JAMES BOND | Casino Royale "Daniel Craig" Screen Test

[@mohamedishaan1316]

He looks like a mixture of Christopher Nolan and Draco Malfoy

[@drachireidnoc6659]

Pretty good description

[@MuffinMcFluffin]

I definitely saw some young Nolan in him there.

[@v-trigger6137]

Lmaooo. I was thinking that he does remind me of someone, but couldn't remember who. but now that you've mentioned Nolan, I can't unsee it 💀..

[@LanaaAmor]

😭😭😭

[@Bruceybaby2009]

Shit you nailed it lol. A grownup Draco Malfoy lol

[@ymatT601]

He always had the perfect voice for it.

[@arabaaduah2682]

agree. I'm sure that was a big part of why they wanted to cast him so bad

[@tiffsaver]

PERFECT.

[@Mark-lj1dj]

I totally agree. The train scene where he met Vesper was the perfect example of this

[@tiffsaver]

@@Mark-lj1dj Fallen in love with Eva Green ever since!!

[@muchasgracias6976]

Wow! Just look at how 'different' Daniel looks back then. He totally shredded himself in order to portray Bond.

[@hunterxsimple3821]

And he changed his hairstyle for Bond. Why? So he wouldn't look blonde or he would be taken more seriously?

[@jacekinglant]

@@hunterxsimple3821 more serious

[@bear1245]

Looks like mr potato head

[@1Mannco]

He looks a lot different or really young, his hair or something. I really liked him as Bond. Wish he had made a couple more movies in that 15 year span.

[@andarporbuenosaires]

In this screen test I honestly find it hard to see Craig as Bond, he looks skinny, with long hair, he looks more like a university history professor than a secret agent. Without a doubt, the hair cut and having worked on his muscles, made a difference and gave him the touch he needed to become the brutal Bond of Casino Royale.

[@wanyekest6969]

And Casino Royale turned out to be one of the best, if not, the best movie in his tenure.

[@aniruddhmurthy6970]

Casino Royale is still the best bond movie, bar none.

[@AdamSmith75th]

Not only is Casino the best Bond film, it might be up there as one of the best action films of all time. It’s certainly in my personal top 20.

[@laurencewhite4809]

Are you guys high??? Casino Royale the best Bond movie??? You guys must be under 20.

[@AdamSmith75th]

@@laurencewhite4809 41 actually.

[@Bruceybaby2009]

@@laurencewhite4809 Casino Royale is generally considered one of the best Bond movies, and consistently makes it into the top 5 lists of best Bond movies all time. It’s an incredible film.

[@feszty]

I think it was his performance in Layercake that earned him this gig. His nonchalance and the cool way he carries himself gave the movie Bond character something that we only read in the Fleming novels.

[@_sarcasmiss2141]

I absolutely loved Layer Cake! I agree, he was the beginnings of James Bond in that film.

[@savvysearch]

Probably Tomb Raider helped a lot. He had a shower scene where he was totally ripped and gorgeous.

[@snowysnowyriver]

Munich didn't do him any harm either. Although it wasn't released until after he signed on, it was already in the can.

[@RetroVida]

Munich was the movie that made them want him. Spielberg even spurred on Craig in taking the role. Is in documentaries etc this was the movie that made them want him,

[@Del-Canada]

Are Flaming novels the ones from Fahrenheit 451?

[@seerpou]

it's incredible how they saw it in him even though he really didn't look the part before his transformation. he looked like gareth from the office

[@yimmytjahjono6262]

Exactly..., it takes a lot of talent to spot the potential of what he can be, and to take him to that level.

[@gogoi.p]

I can't say if that's entirely the case. I mean, pick any actor that played Bond before Craig. Connery, Moore, Brosnan and the few others. None of them were muscular and chiseled like Daniel Craig. In fact, they all bear more resemblance physically to how he looks in this screen test than the actual movies. I think the character of James Bond is more about being sharp and suave than being strongly built, but it's just my opinion.

