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Daniel Craig Calls New James Bond Film “A Dream Situation”

AP Photo/Joel Ryan. Daniel Craig and the new Bond girls.

  Daniel Craig talks about the production on the new 007 movie Skyfall while doing promotion for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

  Craig says working with Director Sam Mendes “a dream situation” and “…the cast is stunning. I’m on the set, you know, with Ralph Fiennes, Judi Dench…Javier Bardem turned up the other day. I couldn’t be in a better place, we couldn’t be in a better place. Sam is doing an amazing job. The movie looks great. There’s going to be everything you want from a Bond movie…(laughs)just like I’m selling it doesn’t it, and more.”

  For more of Daniel Craig’s BBC audio interview including his praise for reporters and what the character Lisabeth Salander would think of James Bond click here. Craig’s character is a crusading journalist and Salander is his researcher in the new film based on the Millenium Trilogy.

Daniel Craig on SKYFALL Director

AP Photo/Joel Ryan. Daniel Craig and the new Bond girls.

Daniel Craig reveals his bigger behind the scenes role in the new 007 film Skyfall because of his experience on the last film Quantum of Solace to Time Out London.

Daniel Craig says he pushed for Sam Mendes as director of the next James Bond film.

“He’s English. He’s Cambridge educated, he’s smart. He’s lived with Bond his whole life. He grew up with Bond the way I did. I said to him, “We have to do this together, we have exactly the same reference points. We both like the same Bond movies. We both like the same bits in the same Bond movies we like.”

Craig referenced From Russia, With Love and Live and Let Die as films he talked about with Mendes.

Daniel Craig talks about working with David Fincher on his new film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in the exclusive interview with Time Out London.

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