He's been played by an Irishman and an Australian. It's generally considered any English speaking country but not North American. For me Australian and Kiwi is a stretch. Irish is fine.
He’s aged the best of any actor who ever took on the role. Everyone else who stayed on for more than 2 movies had a noticeable change from when they started to when they stopped. With Craig he’s changed very little which is very impressive. Especially when you consider he’s had to work harder than every other actor before him in regard to acting and stunt work and because of idiots who bash on him because he doesn’t look like a Kennedy era definition of a stud. He’s been better than most every actor before him and I personally feel he’s been better than Sean Connery although I know most wouldn’t agree. He’s like Connery if they didn’t hold him back to be more marketable to audiences of the 60s.
Daniel Craig‘s a smart guy. He know‘s about the danger of a shitstorm if you speak out the truth. And the truth is that James Bond is a white heterosexual man. You will not cast Jackie Chan to play Malcolm X
You wouldn't get Jackie Chan to play Malcolm X because Malcolm X was a real person. James Bond is a character from a book that was made up. It can be whoever the producers want it to be.
SweetJohnnyCage Ian Fleming had an exact idea of James Bond based on real existing persons. Non of them was black, asian, gay etc. And please don‘t misunderstand me. This isn‘t about racism or homophobia. It‘s about an iconic personality who shouldn‘t be changed. Same with other fictive Characters. Dolph Lundgren as Shaft? No Idris Elba as Robin Hood? No Julia Roberts as Foxy Brown? No
I'm a woman, but in my opinion Bond will and should always be a man. Like Daniel said, there should always be other great roles for women, it doesn't have to be Bond.
This man literally had 2/3 of the Bond fanbase against him and his blonde, bulky Bond when he was chosen and the guy just delivered Casino Royale . . .
Wrong, he delivered in every movie afterward. Just because he isn’t a walking example of a Kennedy era stud doesn’t mean he’s not great for the role. Craig has been more convincing than half the actors before him. Even in misfires like QOS and Spectre he has delivered and he displayed more range in Skyfall than almost any actor before him could display.
The idea of changing bond's ethnicity or sex is a death knell for the character waiting to happen. The character of Bond has had some pretty consistent traits through his run, and the more you change those traits, the less like Bond he becomes. Bond has always been an ethnically white Scottish man. His image was based on Hoagy Carmichael, and that visual has been pretty well adhered to along the way, so much so that the common image of him builds up an historical expectation. Could a black person or a female play an excellent spy in a fun movie? Sure, but no matter what you called the character, it wouldn't be Bond. Similarly, you could cast Bond as a female Indian dwarf with a bright pink mohawk and probably make a really entertaining movie, but again, it wouldn't be Bond. The only difference in those examples is the level of change to the character we're talking about. Change his hair colour, fans grumble. It all scales badly from there as the changes become progressively obvious. Fans of an established character tend to feel cheated by these politically driven changes, and the business pact between entertainer and audience is then broken, and they stop turning up with their money. They came for Bond, but they get 'not--Bond'. Word gets out, and people who 'were' going to come and watch Bond, find out ahead of time it's actually 'not-Bond', and they don't bother turning up. Box-office under performs, and the director blames it on the audience for not accepting his or her deception. That's how that works. Instead of wrecking an established character, surely just write a vehicle from the ground up as a black actor or female actress? Make it incredible, well written and brilliant, and people will want to watch it, but smuggling in a political ideology by hijacking an established franchise won't end well, as Paul Feige might attest.
you hit the nail on the head sir,a lot of people,including me wont be going to see a female bond,ever,like you said,there are enough roles where female actors can show their masculin treats,wonder woman,atomic blonde,black widdow,hanna,haywire,hunger games,kill bill,etc,did i miss some? lol,they only want to replace male character,period
@@dylanlarge11 I watched one episode of it with Jodie in the role to give it a chance and just switched off. It didn't feel like Dr Who any more. That said, I knew they were going to do it the moment they changed the Master to female. That was them testing the water with the public and laying out the precedent of Time Lords regenerating into a different sex. Sure enough, the very next Dr turns out to be a vaguely female androgyne in gender neutral clothing.
I don’t mind James bind being black because I think Iris Elba would genuinely be the best actor out of all the choices to play bond but he’s gotta fancy women and bond can’t be a women. Just make a franchise a soy franchise as kl as bond but with a women as the main character dint just steal another franchises idea and turn it into a women. I think Idris would make a great bond cos he’s British and he’s cool and he can do stunts and he’s the right kinda age but not a women and they gotta fancy women
Ppl outside of america think blk is offensive while in america its vice versa. When you lived in both countries, you realize different countries have different norms of respect.
I got Daniel Craig's autograph in 2004. When I heard he was going to be James Bond I was over the moon. Daniel Craig was an excellent darker James Bond. Casino Royale. Quantum of Solace and Spectre were my favourites of the Craig era. I shall look forward to watching No Time To Die and I shall miss Craig as 007.
@@dansky9674 No. I didn't know who I was going to get his autograph. My deceased grandmother got him to sign his autograph for my 20th birthday. I was chuffed when I got it that day.
@@alfieford95 Bond fan my entire life, and your right, don't know what the fuck their doing or what direction their going in BUT she's pissing over her father's (Cubby Broccoli) and Ian Fleming's creation
Daniel politely ended the conversation about a woman or a black man being bond when he said, they don't need to be bond. They need to have a character written.
Got to say I was a Connery man until Craig's Bond. He gave the role a gritty realism, a traumatic backstory that shaped Bond's character, making him the perfect disposal blunt weapon of last resort. Made the previous incarnations seem too polished, too glib, too sane.