[@seerpou]

@@gogoi.p bond was never a huge muscular man!!! but look at craig here, he looks lanky and seedy, almost like gareth from the office!

[@hatsigeo1283]

I could see "Bond" in him in the movie Layer Cake.

[@seerpou]

@@hatsigeo1283 no way. he looks like gareth from the office in that movie

[@mnmlyt]

Anyone who saw Layer Cake knew he was destine to be the next bond. That little 2004 movie was his real audition (that's why she kept saying "we only wanted him")

[@daddyj16gga]

I saw this (Layer Cake) much later after Casino Royale and finally understood why he was it was an unintentional audition for Bond. Brilliant film

[@loisahn]

I absolutely loved Daniel Craig's portrayal of James Bond! He nailed it! Even better!

[@purefoldnz3070]

horrible truly horrible.

[@jcw9539]

Not in my view Ghastly piece of casting

[@stygianjack9017]

“Thug bond” as my wife labelled him after watching Casino Royale. They clearly didn’t want the new bond to be sauve and sophisticated as they went with short and charisma free instead. Thankfully the new bond - Aaron Taylor Johnson - at least looks the part.

[@rangersnut]

Bond should have dark hair, and plenty of charisma.

[@Cormano980]

The worst of them by far, he literally looks like the neighbourhood plumber

[@aitornavarro6597]

Man I'm gonna miss him as 007

[@JohnSmith-mr8wc]

Not with any innuendos.

[@jcw9539]

I’m not glad to see back of him

[@bouya642]

@@jcw9539Craig was the best Bond. I bet u are a connery fanboy top 3 Bond films: 1. Casino Royale 2. GoldenEye 3. Skyfall 4. From Russia With Love 5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service 6. Licence To Kill 7. For Your Eyes Only 8. The Living Daylights 9. The Spy Who Loved Me 10. Goldfinger Bond actors: 1. Daniel Craig 2. Pierce Brosnan 3. Timothy Dalton 4. Sean Connery 5. Roger Moore 6. George Lazenby

[@yuliangeorgiev]

Casino Royale was such a great movie. If only they could retain that level in future installments.

[@Quetzalcoatl83]

Casino Royale, Skyfall and No time to Die are the best.

[@Daniel__Nobre]

Yeah. Casino Royale is, for me, the most Bond movie of all. Skyfall was good but it was back to movie Bond again and it’s tropes. It was a bit of an attempt to bring all the Bond fans together with mixing the new (and closer to the original concept) Bond and the old movies Bond. But most have been just bad. Even the last one. Casino Royale, in my opinion, proved that we could have a serious Bond, like in the books. But it seems people just want cheap comedy and gadgets and so they just went back to it quickly. Hooray for popcorn casual viewers and focus groups, I guess..

[@alexsummers9140]

@@Quetzalcoatl83 You are exactly correct!

[@adampeel6161]

@@Daniel__Nobre Quantum of Solace doubled down the serious and gave us a shitty movie. Not because it was dark, but because it was shitty.

[@dirks4093]

Casino Royale is the only movie that is impressive. In fact, amazing! The others were a serious decline in likeability of the character, script, cast, and so much more.. Skyfall is the most overrated of them all. The last one I refuse to watch. I can't see them do what they did to Bond's character. Pure writing garbage --ever since after Casino Royale.

[@johnny5805]

Remember how the press HATED him. "James Blonde" they called him.

[@rolanddeschain6089]

It wasn't just the press. Above all, it was embittered internet fanboys who hate everything new at first.

