Daniel Craig needed his Bond to die so he could move forward: ‘I don’t want to go back’
You might call the timeline of this transitional period in Daniel Craig’s career circuitous, even tangled.
In the three-plus years since filming his final scene as James Bond, Craig saw the release of “No Time to Die,” the last of his five movies as the British super-spy, delayed multiple times by the COVID-19 pandemic; witnessed “Knives Out,” in which he played Southern detective Benoit Blanc, bring in more than $300 million worldwide and earn an Oscar nomination for writer-director Rian Johnson; and completed the next installment in the emergent franchise, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”
Just don’t ask Craig to unravel it.
“Sure, if you say so,” Craig said when asked of the overlap between “Knives Out,” “No Time to Die” and “Glass Onion” during a recent Zoom call from his home in Brooklyn, New York, noting that exactly when he did what is a blur.
That may explain why the 54-year-old actor hasn’t had adequate time to reflect on his run as one of the most iconic characters in movie history, or what it meant to him personally and professionally.
“I’d love to give you a very succinct and proper