Daniel. My family and I are the biggest Bond's fan. When you came first I didn't like you because you were so different that the others on film but after Casino Royale I felt in love with your interpretation of Bond. Now my favorite one is Skyfall with Judy Dench. The relationship on film was fantastic. You both are great actors, it is a shame that she isn't on Bond's any more. Best M ever!!!
It won’t happen but I’d love to see Cavill as Bond, although he’d have a trifecta of iconic and legacy characters with Sherlock, Superman, and Bond under his belt
I love his response when he says only if it’s done right and it fits the role don’t force a different race or sexual identity into a role that wasn’t there before just to do it. A great idea would be make new and original roles for black people and gay people and everything else don’t change what’s already been established. That clearly has never worked before
@@Whoshotmyrifle I don't necessarily think so, like Craig said if its the right person they'll do well in the part. For example, I think Idris Elba would make a brilliant bond. Frankly, I like him more than the white british actors they are currently looking at. He has all the charm, charisma, and coolness that Bond would need. Now, making bond a women would be a bad idea, because I feel like one of the main aspects of the bond films is this idea that Bond is a womanizer and the incorporation of femme fatale characters in the story. I think you would lose that.
I knew Daniel Craig would become Bond after watching LayerCake because his character in that movie showed us hints of that Bond coolness we've grown to enjoy.
I mean wouldn’t you be offended if Adam Sandler was cast as MLK Jr and the only way the movie director made Sandler look black was to put brown paint all over him?
Johannes Fiedler why? What a stupid thing to say 😂😂 James Bond shouldn’t be a woman but 007 is anyone’s game. If you retired from your job a woman may take your place*. it’s the exact same thing for 007. People need to chill. I would completely understand if the character of James Bond was becoming Jane Bond but he’s not. *unless your a male escort
I hate that because he said it, bond had to say it to. No there will never be an AA as bond, not because of the black thing. But the ducking American thing
Look at price of plastic surgery in miami/los angeles. For just 10 000$ you can look 20 years younger 😂 i cant imagine how effective are the 200 000$ plastic surgery he is able to afford
Any man who kills looks banged up, roughed up, damaged. That inevitable trait was missing in every prior Bond actor. They were pretty, debonaire and showed no scars from their murderous past. Craig is not pretty. He carries that eternal pain, that scarred soul, his cross to bear for having killed.
Random RU-vid Idiot Ok no English ancestry, explain why Pierce Brosnan played bond for FOUR movies, he’s an Irish man, Elba is more English than him! Elba is every bit as British as every bond! He grew up in England
@@conor1666 !!..Am a black guy my but would prefer bond to stay white and let the blacks have their own original character. bond has always been white. i rather be an orignal than to copy.
@@mosesgeorge9426 I just don't think the race of james bond matters all that much, Idris is perfect for the part! my problem will be if they make james bond a female, which is completely absurd.
Daniel really perfected the answer to that shitstorm of a question about non white male Bond. He gave the safe answer of “everyone should be considered” but also hinted at his true opinion that Bond doesn’t need to be diversified
@@harjonotanuwira8226 I think I was making a joke (two years ago) about how some people mispronounce his surname as 'Cregg' 😂 I'm from the UK, I know it's Craig 😆
Sitting him next to a black woman being interviewed by a black male and being asked a question like that, can't help he felt a little trapped on answering this question... well, i hope so.
Just watched the most recent film and it was amazing! I don’t know if there will be a better bond than Daniel ….oh also there was subliminal messaging in the movie that reminded me of this pandemic…
@@super018 No another dumb rumor. They won't do that. The movie would make about 9 cents at the BO. You don't piss all over the legacy of James Bond. The fans will rebel..
@@super018 in a new Bond movie that is highly unlikely. They may be dumb enough to give her 007 title in the new movie with Bond as Daniel Craig in it. But she won't be Bond in her own movie. Even Hollywood isn't that retarded.
Daniel is trying to say that no, Bond shouldn't be Black or a women, and does it by making a great point in saying create other characters that way. But not Bond. You wouldn't make Black Panther a white man so why make Bond a black man.
So sad that every new movie has to have a mandatory black person, the "diversity" political agenda is so obvious and makes the movies so shit. Bond is and will always be a british man, stop ruining it hollywood.
@@SupportTheLittleGuy Exactly. I'm Indian (Born and raised in California my whole life) and I've literally NEVER complained about this diversity bs even though Indians are literally *NEVER SHOWN* in American Movies/Shows. And whenever people say "We want Diversity!" they always just add a Black person. As if Black people represent ALL people of color. Honestly, it's just dumb.
Well, that got awkward fast. Daniel Craig is wrong-footed by the interviewer, who uses the term 'African American', when I would have thought the next actor is unlikely to be American at all. Then you can almost hear poor Craig's panicked thought process in that stammering response: 'Oh God, oh God, which is the correct term to use?' And then he overcompensates by widening the scope of the answer. I felt sorry for him here - he seems like a nice guy being dealt a minefield of a question. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all just relax about this stuff? I don't think I've ever known, or even heard of, a black person who found the term 'black' offensive or disrespectful. Barring some terms that are obviously _designed_ to be insulting, It's all about context and intention, I think. Inventing ever-more elaborate ways to describe someone's ethnicity in order to avoid offending anyone is doing nobody any favours.
This is not being RACIST... The history of real 007 code is British. There couldn't be any other nationalities to the main character. People need to realise and respect the fact that every main character can be a multi race, and that doesn't make a movie racist at all... Imagine if there's an important event in history of Ghana involving one of their own local heroes. Would it sounds good bringing in a white British actor to play such main role in a movie?
