Former James Bond star Dame Judi Dench has branded Daniel Craig’s 007 gloomy and lacking the jokes of previous incarnations.
The 86-year-old screen icon became the first woman to play Bond’s boss M, beginning in 1995’s Goldeneye, which starred Pierce Brosnan as the suave spy.
Dench went on to play the role a total of seven times but she admits that the scripts were more fun when Pierce was sipping the Vodka Martinis as the stories were more like the Roger Moore and Sean Connery movies that came before.
Whereas the three times she shared the screen with Craig everything was very serious and the movies had very few tongue-in-cheek laughs that the fans love so much.
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During an interview on Esther Rantzen’s That’s After Life podcast it was suggested to her that Craig’s films are gloomy, to which Dench replied: “The script isn’t so funny, I know, I agree.”
Dench bowed out as M when her character was killed off in 2012 blockbuster Skyfall.
The actress admitted she cried when filming her final scenes, not because she was sad to leave the role but because she was promised a three-week shoot in Scotland and they only spent one night north of the border.
She recalled: “I cried because we were told we were going to Scotland for three weeks, and we went one morning, we filmed, and we were back on the 7:30 plane that night.”
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the new James Bond film has been delayed again for the third time and will hopefully be released in October 2021.
British actor Daniel Craig who played the iconic character since 2006, will be playing James for the last time too.
Talking about the role to Empire magazine in 2019, the actor explained why he felt the need to just do one more instalment of James Bond.
Daniel said: “It felt like we needed to finish something off. If I’d left it at Spectre, something at the back of my head would have been going, ‘I wish I’d done one more’.”
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