Being James Bond

A lot of the kind of, the cliches, as it were, 257 00:14:55,621 --> 00:14:59,646 that have become cliches over the years 'cause they've become Bond tropes, 258 00:14:59,671 --> 00:15:03,849 I was like, "We can't really do that. We have to try and reinvent it." 259 00:15:04,197 --> 00:15:07,456 But saying that, these were really, really difficult to write for. 260 00:15:07,481 --> 00:15:09,617 Putting words in James Bond's mouth... 261 00:15:09,660 --> 00:15:12,607 Because all that anybody remembers are the one-liners. 262 00:15:14,297 --> 00:15:17,849 You know, for me, the funniest lines are out of reality. 263 00:15:17,874 --> 00:15:20,502 The greatest Bond lines are stress release. 264 00:15:20,527 --> 00:15:25,256 They're like a release of, you know, of tension, so that you don't... "Oh, God!" 265 00:15:25,281 --> 00:15:28,396 You know, 'cause he's in a terrible situation. 266 00:15:28,476 --> 00:15:31,264 You have to create that. You have to create the tension 267 00:15:31,289 --> 00:15:32,589 and then have the one-liner. 268 00:15:32,625 --> 00:15:35,170 You can't just... The one-liner's not the scene. 269 00:15:35,841 --> 00:15:37,732 I've got a little itch... 270 00:15:38,522 --> 00:15:39,795 ...down there. 271 00:15:41,059 --> 00:15:42,466 Would you mind? 272 00:15:50,216 --> 00:15:51,427 No! 273 00:15:51,745 --> 00:15:53,724 No! No. 274 00:15:53,749 --> 00:15:55,423 No, no. 275 00:15:55,448 --> 00:15:57,445 To the right. To the right! 276 00:15:57,470 --> 00:15:58,584 To the right! 277 00:15:58,609 --> 00:16:00,638 You are a funny, man. Mr. Bond. 278 00:16:05,257 --> 00:16:07,209 Well, it was the same with "Bond, James Bond." 279 00:16:07,234 --> 00:16:10,084 Exactly. I mean, I know. I mean, Pierce talks about it. 280 00:16:10,109 --> 00:16:13,077 But it's like, you know, saying that fucking line... 281 00:16:13,102 --> 00:16:15,927 I mean, if I have to say it, I'll say it once to myself. 282 00:16:15,952 --> 00:16:18,155 And then you're on set and you think, "Oh, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine." 283 00:16:18,180 --> 00:16:22,089 And then you say it, and it's like this... The weight of it is just- 284 00:16:22,114 --> 00:16:26,359 And I think I try to be quite cool about these things, but it's impossible. 285 00:16:26,384 --> 00:16:29,116 I mean, I don't know how many takes we did at the end of Casino Royale. 286 00:16:29,151 --> 00:16:32,548 Literally, there are takes with, "The name's Bond, James Bond." 287 00:16:32,583 --> 00:16:33,844 It's like... 288 00:16:34,043 --> 00:16:37,398 It's like I'm a 13-year-old whose voice is breaking. 289 00:16:43,197 --> 00:16:44,656 The name's Bond. 290 00:16:45,226 --> 00:16:46,855 James Bond. 291 00:16:51,945 --> 00:16:53,438 The film was good, 292 00:16:53,463 --> 00:16:59,008 but because people's expectations were, "Let's go and see this train wreck." 293 00:16:59,033 --> 00:17:01,727 I mean, I think a lot of people did think, you know, 294 00:17:01,752 --> 00:17:05,384 "We're going to see it for the shits and giggles factor," 295 00:17:05,399 --> 00:17:09,446 or the fact that this... "Let's go and see this one-shot wonder." 296 00:17:09,654 --> 00:17:12,159 I mean, all of that going on. And it's like... 297 00:17:12,184 --> 00:17:13,196 The response was... 298 00:17:13,242 --> 00:17:17,644 I mean, you know, I remember being at the premiere, which was Leicester Square? 299 00:17:17,669 --> 00:17:18,836 Mm-hmm. 300 00:17:18,861 --> 00:17:20,456 That was just like... 301 00:17:20,617 --> 00:17:22,734 I mean, I was like, "What is going on?" 302 00:17:24,951 --> 00:17:29,234 And the credits came up, I mean, the pre-title sequence. 303 00:17:29,259 --> 00:17:31,155 And it's not the biggest pre-title sequence 304 00:17:31,180 --> 00:17:34,046 'cause it's just a fight in the bathroom, isn't it? That's all it is. 305 00:17:34,071 --> 00:17:36,739 It's black and white and it's not that particularly long. 306 00:17:36,764 --> 00:17:39,304 It's not particularly ambitious like that. 307 00:17:39,329 --> 00:17:41,527 And it came to the ending and the music came in, 308 00:17:41,552 --> 00:17:44,564 and everybody, I mean, everybody started cheering. 309 00:17:44,589 --> 00:17:47,937 And it was just like, you know, I'm kinda feeling up about it now. 310 00:17:55,909 --> 00:17:59,569 Yeah, I mean, it was just... It just went- Skyrocketed. 311 00:17:59,594 --> 00:18:01,685 The movie went crazy. 312 00:18:01,710 --> 00:18:03,478 And the reviews were crazy, right? 313 00:18:03,503 --> 00:18:06,511 The reviews were great. And the numbers were great. 314 00:18:06,545 --> 00:18:10,592 Although, I think all that bad publicity, we could've done better without it. 315 00:18:10,618 --> 00:18:12,890 I think we could have done a lot better. 316 00:18:12,915 --> 0