[@jrock5830]

Oh, I remember the bitchy British press at the time though, some quite funny. The line that stuck was “he isn’t TERRIBLE looking, but he kind of looks like a dropped pear.” 😂 I mean they went from the prior guy who looked like a literal model from a middle age nappy commercial, to this one. So the bitchy press had a point in the context of the time. The thing was the new films HAD to have a different vibe. It wasn’t that the script, that made the reboot with Daniel Craig so good, it was that start of the Bourne franchise just DESTROYED what people expected of spy films, and the level of professionalism people were entertained by. If they hadn’t gone for the gritty new Bond aim, with nods to the past, then they would have killed the franchise. So they had to lose the cheesy jokes (mostly), put a more normal looking person in the role, lose the stupid gadgets (again, mostly), and the crazy womaniser jokes… “I thought Christmas only comes once…” for a pre-Craig example, in the the last one I think. Or Octopussy…. as the movie’s title. That crap wasn’t going to work. As an Omega watch fan, this was the first film where the Omega watch told the time… and that is it.

[@martinmarcos5340]

My mother has never had any serious opinion on any movies. She´s the casual viewer, like the lady who plays Candy Crush. Oh but when Daniel Craig was announced as the new James Bond, I remember her saying "But Bond has dark hair! How can he be blonde now??"

[@DeusExAstra]

It's amazing how different he looks here from his actual appearance in Casino Royale.

[@Jaythesparrow]

Looked better here, more like Bond than he did in the movie

[@rafflesxyz4800]

Exactly right.

[@olakarlsson7496]

He look so young. He aged fast.

[@RyanCooperOSUcoach]

​@@olakarlsson7496He didnt age that much. Especially compared to Connery and Moore (and Craig was Bond for longer).

[@fokthewef]

People can say whatever they want but this guy made Bond better. Before him bond was a joke. A caricature. When I watched Craig I was immersed in the danger that came with Bond's job.

[@realdonaldtrump4610]

And now it’s fucking ruined!

[@wdthompson1234]

Roger Moore made no secret of playing Bond as a joke. He said it had to be comedic and over the top. Not the Connery did it.

[@BarrySlisk]

Bond is supposed to caricature.

[@flemishgiant]

Spot on

[@bobgoran]

You exaggerate. It's too simplistic to dismiss the first 20 films as caricature. But you are probably just ignorant. Most of the scenes you see in the Craig movies are variations on scenes from previous Bond movies. The basic first-act formula - as used during the Craig films - was introduced already in Die Another Day with Bond being captured and then have to go on a personal mission before he "becomes" Bond. Campbell directed GoldenEye 11 years earlier and lots of stuff is reused for Casino Royale, including how Bond is written. In terms of quality, the Craig films covers the whole spectrum if you go by the general consensus from fans. From the very best to the very worst. Sort of like the Moore films. And the Connery films. And the Brosnan films. So what has changed really? And what will you say when we are 5-10 years into the next Bond Era?

[@markandresen1]

It's the way he carries himself here - and the voice, which may well have clinched it.

[@donlitos]

Sounds like he clinched it before he carried himself here

[@tayfuntuna]

It's noteworthy that he has that Brosnan look at these videos, but he shaped his own Bond down the road.

[@BrendanCescon]

I was just thinking the same thing!

[@cassiusclayreels]

Craig's style of Bond was very similar to Timothy Dalton's

[@patrickcaville8250]

Brosnan did cheer Craig up after facing the tension from the audience, so

[@NalaStitch]

Not a bond fan but he's owned the part and I've seen all of them. Thanks Daniel

[@sir_john_hammond]

"Not a bond fan" "Seen all of them" Which is it

[@TheMrSlyxx]

I never really loved a Bond movie till I saw Casino Royale with Daniel Craig. I got through the entire movie and found myself wishing it would just keep on going.

[@VianFlash]

same

[@donlitos]

You must be a chic

[@gustavusvasa5437]

Wow not even Sean Connery.... then again I'm old lol

[@AnantyaV]

I really loved Bond until he came.

[@sanekabc]

It was the director.

[@amritsaluja5267]

Go watch layer cake and see the bond before bond

[@danielhausser8038]

You know my name.

