We can finally confirm what most of us pretended we didn’t already know. Daniel Craig is not contemplating over who the next James Bond is going to be. In fact he doesn’t care too much. Lowkey this would be me too if I played the same character for almost 20 years. In a moment going viral from the Variety interview below, Daniel Craig talks about James Bond and much more with co-star Drew Starkey.
Craig and Starkey are leading stars in Challengers director Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film Queer. To promote the upcoming film, Variety hosted a game of “How Well Do They Know Each Other?” between the actors testing their knowledge of one another.
When Craig was asked who he would want to see play James Bond next he said a simple, “I don’t care.” This was not the only Bond mention that pointed to Craig’s relief to be done with the role. The interviewer asked the actors how many James Bond films Craig has made. Craig said he would get the answer wrong. Starkey wrote, “too many,” to which Craig responded “exactly” while laughing.
Craig originally became the new English agent in 2006 for Casino Royale, which is absolutely crazy. That’s literally before the first iPhone came out. Imagine playing a character for so long that most young people don’t even know he wasn’t the original Bond. Not going to lie…I am guilty of this.
In 2022 after releasing his last film as Bond, No Time to Die, Craig expressed zero regret about moving on from the role in an interview with the BBC saying, “I had an incredibly fortunate 17 years of my life making this. I literally want to spend the next 20 years of my life trying to unhook it all and try and put it into a place because it was incredible. I left it where I wanted it to be. And that I was given the chance to do that with the last movie.”
I for one am so excited to see Craig take on new roles after loving his portrayal of southern detective Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out series. Daniel Craig as a queer American guy who travels outside the country for some reason that isn’t because he wants a nice vacation! Yes, I’ll take two. Craig will be portraying William Lee in the upcoming film Queer releasing on Nov 27.