Daniel Craig said it was a challenge to keep traces of President Donald Trump out of the latest James Bond film.
In an interview with GQ, the English actor, 52, said he didn’t want to talk much about real-world affairs but couldn’t help but mention how elements of the president may be seen in the film.
“We struggled to keep Trump out of this film,” Craig told the magazine of “No Time To Die.” “But of course, it is there. It’s always there, whether it’s Trump, or whether it’s Brexit, or whether it’s Russian influence on elections or whatever.”
He continued, “There are British people working in the top industries in the world and at the top of those industries. We do that, and we are good at that. And somehow we’re kind of breaking all that apart. Whether that’s breaking from Europe. … There is a sort of nihilism, isn’t there?”
He said he sometimes sees Bond as an example of a selfless public servant.
“There’s something I feel that Bond represents, someone who’s there, trying to do the job and doesn’t want any (expletive) publicity,” he said. “And this is a joke, because he drives a (expletive) Aston Martin and does all these ridiculous things. But these people exist. … It’s the ambulance service. I know it’s terribly kind of romantic. But they are people who are just getting on with it and saving people’s lives.”
He said this contrasts with the grandstanding of Trump, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and general social media-driven hysteria.
“But that’s not the way the world works now,” he said. “It’s about humiliating others to save one’s own skin. And it’s cowardly, it’s just (expletive) cowardly.”
This weekend, Craig returned to host “Saturday Night Live” for the first time in eight years.
During his opening monologue, he introduced a parody sneak peek clip of “No Time to Die.”
The film release date was postponed until November amid the global coronavirus outbreak, the film’s producer’s announced last week.
“After careful consideration and thorough evaluation of the global theatrical marketplace,” the producers said, the release will be postponed from its original date in April to Nov. 12 in the U.K. and Nov. 25 in the USA.
Contributing: Hannah Yasharoff and Bryan Alexander
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