I have grown older: Daniel Craig

Hollywood star Daniel Craig says he has grown too old to play super spy James Bond, as he is required to perform demanding stunts in the Bond movies. The actor makes his fifth and final appearance as 007 in No Time to Die, the release of which was postponed several times during the Covid pandemic, and he has now overtaken the late Sir Roger Moore’s record as the longest-serving Bond.

Craig realised he was aging for the part after struggling with injuries while playing the very athletic spy. He lost two teeth on his first outing as Bond, in 2006’s Casino Royale, sliced off a fingertip filming 2008’s Quantum of Solace, and fractured his ankle on No Time to Die.

“I still do as many stunts as I can because I enjoy the physicality of it — I always have, even before Bond. But I have grown older and don’t bounce back as well as I did. I’ve hurt myself on every single Bond movie since I started, it’s just par for the course,” Craig said. The actor confirmed, again, that No Time to Die will be his last 007 film. —IANS