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Daniel Craig On Playing ‘Queer’, Killing Bond And Being Nominated For A Golden Globe: “I Consider This Job To Be A Massive Privilege”


Daniel Craig on playing ‘Queer’, killing Bond and being nominated for a Golden Globe: “I consider this job to be a massive privilege”

This being a career interview, Kermode segued into one of Craig’s earlier films, Love Is the Devil, in which he played artist Francis Bacon’s working-class gay lover, his first attempt “to corner the market as a bit of rough”. Naturally, most people in the room — which sold out to members only before going on sale to the public — were there to hear war stories from Bond, and Craig did not disappoint, even explaining the elaborate secrets of Casino Royale ’s torture scene. Rock but teased a possible fourth Knives Out collaboration with Rian Johnson “if he keeps writing them like that.” Amazingly, it was the first two Benoit Blanc movies that brought Craig his first two Golden Globes nominations before yesterday’s nod for Queer.

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