Daniel Craig has opened up about how he has no regrets over killing off James Bond.
As fans may recall, Craig’s iteration of Bond dies in No Time To Die, forming a nice little send off for Daniel Craig. It does however say at the end that Bond will return.
And now, appearing on Martha Kearney’s BBC Radio 4 Best of Today podcast, the actor has clarified that he does not regret killing off Bond.
"No, none at all," Craig responded when asked if he regretted it.
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"I had an incredibly fortunate 17 years of my life making this. I literally want to spend the next 20 years of my life trying to unhook it all and try and put it into a place because it was incredible. I left it where I wanted it to be. And that I was given the chance to do that with the last movie," he explained.
When Kearney pointed out that Bond had been killed off, Craig said: "He’s not really dead. I’m gone, but it says right at the end [of No Time to Die] that Bond will return, so he must return at some point."
He also talked about reinventing the character.
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"I don’t know if it sounds disingenuous, I said to Barbara [Broccoli, franchise producer] a long time ago, back in 2006, 'If I do all of these movies, and we get it right, can we kill him off,' and she said, 'Yes, you can'," he said.
"And I was thinking about myself, about my postponed career and I was trying to think of how that would work, but I was also thinking [about] what they did with Casino Royale – they had the chance to reset with that because they went back to the beginning. I thought you’ll have a chance to reset again. That seems to be like a good move,” he added.
Craig can next be seen as Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which arrives on Netflix on December 23.
