Craig told them: “I can come in and try and reinvent it, because that to me is fascinating and interesting.”
“Instead of them saying, ‘Thanks very much, bye,’ they said, ‘Yeah, that’s exactly what we want you to do.'”
“The deal was, I said to [producers] Barbara [Broccoli] and Michael [G Wilson] before I read the script – it’s so arrogant, it’s ridiculous – I just said I can’t do an impression of something that’s come before,” Craig said.
The actor signed on to play 007 in the 2006 film Casino Royale and played him thee more times up until Spectre in 2017.