was the need for a fresh start and a younger face that made the film
makers dump Pierce Brosnan, the most successful 007 to date, said
producer Barbara Broccoli, whose family owns EON Productions and the
Bond movie franchise.
The stakes in gambling on an untested James Bond are huge. The last
Bond movie, 2002's "Die Another Day," with Brosnan and actress
Halle Berry, grossed more than $425 million in worldwide ticket sales.
In all, the 20 official Bond movies including the first, "Dr. No"
starring Sean Connery that was released in 1962, have grossed almost $4
billion.
At the same time, two of the five actors who have played the part so
far - Timothy Dalton and George Lazenby - are barely remembered by
mainstream cinemagoers.
Broccoli and casting director Debbie McWilliams said Craig had been
their choice the minute they started the search.
"Once we started looking for someone, I really thought that Daniel
would be the perfect guy and I think everybody will agree once they see
the movie," Broccoli said. "I think he's the right man for the
job."
But the choice has been a tough sell.
A new Web site, craignotbond.com, has even called on die-hard 007 fans
to boycott the movie when it's released in November. Other sites have
run exposes of set mishaps.
"The truth is if you don't get bruised doing Bond, you're not
doing it properly," Craig said.
But like all publicity, even the criticism of Craig has a plus side.
"People are, thank goodness, in a way still incredibly interested,"
said casting director McWilliams. "Virtually a day doesn't go by
where we don't read something about James Bond in a newspaper and
that can only be good for us I think."
Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or
redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the
prior written consent of Reuters.
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| Re: Craig speaks [message #233223 ] |
Fr, 10 März 2006 03:41 |
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JHause wrote:
<polite snips of tabloid rumours>
> And of course, an
> Englishman is perfectly capable of driving a manual gear car.
FWIW, Craig's two years older than me, and when I took driving lessons
you couldn't - by law - take a British driving test using anything
other than a manual gear car. I suspect the Aston Martin story is yet
more tabloid crap.
Best
Phil
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| Re: Craig speaks [message #233239 ] |
Fr, 10 März 2006 11:24 |
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phil.gerrard [at] ntlworld.com wrote:
> FWIW, Craig's two years older than me, and when I took driving lessons
> you couldn't - by law - take a British driving test using anything
> other than a manual gear car. I suspect the Aston Martin story is yet
> more tabloid crap.
I didn't know that. I thought it was possible to take a test in an
automatic. Has it always been that way?
--
--Mac
"Vargas does not drink...does not smoke...does not make love.
What do you do, Vargas?"
"Vargas test drove a Moonraker Shuttle. Crap gear-change."
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| Re: Craig speaks [message #233248 ] |
Fr, 10 März 2006 12:58 |
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Mac wrote:
> I didn't know that. I thought it was possible to take a test in an
> automatic. Has it always been that way?
My (possible mis-) understanding at the time I was learning was that
there was a separate 'automatic only' licence, introduced initially
to take account of the needs of disabled drivers and those who
qualified abroad, but even today it's not considered the 'full
monty', so to speak: quite a few driving instructors will only offer
this option to students with special needs.
In the interests of full disclosure, I guess I should tell you that I
never even got as far as the test, and was told by my instructor that I
was the only pupil he'd ever had who was a worse driver at the end of
his sixth lesson than he was at the end of his first.
Best
Phil
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| Re: Craig speaks [message #233261 ] |
Fr, 10 März 2006 14:08 |
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> FWIW, Craig's two years older than me, and when I took driving lessons
> you couldn't - by law - take a British driving test using anything
> other than a manual gear car. I suspect the Aston Martin story is yet
> more tabloid crap.
Well, seeing as mi6.co.uk has a link to a whole bunch of pics showing Craig
in (and stepping out of) the Aston, I think we can consider that myth indeed
busted...
--
Redemption 07 - B5 B7 and Beyond, 23-25 February 2007.
http://www.smof.com/redemption
"In the ghetto, washing non colourfast synthetics at 60 degrees could cost
you your life..." [Ali G]
Book At Bedtime: Deception Point (Dan Brown)
http://lonemagpie.livejournal.com
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| Re: Craig speaks [message #233263 ] |
Fr, 10 März 2006 14:21 |
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phil.gerrard [at] ntlworld.com wrote:
> Mac wrote:
>
>> I didn't know that. I thought it was possible to take a test in an
>> automatic. Has it always been that way?
>
> My (possible mis-) understanding at the time I was learning was that
> there was a separate 'automatic only' licence, introduced initially
> to take account of the needs of disabled drivers and those who
> qualified abroad, but even today it's not considered the 'full
> monty', so to speak: quite a few driving instructors will only offer
> this option to students with special needs.
>
> In the interests of full disclosure, I guess I should tell you that I
> never even got as far as the test, and was told by my instructor that
> I was the only pupil he'd ever had who was a worse driver at the end
> of his sixth lesson than he was at the end of his first.
ROTFLMAO
--
--Mac
"Can you play any other tunes?"
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