I went to all the English-speaking territories and I met lots of people, and a lot of them have become very famous.” However, when it was decided that Bond should be young, but not that young, “we went up a level age wise, and it brought in a different group of people.” “There are always the usual suspects, but I like to find people who aren’t well known or are slightly more unusual or a bit offbeat.” Initially she was looking for “young actors, much younger than Daniel was at the time, because it was about him becoming James Bond. “The whole process was several months from me setting off with my backpack and passport going here, there and everywhere to when they actually chose him,” she recalls. It was a very, very tall order, and there were hundreds of people being discussed.”Ĭasting director Debbie McWilliams, whose association with the series dates back to the days of Roger Moore and who had been involved in the casting of Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, was given the herculean task of finding this new Bond. It tells you why he became the man he became, so we wanted an actor who could be an iconic image of the twenty-first-century man and who had the acting chops to be able to deliver the emotional inner life without a lot of dialogue, because Bond is a very internal character. “ Casino Royale gave us the opportunity to get into Bond’s inner life. “We wanted to do a twenty-first-century Bond and redefine what a classic male hero should be,” says Broccoli. The extract below tells the story of casting Daniel Craig as 007.

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