Daniel Craig called one of his James Bond movies a “f–king nightmare.”
The actor — who played the British spy in the 007 franchise from 2006 to 2021 — recalled how “difficult” it was to film “Quantum of Solace” after the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
“F–king nightmare,” he said of the movie to the Hollywood Reporter in a new interview published Saturday.
“[Writer] Paul Haggis did a pass on the script, then he went off and joined a picket line, and we didn’t have writers, so we didn’t have a script,” the 56-year-old actor explained.
“We probably should never have gone and started production, but we did.”
Craig said he “ended up writing a lot of that film” because WGA rules allowed some actors to work with directors and write scenes.
“But there’s some amazing stunt sequences in that, and I’m still bearing the pins to prove it, so in that sense, there’s a lot of great stuff in it, but it just didn’t quite work,” he added.
“The storytelling wasn’t there. And that’s the abject lesson: going to start a movie without a script, it’s just … not a good idea.”
The “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” actor previously revealed that he injured himself several times while filming “Quantum of Solace,” which further delayed production.
“The physical side of the movies was just the job. I had to do it. I trained, learned the fights, that’s kind of my brain not working,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 2022.
“I put way more work into the creative side of those movies than I did into the physical side of those movies.”
Craig ended his time as Bond in 2021 when he took on the role one last time in “No Time to Die.”
In the film, the actor’s character was dramatically killed off when he sacrificed himself to a deadly missile attack to save the woman he loved and the daughter he had just learned he fathered.
Craig said he chose to end his legendary run as Bond there so that he “could move on.”
“I don’t want to go back. I suppose I should be so lucky if they were to ask me back, but the fact is I need to move on from it,” he told the LA Times.
“The sacrifice that he makes in the movie was for love and there’s no greater sacrifice. So it seemed like a good thing to end on.”
