Posted on 10/25/2005 1:34:55 PM PDT by kerryusama04
Daniel Craig will have a problem playing the new James Bond - because he hates guns.
The actor will wield 007's famous Walther PPK in the movie Casino Royale.
But he revealed in OK! magazine: "I hate handguns. Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other.
"That's a simple fact. I've seen a bullet wound and it was a mess. It was on a shoot and it scared me. Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that's what's scary about them."
Nor does the 37-year-old share Bond's love of Martinis shaken and stirred.
"I love a Martini straight up. I don't think anybody makes a Martini stirred any more," he said.
Craig was unveiled earlier this month as the successor to Pierce Brosnan. He will play a tougher, grittier 007 in Casino Royale, which is based on Ian Fleming's first Bond book.
The movie is due for release in November next year.
Craig is not the first Bond to reveal a hatred of guns.
Roger Moore, who played the superspy from 1973 to 1985, said after quitting the role that he hated "that awful pose" of Bond with his gun which has become an iconic movie image.
The actor later became an ambassador for children's charity Unicef and declared: "Today I am completely opposed to small arms and what they can do to children. I played every role tongue-in-cheek because I don't really believe in that sort of hero. I don't like guns."
At least Roger Moore had the good sense to keep his trap shut until he was done making his fortune.
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T. Smith: I hate Bond
He's in dire need of a dumb ass vaccine for making this public.
Guess I'll wait for him to make it to late nite tv......
James Bond without a gun and martini..kinda like Governor Blanco without an excuse..
No Guns.
No Martini.
I'm wondering if he forget to mention the other staple of Bond films that he doesn't like.
A sissy James Bond, go figure.
New Bond: I hate the guns, I hate the womanizing... but the clothes are FAAAABULUOS!
Roger Moore was pretty limp wristed as Bond, but at least he didn't bash the role while he had it. This idiot is poisoning the well before they even shoot one frame of film. Oh well, it doesn't matter. The Bond franchise is as dead as Star Trek. How many more times can they beat the same dead horse?
He was on a shoot and saw a bullet wound and it was a mess. What a gay statement. Can tell he was never in the military.
This guy is a wimp. If he had his way, then people like me would no longer need to fear smaller people having an "equalizer" like a firearm. A simple cudgel or broadsword would be all I would need to beat most of others smaller than me into submission. The Rule of the Brute would be returned to society.
That is not the kind of place I want to live. This idiot is far too effeminate to be a Bond. What will he want banned next? Piinty sticks?
What next? Will the new Bond carry a dolly and prance?
Sean Connery is the archetype for Bond. This wee girl doesn't come close.
so much for seeing his Bond movies - a wussie bond, what's next, a faggot superman....?????
Just give him pink ribbons to deal with the bad guys. The original 007 will never be replaced except for possibly Roger Moore.
"I love a Martini straight up. I don't think anybody makes a Martini stirred any more," he said.
A Martini that isn't stirred IS shaken and then poured into the glass straight up.
I've made a point to see every Bond flick since Goldfinger but I'll be giving this one a pass. The last few have pretty much sucked anyway.
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