Daniel Craig's still defiant over film roles
Jan 2 2009 by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post
Jamie Bell and Daniel Craig in the film Defiance _320
“The First World War was the ‘war to end all wars’, and, with the Second World War, everyone said ‘that’ll never happen again’.
“And we’re doing a really bad job, because it keeps on happening again and again.”
Although it seems a world away from Bond, Craig still performs his “fair share of killing” in Defiance, and says he appreciates the chance to perform both sorts of role.
He had been keen to work with the film’s director, Ed Zwick, and says the cast gelled immediately.
“That was a great thing about this film,” he says.
“Me, Liev and Jamie are all really individual people, and yet we got on so well. We just messed with each other, in the nicest possible way. We energised each other and tried to put each other off.”
Craig says that, apart from resting his shoulder, he will be taking a break and has no immediate filming commitments.
Two things not on the Craig radar include a rumoured sequel to The Golden Compass and the anticipated I, Lucifer in which Craig was to play a washed-up writer through which Satan lived out his last chance of redemption.
Of the former, the Philip Pullman series in which he played Lord Asriel, he says: “I can’t see there being one at the moment. Warner Bros have the rights to it. It’s a shame, I’d have liked to do another – it’s quite sad really.
“It just didn’t work out the way it was supposed to. But I’m not the one who gets to make those kind of decisions.”
There are “only a finite number of good scripts out there”, he muses, despite the leap to A-list status that came with Bond.
“I wish there was suddenly a pile of brilliant, brilliant scripts being put in front of me, but that’s not the case.
“I do get to look at things perhaps a little earlier than before, but then it just comes down to a choice, is it good enough and do I want to do it? Nothing’s changed there.”
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