Broccoli had been tracking Craig as the next Bond for the previous six years. Broccoli and Craig met for the first time at the wake. “There’s a very slim chance that the daughter of one of the great commercial producers of the last hundred years should also be a great, great producer, but that is in fact the case,” Mendes told me. She has long brown hair and a mid-Atlantic accent, and you do what she says. If you have an image of Broccoli as some old lady in a Rolls-Royce, discard it now. Selway’s funeral was at St James’s Piccadilly, a broad, light-filled church in the West End of London. I do my own thing.’ ” Craig was at the airport, on his way to India, when one of Selway’s daughters called. “The idea that people supported me…at the time, I couldn’t see it. In his 20s and 30s, he was self-reliant to a fault. “My mother would hate me saying this, but I was on my own,” Craig said. He left home as a teenager and never looked back. Selway had helped Craig land some important early roles she had also told him what to do. On April 21, 2004, Mary Selway, a celebrated London casting director, died of cancer. “I can’t…I don’t want to think about it.” When I asked Broccoli how she was going to cope without Craig, it was her turn to flounder. The films can never go back to what they were. It’s just possible that Craig smashed Bond in more ways than one. During the same period, Britain-which Bond, in some way, always represents-has experienced extraordinary turmoil and self-doubt, #MeToo has happened, and it’s very unclear who the good guys are anymore. He lost the smirk and gained a hinterland. In Craig’s hands, Bond aged, fell in love, and wept for the first time. He also changed the part in dramatic terms. Craig’s films in the role have already grossed more than $3 billion. It was a different story with the rest of the Bond family. But this, I’m like…” He dusted his hands. “I don’t think I would have been if I’d done the last film and that had been it. He was keen to celebrate his work as Bond and even keener to look forward to whatever is coming next. There was some evident double-crossing.Ĭraig, however, did seem like a new person as he prepared to step away from the franchise. The trailer showed Bond zooming a motorbike up some picturesque steps and Malek, as the baddie, in a worrying mask.
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Watching the trailer on my phone, like the rest of the world, I didn’t think the 25th Bond movie looked a whole lot different from the 24th, or the 23rd, to be honest. Crosby Street was a parking lot of celebrities’ black SUVs. That morning, Craig and the other stars of No Time To Die-Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, and Lashana Lynch-had appeared on Good Morning America to launch the trailer. The producers were reminiscing a few weeks later in a hotel in Lower Manhattan.
“It’s raised the bar,” Craig finally conceded. “What you’re saying, it’s like, if I say it…” He hesitated. When he realized, he spluttered apologetically for a while. During one long conversation, when I told him that he had managed to imbue a previously vacant character with an inner life, a sense of mortality, and an unquenchable feeling of loss-in short, that he had triumphed as Bond-Craig initially misunderstood what I meant. It’s as if he wants to occupy several spots in the room at once. In real life, everything about Craig is animated, part-sprung. Onscreen, Craig’s face-that beautiful boxer’s face, those gas-ring eyes-can have a worrying stillness while his body moves. He apologized when answering my questions almost as often as he swore. He talked a mile a minute, losing threads and finding others. When I spent time with him this winter, Craig was warm and voluble in the extreme. You’ve got to leave your ego.”Īll of which means, now that it’s coming to an end, Craig sometimes struggles to comprehend what has happened to him and what he has achieved. Because so many things are going on in your head. “Stop fucking thinking and just fucking act,” Craig said once, like it was an incantation. There was a lot that he simply couldn’t remember. While making No Time To Die, he taped some interviews with Broccoli and Wilson about his years in the role. Craig has spent a lot of his time as James Bond trying not to think at all. “It is not a particularly healthy way to work.” Reckoning with any of this doesn’t actually help if you’re the frontman. “There has always been an element that Bond has been on the wing and a prayer,” Sam Mendes, who directed two of Craig’s 007 movies, told me. There is a slightly demonic, British conviction that it will all work out in the end. The theme tune hasn’t changed for half a century. The offices of Eon Productions, which makes the movies, are a short walk from Buckingham Palace. At the same time, they are weirdly artisanal, bound by tradition, a certain way of doing things. The films go toe to toe with Marvel: Craig’s Skyfall did around the same box office, $1.1 billion, as Iron Man 3.
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