[@gamingflixx]

Great film 👍

[@How_are_ya_now_]

Fantastic movie

[@gamingflixx]

Also worth mentioning that Ben Whishaw (Q) also plays Sidney in Layer Cake. Tom Hardy is also in it but goes unnoticed.

[@danielhausser8038]

@@gamingflixx Whishaw also plays with Craig in The Trench.

[@lukeallan6486]

It's his great physique and unmatched combat acting skills that carried him through the franchise.

[@Frkr.]

Yes. That was the most boring part for me. No gadgets, no womanizer but brute force. Urgh. Good this bond is gone

[@steel1151970]

I find him more menacing and sinister than ever in this video, his smile seems made of ice

[@justinopinion1455]

I could play a younger hanibal lecter perfect...

[@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689]

Yeah with the longer hair he definitely has a creepy vibe. Shredded Daniel Craig bond would have a fist fight. This guy would just stick a knife between someone's ribs.

[@spectrenoir6339]

He could be a good bond, he has potential…

[@cookiesimp4221]

But he did turned out to be a good bond, well at least to me 😄, i think casino royale is Daniel’s best bond movie, he did pretty good job for portraying a whole new different bond concept from before, but anyway everyone have different opinion and I respect yours 👍

[@cookiesimp4221]

@@thegamingcook785 ​ HAHAHAHA OMG YESS 🤣 , i just realized it now, it's the usual jokes where it's like you predicting something as if it never happens when it actually already happened, loll idk how to explain it but yess i get it now, thank you and sorry bro for misunderstand your joke @SPECTRE NOIR 😅

[@jackwatsonepic626]

@@thegamingcook785 I "and many others knew you were joking it's called a dry sense of humour 🤣

[@LucaBrasi0]

I don't believe this guy could be Bond, too skinny and not blue eyes enough. Maybe one movie and then they replace him.

[@PeteNice29]

That "I don't really want to be here but I am so duty" vibe works extremely well in this iteration of Bond.

[@bassman1519]

Doesn't look anything like that in the movies. Lucky he got the part.

[@brinckau]

@@thegamingcook785 I'm pretty sure the point of a test footage is to see what the result will be.

[@matthunterman1]

He’s good but he didn’t look like bond until skyfall. Still my favorite bond movie

[@Gildete257]

Mine too

[@matthunterman1]

@@Gildete257 respect

[@justamerica856]

@Matt hunterman why didn't he?? Because he looked young??? If it's because he looked young give me a break LMAO. Sean connery looked just as baby faced in his first movie. And I love sean. Daniel Craig in CASINO Royale looks like bond. He has that cold assassin look and the eyes look cold that no others have. They all look like models and too charming.

[@matthunterman1]

@@justamerica856 no it’s the hair. In skyfall he looked like bond, his suit and his hair and facial expression was bond. That’s why I love skyfall. He was always great but he looks better in the skyfall

[@buffen2496]

@@matthunterman1 He looked most like Bond in Quantum.

[@rydmerlin]

This was after The Layer Cake and so it was obvious he could do the role.

[@megahurtz30]

2006... wow ! So Daniel is now the longest running Bond !! Connery did come back 20 years later for one final role, but it was an "unofficial" Bond movie, he only stayed around 10 years or so as a regular Bond..

[@Seannyg88sComputerRepair]

That was never say never it was an unofficial bond move hence why lathered wasn’t a gun barrel sequence Connery produced that one he had a part of the bond franchise

[@joshslater2426]

Connery was 9 years (if you don’t count his brief absence). More comes in 2nd at 13 years. Craig lasted longest, but had less films.

[@theragingrodent__]

I think the movement and the composure here is very much reminiscent of Connery, but the cold tone of voice and dry sarcasm is really the indication of the version of Bond we'd get in the final movie.

[@chrishandsome4267]

Great performance, hopefully he gets the job 🙏

[@jcw9539]

….?

