My name is Craig…Danial Craig
From GRANT ROLLINGS
In Chile
Published: April 5th
The U.K. Sun
SEVEN thousand miles from home,
9,000ft above sea level and deep in the world’s
driest desert, the secrets of the new James Bond
film are unraveling.
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007 movie sets are always well guarded,
but The Sun has managed to penetrate the
baddies’ lair in South America during the making
of the new film, Quantum Of Solace.
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I am the only British journalist watching as
DANIEL CRAIG runs, leaps and shoots —
bulging biceps pumping —
in sweltering temperatures
at a height which induces
altitude sickness in others.

Yet the powerfully built actor hardly breaks sweat
during the punishing action sequence.
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And the good news is that we can expect 40-year-old
Daniel to continue as the world’s most famous spy
for many years to come.
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He tells The Sun:
“Until my joints go I will keep
going as Bond.
I have no intention of giving
up just yet.”
There had been speculation that Daniel might only
complete his current three-movie deal and he had said:
“It’s important that we make the best movies possible,
so I can hopefully sit back in semi-retirement at
some point and look back and think they were
wonderful movies.”
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But it is clear that after 2006’s Casino Royale
became the highest grossing Bond ever —
taking £325m globally — the film company
would not want to let him go.
Producer Barbara Broccoli, whose EON
production company make the Bond films,
clung on to Daniel for dear life when the words
“semi-retirement” passed his lips.
Being Bond seems to agree with Daniel.
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He is a totally different man from the previously
serious and occasionally grumpy actor.
During our interview he frequently laughs
and jokes with Barbara.
When asked about nude scenes in
Quantum Of Solace, she cuts in:
“I’m trying to get him to take his
clothes off every day.”
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And Daniel retorts:
“It’s not helped by her
leaking to the Press every day,
‘He might do, he might do’.”
Then he confirms:
“There is a little nudity.
It might not be full.”
Two of the biggest rumors to have emerged
during the making of Quantum Of Solace
are that both Bond and Daniel are going to get hitched.
But he bats off both rumors with surprising
good humor.
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Co-star GEMMA ARTERTON has admitted
her character Agent Fields had been in a
honeymoon suite with Bond.
‘
Daniel laughs and points out:
“You don’t have to get married to go into a
honeymoon suite and have a good time.” ’
And on suggestions he has popped the
question to long-term girlfriend SATSUKI MITCHELL,
he replies:
“It’s a very important moment in a person’s life.
I wouldn’t make an official announcement because
I am not a member of the Royal Family.”
The interview takes place under the large glass dome
of the European Southern Observatory’s ultra-modern
residence for astronomers at Paranal,
in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
.
In the film the building will appear as an eco-hotel
in Bolivia from where Bond’s new nemesis,
Dominic Greene, is hatching a plot to take
control of water resources.
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Greene’s company, Greene Planet,
pretends to be environmentally friendly,
though the main plot, which continues on
from Casino Royale, is about revenge
rather than the environment.
Daniel explains: “At the end of Casino Royale
the love of Bond’s life has been taken from him.
But Vesper Lynd had also been forced to betray him
and she has ripped him apart.
That’s where he’s at.
There is a sense of vengeance. He’s out to get them.”
Bond wants revenge on the secret organization
which forced Vesper to betray him and that leads
him to Greene,
played by French actor MATHIEU AMALRIC.
Daniel says: “Mathieu has been fantastic.
He’s very evil.”
Quantum Of Solace promises to be even more
action-packed than ever, with a speedboat chase
and a sky-diving stunt.
Daniel says:
“We are going from stunt sequence to stunt sequence.
We did a body flight thing where you are free-falling
in a wind tunnel.
That was tough.
“I did a two-day fight sequence which we had
been rehearsing for two months.
That was physically very hard —
getting hit, basically.

“We are going to Siena in Italy next week
and we are going to be working at heights.
The speedboat sequence was also very hard.
Filming on water is always difficult.”
You have to admire anyone who can run
about in such harsh conditions as the
Paranal Observatory.
I felt queasy just walking around at the peak
and 16 people got medical assistance in just the
one day I was there. Daniel says:
“I have been running up and down here all day
and it does feel hard at this altitude.
“Apparently you feel a ton better when you
get back down to sea level,
which is something I am looking forward to.”
The one thing Daniel is not keen
to discuss is his fitness regime.
He has been criticized about not being
tough enough to play 007 and says:
“Bond used to do ten press-ups and
smoke 50 cigarettes and drink a bottle of
something and pop a pill.
So it doesn’t sound very Bond-like to talk
about fitness regimes.”
And while he clearly is the fittest of all the
six Bond actors, Daniel doesn’t want to be
remembered merely for his six-pack.
So one last quip from the new,
all-smiling Daniel Craig:
“At the end of this movie we film a scene
where I’m fat — because I don’t want
to be remembered as the physical Bond.”
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