Daniel Craig has had a fascinating career over the past two decades. On the one hand, he is known as Agent 007, protagonist of the James Bond franchise. Craig made his first foray into the spy franchise in 2006, starring in Royal Casino. He would appear in five Bond films in total, making his final appearance as the character in There’s no time to die. Craig was well-liked during his tenure as the Bond character, but upon saying goodbye to the protagonist, the search for his replacement in Bond 26 continues.
Although Bond took up a lot of time during these years, Craig managed to make himself available for several other films, many of which are very different roles to Bond. This includes playing the investigator and loudmouth Benoit Blanc in Knives out. This role earned the actor praise for his comedic potential, showing the wide range he was capable of. Although he has acted in other roles during his tenure as Bond, there is one role that Craig doesn’t think he would have played before leaving 007 behind.
Craig wouldn’t have made his 2024 film while playing James Bond
Craig was “so into bonding”
In a conversation with The New York TimesCraig explains that he would not have taken the role in Queer while making the Bond films. The actor first talks about whether he is a “mark” and although he concludes not in some respects, he also admits that he would not have made the film Queer if it had been offered to him a decade ago. As for the reason for this hypothetical decision, Craig said he was “so into Bond and what was that” and being in Queer would have done it”terrified.” Check out Craig’s full quote below:
Am I a brand? You have to do social media, and I can’t do that. I even regret the emails I send.
I wouldn’t have done [Queer 10 years ago]. I was so into Bond and what it was that I would have been scared to do something like that. Especially at the beginning with Bond, I thought, ‘That’s enough. Stay in my lane.
Scheduled for release on November 27th, Queer is a film by Luca Guadagnino about an American named William Lee, who narrates his travels through Mexico City. While there, he meets a fellow expatriate, university student Eugene Allerton, with whom he begins a relationship. Queer is getting good reviews, with praise aimed specifically at Craig, and has gotten buzzy enough that Craig is in talks for a Best Actor Oscar nomination. It’s good, then, that Queer is coming out whenever it is, as the actor isn’t so restricted to the Bond image.
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It is a very different role from the bond
Although Craig ended up playing Lee, his story is a testament to the importance of Bond’s image. It was just There’s no time to diethe most recent Bond film, that a major Bond character (Ben Whishaw’s Q) was revealed to be gay. Although Craig playing a gay man in another film had no bearing on his Bond sexuality, the character is typically portrayed as a conventionally masculine heterosexual man. Be in Queer can affect how the public views Craig back then, even though they love him in the movie now.
Source: NYT