{"id":154798,"date":"2022-12-11T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/this-is-it-i-dont-want-to-do-any-more\/"},"modified":"2022-12-11T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:28:02","slug":"this-is-it-i-dont-want-to-do-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/this-is-it-i-dont-want-to-do-any-more\/","title":{"rendered":"‘This is it. I don’t want to do any more’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniel Craig reflects on his decision to part ways with James Bond. (Photo: Mike Marsland\/Getty Images for Omega)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Warning: This post contains spoilers about <\/strong>No Time to Die <\/em><\/strong>and the fate of James Bond. <\/strong><\/p>\n

After five Bond films, Daniel Craig has officially handed in his license to kill. But the British actor says he sealed his character’s fate just as his first 007 outing, 2006’s Casino Royale<\/em>was hitting theater screens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was driving away from the Berlin premiere of Casino Royale<\/em> with [producer] Barbara Broccoli,\u201d the 54-year-old actor tells the Sunday Times<\/em> in a new interview. \u201cI had genuinely thought I would do one Bond movie, then it would be over. But by then we knew we had a hit on our hands. I realized the enormity of it, so I said to Barbara, ‘How many more? three? four?’ She said, ‘Four!’ I said, ‘OK. Then can I kill him off?’ She said, ‘Yes.’\u201d<\/p>\n

And that’s just what happened with Craig’s fifth and final turn as James Bond, No Time to Die<\/em>. Released last year after an 18-month-long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the franchise’s 25th movie dying ended with the secret agent dying, having chosen to sacrifice himself for the sake of his family.<\/p>\n

“I said, ‘This is it. I don’t want to do any more,'” Craig says of going into his final film. Even so, he wanted to give the spy a noble death, tasking Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who worked on the film’s screenplay, with creating an ending that showed Bond’s humanity. infected with nanobots programmed to kill his lover and their young daughter, Bond stays behind on an island he knows will soon be struck by missiles.<\/p>\n

“Real tragedy is when you have absolutely no choice,” Craig notes. \u201cWe had to find a way to make his death no choice. It was the happiest Bond had ever been because he’d found exactly what he was looking for. Like everyone on Earth, he was just looking for love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bond’s death also presented an opportunity for the beloved franchise \u2014 even if the studio wasn’t quite ready to accept it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we kill Bond, we can begin again,\u201d Craig says. \u201cI think Barbara thought that too. But, bless them, the studio, MGM, were, like, ‘What are you talking about? Are you out of your minds ?’ There was reluctance. So we had to do it in secret, really.\u201d<\/p>\n