[@mothiurNCL]

Every fanboy and fangirl claims their movie of their time (they were at their peak viewing pleasure) is the best James Bond. For me it was Timothy Dalton, the seriousness, the realism, no stunts, no silly type puns and unreal scenes or plots in relation to other movies of the series. Next I'd say the original Sean Connery for his acting and smoothness of the delivery.

[@randmayfield5695]

Dalton is my 2nd fav after Craig. My least fav was Moore. Connery was okay I guess. Olga Kurylenko from Quantum of Solace took first place for the Bond girls.

[@q.h.s5051]

@@randmayfield5695 Your comment screams "Modern Bond fan"

[@randmayfield5695]

@@q.h.s5051 I saw my first Bond movie in 1962 at the Roxy Theater in Pacific Beach, San Diego at the age of 8. It was Dr. No and that's when I became a fan so haven't missed one since then. The Catholic Digest had it listed as "sexual content" so my mom gave it a no-go for me. I snuck in anyways not really knowing anything about it other than I wasn't supposed to see it. My dad took me to see it again, so he could come back and report to my mom about what the big deal was. I think I remember him saying something about how all the female actresses tending to be "well endowed" with specific reference to Ursula Andress and her bikini. Those were great times to be alive. Remember the Saturday matinees? I saw the double feature matinee Goldfinger and Mysterious Island all for 35 cents. Lol My dad would always give me his "pocket-money" or loose change and tell me to make sure all my friends got what they wanted from the concession counter. I had wonderful parents.

[@otter011]

I love seeing screen tests. It’s so interesting to try to see what the casting director sees in the actor‘s potential. It’s such a huge difference to seeing actors after months of preparation in the actual filming of the movie/series

[@wetlazer2443]

I take it they saw him in Layer Cake and (perhaps secretly) wanted to use him based on his death scene from Layer Cake and intended for him to die as Bond. In I think it was Quantum, we see Craig exiting a building and killing a guy, I don't know if it was the same building where the Layer Cake character died, but it sure as shit felt like it.

[@midgelfc]

i remember when he was first officially unveiled as Bond, pretty sure they had him arrive by boat on the Thames. I was so disappointed that they picked him as he didn't have the swagger or charisma of other actors before him..... however he absolutely nailed Bond, his transformation from the screen test above to Casino Royale is unreal. Easily my favourite Bond. I'm glad he proved me and all the other initial haters wrong! However is up next will have a massive task to follow Daniel Craig!

[@techbetold]

every bond brought something unique to the role. this version was more physical, but also more relatable in his language and movements, whereas brosnan was more suave, roger more was more gentlemanly cool, and had old world sophistication and answers. connery was a magician almost, with an even calmer delivery than moore, didn’t need to exert so much physicality as he was two steps ahead of the bad guy, with charm and wit, and a trick up his sleeve. basically he was mr reliable even in a serious situation, where craig seems more vulnerable. they all played to their strengths, and bonds strength as well as much as they could. the best bond is all of those things combined, but that’s impossible to achieve with one actor.

[@music4real]

To be honest, I have no idea how they hired him based on that screen test. His look and that voice were just shocking lol. But I guess that's why casting directors get paid way more than me.

[@TinyDancer250]

They found him in "Layer Cake," Watch that, and you'll clearly see it.

[@roterfuchs8201]

The thing i love most about Daniel Craig is he is completely the same character in everything he is in, you could take clips from all of his films and edit them together and wouldn't notice a change, maybe he would be different ages & costumes but that will be all.

[@hoover728]

That’s a good thing?

[@BarrySlisk]

It's called not being able to act.

[@q.h.s5051]

That I feel was a downer for his Bond and what makes him my personal least favorite of the 007 Potrails (Eon only) He was less of James Bond after awhile and just himself, just Daniel Craig and there's nothing wrong with adding your own flair but he had a huge flair in the first two but it disappeared after Skyfall

[@hellolol5388]

So nostalgic.

