He just looked a little young back then.”

He looked amazing, he was in great physical shape… very handsome, very chiseled. And if Daniel didn’t exist, Henry would have made an excellent Bond. “He was superb during the audition,” explains Martin Campbell. He was 22 years old when Daniel Craig was already 37 and better embodied the mature and brutal direction that the saga wanted to take. The most obvious comes from the fact that the actor, then noticed in the Superman costume, was too young for the role. In an interview with British media Daily Express, the New Zealand director gave, almost 17 years after the film’s release, the reasons which pushed the producers of the franchise to choose Daniel Craig rather than Henry Cavill in the role of Her Majesty’s spy. Really not far, if we are to believe Martin Campbell, the director of Goldeneye And Casino Royale. Here Bond is aided by stunningly beautiful Bond Girl and British treasury operative Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), earnest CIA agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), and dapper MI6 agent Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini), though Bond gets impatient when they cramp his style.In 2005, Henry Cavill came close to becoming James Bond.

All of this is warm-up for the big showdown with the requisite dastardly, damaged villain Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), which centers around a high-stakes poker game. And then he destroys much of the Miami Airport in order to stop a bomb's explosion. First he chases one man through the 'Nambutu Embassy' in Madagascar, wreaking havoc and, as M puts it, violating 'the only inviolate rule of international relations.' Later, he beds a villain's wife (Caterina Murino) to extract information, leaving her open to terrible retribution.

Bond's early 007 adventures involve all manner of brutality and rule-breaking, as he fixes on his targets with unshakable ferocity. Starring Daniel Craig as Secret Agent 007, director Martin Campbell's CASINO ROYALE takes viewers back to James Bond's beginnings, when M ( Judi Dench) elevates him to the extra-special rank of 007.

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