Wirral's Daniel Craig reveals new Bond film secrets

Oct 15 2008 By Lorna Hughes

daniel craig

WIRRAL-born James Bond actor Daniel Craig joined the producers and stars of the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace, for the start of the film’s worldwide promotional tour in Moscow.

Craig was joined at a press conference on Tuesday (October 14) by producer Barbara Broccoli, director Marc Forster and co-stars Olga Kurylenko and Anatole Taubman.

Asked what the most challenging scenes in the film were, the former Hilbre High pupil – who does many of the stunts himself – said that a freefall sequence where he and Kurylenko leap out of a plane was among the most difficult.

“We did this in a wind tunnel with winds of 200 mph ripping around us and 20 cameras shooting from all around,” said Craig, adding that a stuntman badly injured during filming in Italy had now made an “almost full recovery.” He needed plastic surgery after an accident on set, in which he severed his fingertip and had eight stitches on his face after being accidentally kicked by one of his co-stars.

The film is released in the UK on October 31.