[@purefoldnz3070]

and he hated every minute of it except the cash of course.

[@nostalgiawins8929]

Pierce Brosnan appeared more like a super rich business man than a spy. Daniel Craig for me is the best actor to play bond.

[@hw2508]

Well, Brosnan was Bond during a time when people wanted to see exactly that. Some of the movies were more about the gadgets and who plays the bond girls than about Bond. (Like the over the top Bond films with Roger Moore.) But I think there are some solid stories and Goldeneye is still one of my favorites. But, one usually likes what one grows up with. The actors can only work with what the producers, writers and directors allow them to work with.

[@vitravinay6056]

That's true😁

[@Laguna2013]

Connery and Craig the best of the best. Craig resurrected Bond

[@AndrewHeffernan]

Wish they’d shut up and let us hear him act.

[@grimmer2005]

I never understood WHY anyone would think of Craig as a Bond actor. He is SO far away from all the other previous Bond actors that all whera supergood. And he dont fit as Bond one bit.

[@geerstyresoil3136]

ignore the looks, it was the voice and demeanor that made him one of the best.

[@aliali-ce3yf]

henry cavill would've been great

[@csiny88]

Everytime I see Daniel Craig, he kind of looks like Vladimir Putin.

[@TheVideoScientist-bi7px]

"They kept trying to get us to meet people" Yes, I'll take "Introverts with Anxiety" for $400.

[@k.amitaiiyehoshuadeboe199]

i had to laugh at that 🤭

[@easydrive3662]

Roger moore was always my favourite, such good stage presence with true English gentlemans voice!

[@Butter-Milk]

He looks so different.

[@coyoteproject999]

yes, totaly. His haircut has a lot to do with it ! He's not James Bond yet at this time.

[@AlexanderPews]

this was just beta testing, the recordings and shootings where the alpha, and the whole movie the full relase lol

[@paulacurtis1874]

Aidan MacKay --- Daniel was 40 year's old in 2008. So he looks younger plus hadn't built-up his body muscles yet. He had his hair cut for the Bond movies. Change how he looked.

[@randmayfield5695]

Daniel Craig totally my favorite Bond. They were all good but Craig was a notch above the rest. Just saying.

[@pastohh]

They missed a trick with Clive Owen, he was born to play James Bond.

[@MrDjambronk]

Yeah, he got classic look of Bond.

[@yoshomiamoto]

Layer Cake gave him the practice he needed to land this role

[@daveg5857]

They were right about that one! I thought he was perfect in that role.

[@jasoncoladonato1034]

Pretty decent casting I’d say

[@sherimillman53]

I dont want to do it really. She had you when you walked through the door 😂

[@SCharlesDennicon]

It's incredible how much Craig aged in fifteen years.

[@rongendron8705]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@DipSet85]

Ended up being the best bond ever. I was knocking him before I even watched Casino Royale, in how he doesn’t even look the part. He proved me wrong. Big daniel Craig fan now

[@michaelgallagher7377]

He was the perfect choice, he revived the role and made it his own. The Best Bond for me.

[@purefoldnz3070]

worst bond by far.

[@cookieface80]

@@purefoldnz3070 He stumbled when he tried to become more like the previous movie versions of Bond. He was much more successful as a thug/blunt instrument Ian Flemming Bond.

[@purefoldnz3070]

@@cookieface80 he was a great actor but the problem was he hated the role and you can actually see his contempt for the character on screen. He only continued the role for lots lots lots of cash.

[@NickTheStallion]

Man, if his Bond had kept that hair, it would be an even more impressive performance, reminds a lot of Timothy Dalton.

[@sky-eo8tz]

The transformation was amazing to play the best james bond movie ever .

[@Valelacerte]

And he finished it off with No Time To Die, killing off Bond for the first time in 59 years.

[@tiffsaver]

When I heard that they selected Craig to be the next Bond I drank a toast to him. I knew that he'd kill it.

