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CS: How apprehensive were you to take Bond on originally?
Craig: Very resignated. I was against it, very much against it.

CS: What changed your mind?
Craig: The script and the fact that it seemed to me that I would be able to
sort of dedicate and get involved with and make something of. I’ve always been a
Bond fan. I’ve always wanted the films to be good. When it came along and I read
the script I thought there was genuinely an opportunity to make a good movie
with one of the most classic icon figures in movies.

Interesting.

CS: This new movie starts right after “Casino Royale” ends?
Craig: That’s the plan.

CS: Will the writers’ strike affect production on the next film?
Craig: We’d basically have to start now. The SAG strike starts in July. The
writers’ strike doesn’t affect us because we have a script. As it stands at the
moment, it doesn’t affect us.

CS: “Casino Royale” marked a welcome return to the style and sensibilities
of the earlier Bond movies, rather than the jokey more recent movies.
Craig: The idea of having jokes in Bond I don’t think is completely wrong,
but I think the jokes to need to come out tension. There needs to be moments of
humor because we’ve all been sitting on the edge of our seat. I don’t think you
should write gags in Bond.