SimplyAbuDhabi VII

2 7 7 S I M P LY A B U DH A B I Does it feel different than the last two films? Craig: Yeah, definitely. In what way? Craig: In every way, really. We’ve got a different team together; some old faces are still here. Again, talking about how it’s such a rare thing to make movies like this, and to be given the chance you have to give it all you’ve got. Now I’m at the stage where all I want to do is start showing this to an audience to get that reaction, to see how they react to it. I think it’s quite special, what we’ve got. Here’s hoping, who knows? You took two movies to learn Bond… Craig: Did I? Take it back! (laughs) I’m still learning. Are you in a comfort zone now? Craig: No, not at all. I’d hate to feel in a comfort zone while I was working. That’s not the way I like to do things. You want to be pressurised and you want to be challenged every day, and we are for sure on this movie challenged every day with something. It’s just a relief for us – we’ve been filming at Pinewood in sort of fairly dark locations for the past however long it’s been, so it’s great to come to Turkey and film in some amazing, beautiful locations. It feels like an old fashioned Bond movie. Last week Rory, the president of distribution of Sony, announced Bond 24 for I guess late 2014… Broccoli: He was getting a little overexcited (laughs). We’re just actually focusing on this movie. One hopes that in the future we’ll be announcing other films, but no-one’s officially announced it. Craig: No one’s announced anything. He got a little ahead of himself (laughs). It’s very nice that he has the confidence to be able to do that, but we haven’t finished this movie yet. A lot of people enjoy little Easter eggs, are you guys already thinking about planting seeds of things? Craig: As in chocolate Easter eggs? (laughter) Craig: What is an Easter egg? Explain to me what an Easter egg is. Broccoli: You mean little things in this movie, or in the future? Yeah, like connective tissue. Broccoli: Homages and things like that. Well I think being here in Istanbul is reminiscent, it echoes From Russia With Love. Craig: What you’re talking about is actually planning things for the next movies? Uh, no. And why would we tell you if we did? (laughs) There’s been a lot of talk about how this has personal stakes for Bond. What does that require fromyou in your performance that maybe makes it more personal than the previous things we’ve seen? Craig: I don’t think personally, it’s about the character and how he lives the experience. Again, just harkening back to the script, through a lot of hard work I think we’ve kind of got together a script that has a really strong bedrock of a story and something for all the characters – of which there are a lot in this movie – to sort of experience. There are very personal stories in it and hopefully the audience will get affected by them and moved by them. It’s just a good acting job to do.