[@jkb81]

Most smug snd unlikable bond ever. He kinda looks like derrick o connor from lethal weapon 2.

[@desilvamarline5041]

He has the "look" of bond didn't have to say a word

[@akhila0762]

Sean Connery, pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig....my favorite bonds....

[@intherightmind9467]

Casino was a really good Bond movie. (i think the whole theater screamed in the last scene when Craig said the classic "Bond, James Bond"). The following was a mess. (stopped watching after Skyfall (aka home alone 4)

[@overthecounterbeanie]

Still think Henry Cavill would have been the better choice.

[@wolverineiscool7161]

lol

[@TheCoppoy]

he looks so goofy in these rehearshals but in the Casino Royale he is threatening and confident how is that possible?

[@MartenGehman]

it's the hair cut ;p

[@TheCoppoy]

@@MartenGehman props to a casting director

[@cookieface80]

Well, acting is a process. You have to find the character. It's like how most of your favourite songs probably sounded like shit in the first demo.

[@aapo616]

His haircut was cool, very english. But it was good decicion to cut the hair for Casino Royale, it was more brutal and hard.

[@ravimahara4741]

There are 'Bond' movies and there is "Casino Royale".

[@psyikk]

The way he opens and closes the door. That is SO Craig Bond. It's interesting to know he had that from the beginning.

[@somewhereu2]

Casino Royale was the only good Bond movie he made. It went down hill after that.

[@ceeal2943]

My favourite Bond after Connery, Moore, Brosnan, Dalton & Lazenby

[@weirdfkit]

I love this look of Daniel. Wish he had a similar look in atleast in one of the bond movies. But nevertheless he's a talented great actor.

[@ryanhoskins458]

*Odd that he wasn't very impressed by the script. Casino Royale was incredible, not to mention his performance in the films afterward. It 'had' to be him, he'll be missed*

[@whatbringsmepeace]

He's so much better looking now. Some people really age well.

[@squamish4244]

Just realized he played Bond for a longer time than anyone else, chronologically. He made five Bond movies in 15 years, and Roger Moore made seven in 12 years. Connery made seven, but only came back after 12 years for the last one. Like Connery, despite all those films, Craig won't always only be 'Bond'. He's followed the Connery path of acting in plenty of other notable stuff too.

[@valkiron11]

I can see why they chose him. He had that Bond face. He also appeared somewhat "pretty" before his debut, too reminiscent of the previous actors. He really needed to cut his hair and bulk up in order to become the more realistic and edgy Bond of our generation. Going to be difficult to top.

[@phillipmurphy4964]

I think cos he’s not beefed up and didn’t look like a bond people freaked out but when casino royale came out they loved him 🤓

[@Charleybones]

Sean will always be by far the best in my book, but Daniel Craig was certainly a fresh breath of air to the franchise when it really needed it. After 30 years of unthreatening cheeky actors which had turned the franchise into a stale gadget heavy cliche, Craig's violent portrayal of Bond put some bite back into the character. Craig only lacked the charming, playful side which Connery could turn on and off like his arched eyebrow and cat caught a bird smile while he screwed on the silencer and took care of business.

[@imfsresidentotaku9699]

"Unthreatening cheeky actors"? Even Roger Moore, the silliest Bond who saw the character as a joke, could be threatening when the situation called for it (he has the highest body count of any Bond!), Dalton really brought out the cold-blooded killer aspect of the character (although audiences weren't quite ready for that just yet), and Brosnan struck a nice balance between those two extremes.

[@sweaty_shooter7354]

Ever hear of British charm? Daniel Craig had it in spades, the wit and style all jokes were subtle absent over the top tongue and cheek from the former.

[@Michael_talks_]

Only good thing about my generation is that this guy is our James Bond

[@viditjain2653]

To me, Daniel's Bond is what the Nolan Trilogy is to Batman

[@rangersnut]

I love Bond movies and Roger Moore was my favourite Bond. I cannot watch any of the Daniel Craig Bond Movies. I still feel he doesn't look like Bond and I did try Casino Royale but I really didn't like the tone of it or Craigs portrayal.

