Daniel Craig as James Bond looking down the lens in Casino Royale
Former James Bond actor Daniel Craig reflects on how he dealt with his newfound fame following the release of Casino Royale in 2006. After the release of Die Another Day in 2002, Craig was chosen as Pierce Brosnan's replacement, a decision that was initially met with a great deal of skepticism and unhappiness.
Before the first movie, it was, like, He’s really terrible. After the first movie, it was, like, He’s really good. And then the interest in you is so overwhelming. You feel like you’ll never go out again. You’ll never be able to socialize again. In a way, what I would say is I was suddenly kind of free. When I first started doing Bond, I felt like I had to work in between doing Bond. And I found that at the end of the day I was just too exhausted. It’s two years out of your life and you go, Oh, go and do another project to freshen myself up. And all I found was I couldn’t put any energy into it. So with varying degrees of success, I kind of did these movies that were, like, O.K.
✕ Remove Ads Casino Royale obviously changed the course of his career and made him a household name, but, as Craig himself suggests above, the Bond franchise did affect his non-007 career. Immediately after Casino Royale, Craig appears in The Golden Compass and a small film called Flashbacks of a Fool before he's right back into Bond with Quantum of Solace .
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