Solène Delinger 6:17 p.m., October 09, 2021
In "Die can wait", in theaters since Wednesday, October 6, Daniel Craig takes on for the last time the costume of the most famous of his Majesty's spies.
How did the British actor establish himself in this role?
How did he give flesh to the character of James Bond, threatened with outdatedness?
Answer to the microphone of Laurie Cholewa with Guillaume Evin and Laurent Perriot, experts of the franchise and authors of the book "The cult replicas of the Bond saga".
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Daniel Craig bows out.
After fifteen years and five films in a tuxedo, the 53-year-old star puts on the James Bond costume for the last time in "Die Can Wait", in theaters since Wednesday, October 6.
What will we remember from the James Bond of the Craig era?
How did the British actor manage to modernize the franchise?
Guests at the microphone of Laurie Cholewa in the show "Clap!", Guillaume Evin and Laurent Pierrot, experts in the saga, take stock of the Craig years.
Already with a little hint of nostalgia ...
Daniel Craig, the unloved of the saga
"Die can wait" marks the end of a cycle, that of Daniel Craig in the skin of the famous spy. If the fans of the saga today mourn the mythical interpreter of 007, the British actor was far from unanimous in 2005, when he was chosen to be the new James Bond. Guillaume Evin was also very skeptical. "I didn't want to stone him like other people had done," he says. "But it is true that he did not correspond to the morphotype. We were all used to a tall dark-haired man. And then there, we discovered a man of average height, muscular, blond. He had a head of Soviet nervousness to be done. kick off from the credits ". A feeling shared by Laurent Pierrot: "I found that this guy absolutely did not look like the character.He looked more like a Russian killer than James Bond. "A hypothetical young Vladimir Putin who catalyzed a flood of insults." James Blond "had even become his nickname.
From disenchantment to success with "Casino Royale"
The release of "Casino Royale" in 2006 will suffice to silence all the skeptics.
Masterful in the skin of James Bond, Daniel Craig shows the whole world that he is in his place.
"He will take everything away, I was amazed," says Guillaume Evin.
"We judged him before seeing anything. And he was a very good James Bond", underlines Laurent Pierrot.
But how did the British actor manage to win?
What made the difference?
According to Guillaume Evin, Daniel Craig brought a lot to the role, "like all his predecessors". But it was able to stand out thanks to its "magnetism" and its "density". "It corresponds perfectly to its time, dark and serious", underlines the expert of the saga. For his sidekick Laurent Perriot, Daniel Craig was used to renew the franchise, which was becoming outdated. Even Roger Moore, the predecessor of Daniel Craig, had at the time estimated that the worldwide box of "Casino Royale" would "revive the franchise for fifty years". And he was not wrong: "Skyfall", in 2012, became the biggest blockbuster of the saga with more than 1.1 billion in revenue. It remains to be seen whether "Dying Can Wait" will achieve the same success.
Craig gave Bond a human face
"Craig retires at the right time," said Laurent Pierrot in the columns of "Figaro".
"The results are generally positive. With this fifth film, Eon productions closes a cycle. They close the book of the Craig era. In the future, we imagine that they will be able to return to the initial formula, a film, an adventure , which would correspond to the novels of Ian Fleming. "
Daniel Craig finally gave a human face to James Bond, his cinematic alter ego.
Finding a successor who will come close to his ankle will undoubtedly be difficult.
James Norton, Tom Hardy, Regé-Jean Page, Idris Elba and Luke Evans are already among the contenders for the tuxedo.
And you, who would you see in 007?