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‘Cleaner’ Director Martin Campbell on Combating ‘Die Hard’ Comparisons, Looking Back at His Bond Legacy and Turning Down ‘The Mask of Zorro’ Three Times
‘Cleaner’ director Martin Campbell talks about ‘Die Hard’ comparisons, looks back at James Bond and discusses turning down ‘The Mask of Zorro’.
After directing not one but two pivotal entries in the James Bond franchise, “GoldenEye” and “Casino Royale,” Martin Campbell has accomplished more than enough to earn a permanent place in the action movie firmament. In it, Daisy Ridley plays a former soldier-turned-window washer enlisted to defeat a radical eco-terrorist group that takes over an energy company’s corporate headquarters after discovering that her disabled brother is among their hostages. When time came to make “Casino Royale,” did you feel more confident coming back to the franchise, or was there enough unpredictability with a new Bond actor that it felt like a different kind of tightrope walk?
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