[@Closedyh]

daniel craig used to look like a school teacher with that hairstyle

[@chrischros5804]

This shows that Bond is 90% haircut. The remaining 10% are lighting and furniture. :D

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Daniel Craig was an excellent James Bond.

[@WhiplashDynamo]

Is that Catherine McCormack standing in for Vesper?

[@daniel_tenner]

Craig back when he still looked human. Honestly I think turning Bond into a muscle bound super hero type instead of a suave Englishman was a serious miscast. Nothing wrong with Craig, he just wasn’t the right man for the job. But he did look more suited to it during the screen test than after he turned himself into He-Man… 😅

[@apostlexiii5125]

I thought this was a parody at first, lol. It doesn’t even look like him. 😂

[@starshipcaptain4753]

From a Connery fan, Craig made the best Bond and best Bond movies.

[@fellowcitizen]

Such a humourless thug, though. It should have been Jude Law.

[@Mark-lj1dj]

He was the perfect choice. No matter what any actor ever does, being James Bond will always be the pinnacle of their career. Just the ultimate honour

[@GauravKhatri]

Christopher Nolan's Biography Movie ..Well 😂😂😂🇳🇵✌️

[@stevefowler2112]

I thought he was tremendous in Casino Royale...the opening scene blew me away and cemented Mr. Craig as the new James Bond for me. Speaking cinematically, I was also very impressed with how tall he always looked, as Mr. Craig is only 5'10" and yet he wears the amazing Italian suits perfectly. BTW, I happen to be how Bond was described in the books: 5'11 3/4" and 178 lbs.

[@TheHungryTrollRawr]

he's been a great Bond, he carries himself well in a charming, confident but calculating manner.. as if he's thinking 3 steps ahead! He was also brilliant in the Girl with the Dragon tattoo!

[@tjacksondolph4026]

There's another type of "Test" he did to prepare for the role which helped his physique.

[@jcw9539]

I appreciate your opinion but I felt he didn’t fit the role I’m sure his dedication was beyond any of the others but got me he just didn’t look the part . Am reading the books as well which makes me even more convinced…. But this is my opinion…. I’m also afraid it felt like a Jason Bourne film rather than a bond film

[@BrandonPrive1432]

what a difference a haircut makes.

[@DryMyTears]

And that's how James Bond auditioned to be Daniel Craig.

[@dimitrispapadopoulos9245]

The last James nond movies is maybe the best ever. It was mind-blowing on eggects, story, acting, actors and craig wow.

[@iwonakowalska5638]

Henry Cavill would be a better Bond.

[@cryptojihadi265]

Craig MADE the Bond Movies. He turned it from a campy almost parody of itself to a serious AF spy thriller series. In my opinion he dethroned them all, first attempt!

[@VonWenk]

More than any actor since Connery, Craig embodies Bond for this generation. The four actors between them are all in Connery's shadow to some extend.

[@BarrySlisk]

That's exactly what made the movies boring and like all other action movies.

[@imfsresidentotaku9699]

There's nothing wrong with being campy. Anything campy is good. Craig may have made the Bond movies more serious than they were previously, but the earlier films knew how to balance that seriousness with humor. After all, there's room for comedy in any story, regardless of genre. The previous films could very well be "a serious AF spy thriller series," especially the ones with Dalton, who, as a thespian, sought to really get inside James Bond's head, and he pulled it off really well. However, audiences weren't quite yet ready for that kind of darker take on the character. But the point is that Craig did not "MAKE the Bond Movies," at least not that much more than his predecessors. They all played to their strengths and brought something different to the table. Craig didn't "dethrone them all," regardless of your opinion.

[@q.h.s5051]

Without the camp most of his Bond films are just downer depressing action films especially Spectre and No time to Die