Daniel Craig is `raring to go` on Bond 22

Daniel Craig told ShowbizAndStyle that he is "raring to go" on this second adventure as James Bond.

Are you glad to be a rougher kind of Bond?
I think he’s quite sophisticated in my mind (laughter).

Are you worried that you will be typecast as James Bond?
I don’t find it a particular problem. If it is, it’s a very high class problem to have. I’ve been continuing. “The Golden Compass” is the third movie I’ve done this year which has nothing to do with James Bond.

Marc Forster told us in an interview that one of the reasons he is directing the next Bond movie is that because he respects you so much as an actor.
I will throw the compliment right back at him. If you look at Marc’s body of work, from “Monster’s Ball” and “Finding Neverland” to “The Kite Runner,” he’s incredibly versatile.

So how do you feel about this next Bond film?
I’m over the moon. Aside from Marc, we’ve got Dennis Gassner, who’s also the production designer of “The Golden Compass.” I’ve worked with him in “Road to Perdition.” We’ve got the same stunt team we had before. The sets are being built at Pinewood as we speak. The locations have been set. We’re getting the cast together. I am raring to go.

What are your expectations?
We made a good movie last time. It was very successful, which was obviously a huge bonus. The problem is, we have to make a better one this time.

What lessons did you learn from being in a Bond movie?
I suppose what I got out of doing Bond was that the same problems arise. If a movie costs $10 million, it has its own problems, usually lack of money but if a movie has $250 million, it has problems as well. So you try and keep those problems to a minimum. The same rules apply. You have to commit. I’ll tell you how tired I was after I finished the movie, but it was great to get to the end. I saw that the work I put in seems to have paid off. The day that it stops (paying off), then I’ll have to re-think.

Thanks to `Jack Wade` for the alert.

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