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Crave Online: First of all, I want to thank you for being awesome.

Daniel Craig: All right, thank you. It's my pleasure.

Crave Online: How much fun are you having as Bond?

Daniel Craig: I mean, it's fantastic. These movies are an amazing experience to shoot and they're an amazing experience to work with the people I work with. Marc Forster on this has been a joy to work with. I'm a big fan of his movies so I'd love to have worked with him on any other movie. The whole collaborative effort of making a movie like this, it's a big deal. It's a really, really big deal. There were 1000 people who worked on this movie. At any one time, I'll be working with 200-300 people. We shot this for six months. It's a long time since I've been on a movie set on the last day of shooting where the first AD goes, "Okay, everyone, ladies and gentleman, that's a wrap." And everybody looked around at each other and just went, "Okay, we've done something here." It was a huge thing and I think it's on the screen. I think it's up there.

Crave Online: Were you relieved that Casino Royale turned out so well?

Daniel Craig: Of course I was. I was amazed, stunned that it did so well, absolutely stunned.

Crave Online: If Casino Royale hadn't been so good, would you have been more nervous coming back?

Daniel Craig: Yes. Definitely.

Crave Online: Your Bond is the first one we've seen this vulnerable, even with On Her Majesty's. Where else can this go?

Daniel Craig: I think we've finished, we've tail ended these. These movies stand up alone. They're two very separate movies, two stylistically separate movies but we've completed the circle in these movies. We can do anything.

Crave Online: How do you like your Bond girls this time?

Daniel Craig: Olga's character I just think is, there's strength in it. She’s fantastic. She’s done a great job. She was thrown in the deep end with this and the part was about somebody on a vendetta, somebody with a deep past and they come together. They’re a foil for each other in this because Bond actually isn’t on a vendetta. He’s trying to come to terms with losing the love of his life and kill the bad guys which obviously goes without saying. Gemma's character, Fields, is so great because they get together and it's lovely and it's a bit of fun and [then] it's not.

Crave Online: Judi Dench counts too.

Daniel Craig: It’s a great thing to have because he can behave like a misogynist, behave badly, he does the things he shouldn’t do, he’s amoral or morally ambiguous and M is the grounding. She makes it make sense. Very lovely. Every time we do a scene together it's easy. She just makes my job easy because I have total confidence in her.

Crave Online: Did she ad lib?

Daniel Craig: She messed around a bit. She did, I think she messed around. I don't think she ad libbed that much but she did mess around a bit.

Crave Online: Did you know Judi Dench before these films?

 

Daniel Craig: Briefly. Just to bow to. She’s immense.

Crave Online: Have you and the producers and director thought about where you want him to go from here?

Daniel Craig:  No. We’ve got so much on our plate just trying to get one movie out. We’ve had discussions but there’s never any [certainty]. Again, whether Paul Haggis does the next one or whether we’ll get another writer involved, we want their creative input. And to say, "This is what we want," it puts up barriers, it puts up walls. You want someone with creativity and talent to come in and go, "I’ve got a good idea."

Crave Online: You could continue on with the Quantum idea.

Daniel Craig: We could do. I think that there’s definitely room. It could take it right up into governments. We could take it anywhere.