Latest / Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest / Why Daniel Craig Was POSITIVE He Should Not Be James Bond
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Seacrest. As the world gears up for next
- 0:04Speaker 1: week's arrival of the final James Bond film, starring Daniel
- 0:07Speaker 1: Craig as Double O seven, He's been expressing how much
- 0:09Speaker 1: the role has meant to him, but he also just
- 0:12Speaker 1: shared how convinced he was that he wasn't right for
- 0:15Speaker 1: the job when producers first approached him about playing Bond
- 0:17Speaker 1: back in oh five. Reeling to the crowd at the
- 0:19Speaker 1: bapt event in London, I told him, quote, thank you,
- 0:22Speaker 1: it's flattering, but I think you've got the wrong guy.
- 0:24Speaker 1: People say you must have always wanted to play James
- 0:26Speaker 1: Bond kind of as a kid. I thought about it.
- 0:29Speaker 1: I wanted to be Spider Man as well, but never
- 0:31Speaker 1: thought it would happen. I never even thought it would
- 0:34Speaker 1: come on my radar and worried. It's such an awful
- 0:36Speaker 1: lot of pressure and just going to be such a
- 0:38Speaker 1: momentous thing. Am I ready? The words of Daniel Craig
- 0:41Speaker 1: clearly he was ready, as Double seven films have gross
- 0:44Speaker 1: billions of dollars worldwide. He's also through his last Bond film,
- 0:48Speaker 1: No Time to Die, is getting a proper release in
- 0:50Speaker 1: theaters October eight. That's from Hollywood,