Daniel Craig
Appearances
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Listen, you know, it would be like I had a plan. Right. I mean, I'm making this up as I go along. I don't know about that. I mean, seriously, if they come along, sure. But I'm kind of going out and looking for something funny. It's also, you know, I know how kind of that's a dangerous thing to do. Right. It's like... The first night out, I read the script and I laughed out loud and I went, fuck.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
So that was like an easy pick. And then, you know, Ryan's one of the most talented writers there are. He just kind of keeps going and keeps getting at it and keeps getting into it. And this next one is going to be different. And, you know, we've kind of gone, I mean, it's not wildly different, but it's going to be definitely kind of got a different tone to it.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Oh, wait, there's a third one you're doing now? There's a third one we shot in the summer. It's called Wake Up Deadman. Oh, wow. It's like plugging the movie. Yeah, no, no, please.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I think there was a feeling when I first started that because I'd had exactly what you said, those conversations, and I talked about it to everybody I knew and all my family and all of those things about what does it mean? Of course I've got to do it. I've got to do this, but what does it mean? You know, how it's going to affect my life and all those things. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And there was a sort of, I suppose, an instinct in me to sort of want to go, okay, I'm doing Bond now. I've got to do other stuff as well to kind of counterbalance this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like fucking ridiculous.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I need to take a nap. I was fucking exhausted. I was like, so as much as the moves I did in between, I'm kind of like proud of and all of those things. I stopped. I just went, let's do this. If I'm doing this, just do this. And I don't have the headspace.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean, I was sort of younger and I'm way too gung-ho. I was just, you know, I mean, I kind of threw myself, there was like, you know, the stuff guys were kind of saying, you know, do you want to do, yeah, I'll do, yeah. I was like, yeah, I know. And, but I had all this stuff going on. I mean, we were, we started shooting in Prague, in studios there, and then we moved to the Bahamas.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And then my agent, which is, you know, it was very nice, but then my agent sort of phoned me up and said, you might want to look at the internet. And the internet had just sort of blown up and done this like, fuck him kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, I remember that. Which was kind of like, and I kind of looked at it all as like, you know, the naive days when I used to do stuff like that.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Like, oh, no, I'm going to look at it all and go down that rabbit hole and just chased it all night long and was like, oh, my God, that's really intense. And I kind of, I then sort of just had this sort of like weird, sort of, I don't know, I just sort of went... well, there's fuck all I can do about that.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
There's nothing I can do, and we're here, and I know the script's good, and let's have a good time. And if it's a swing and a miss, great. If it's my last one, I'll walk away knowing that I did the best I could. I mean, it sounds easy to say now. No, but it just, it was like, it just, I was like, let's get on with this. Let's do it. I just, you know.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean, I think the fame thing, I mean, I just had a complete nervous breakdown after it came out and sort of didn't leave the house for six months. But it was that. Really? Really? I mean, I exaggerate, but it was a bit like that.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Well, and who do you talk to about it? I mean, I suppose you go, I'm going to phone up someone really, really famous. I mean, it's like, I mean, I don't know what you say.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I think there's a, I've just got a very, you know, down-to-earth family who do not shy away from telling me what, you know, a low life I am. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's like, and that really helps. And just, yeah, coming, I don't know, I'm from the north of England, so a more kind of like sort of practical sort of like pragmatic way of looking at life maybe.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I also got into that thing of, you know, very early on, I mean, there's so much. I went to drama school and there's that terrible thing of drama school is that like 90% of the year don't get to work. It's like, that's the attrition rate. And you go into the business, there wasn't social media, so there wasn't another outlet to try and become famous.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
It was just like, you know, you got a job or you didn't get a job. And mostly people didn't get a job. Um, I know that somebody gave me a great bit of advice very early on, a while at drama school, a great director who just said, don't ever, ever, ever get bitter. Don't get, you know, because bitterness is just the thing that it'll just,
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
the job right over you there's always somebody gonna you know and if you kind of look at look only look at like you know other people in the business with jealousy then then you'll kind of that that's that'll define you and it doesn't matter if you then get success you're still kind of i get jealous all the time jealous of every fucking actor out there who gets a job that i'd like but i kind of i'm i admit to it
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
The people who were working? That's a good point. They'll always get dinner. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
It's somebody else's fucking problem. Oh, that's so great. It made me laugh out loud.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean, I left home at 16. I went and joined a thing called the National Youth Theatre in London. So I left Liverpool. Liverpool was like early 80s.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
come up now and it's doing the city's doing great which is just wonderful but at the time it was seriously depressed we had a sort of Trotskyite local council that was hated by Thatcher who she starved I mean it was like the whole thing was just like employment was like I can't even like 35% or 36% it was through the roof whatever it was And there was not a lot of job prospects.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And I was playing with the idea of joining the Navy. I was playing with the idea. You know, I was doing all those things, going, well, what do I do? What the fuck am I going to do? And there was a thing called the National Youth Theatre, and it did a summer course, and my mother was a teacher, and it was on the board at her school, and she went this. And I went and auditioned for it in Manchester.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I got in and she sort of kicked me out the door. She went, you've got to go, you've got to go, go, go, go. And it was partly her ambition because actually she'd got into RADA, which is, you know, the kind of top, the top sort of drama school, certainly of those years, when she was 17, 18. And there was no money.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
you know she didn't the family just didn't have the money so she didn't tell me that until about 10 years ago actually oh wow so she but that her ambition for me was just to get going wow she must have been absolutely thrilled with your your success and yeah the arc of your success too yeah
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
The theater thing was the kicker. That was definitely the kind of thing that got me just, that's what I want to do. And I had some weird thing that I can do that, which is right. But, you know, it's just because I was a show-off. Right, right. And I still do. You know, I mean, so. John Gielgud. Something like that. No? Yes. Albert Finney.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean, definitely that generation, Albert Finney's generation and those guys. I mean, it's just that whole, you know, I suppose they're called the angry young men, didn't they? Then you worked with Gambon. of a human being and one of the greatest actors ever. It was film, really.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And that was... We had a little cinema in the town I grew up in, which was, you know, a flea pit, proper kind of just like a one-screen... And all the movies at the time would do the kind of rounds of the country where they'd go to the big screens and things like that. And then by the time we got them, the movie had been out for like a month and a half.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And the prints would... I remember the prints were just terrible. But... They just, they put films on in rotation. I mean, from Stripes to Quest for Fire to, you know, I mean, Blade Runner I remember seeing in the cinema on my own with kind of an orange juice. And this film came out, I had no idea. It was like blind. I was in there seeing a double bill. It was a Sean Connery.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
a space movie called outland or something oh yeah yeah yeah does that make sense yeah that was on which was pretty great because it's a cowboy movie in space yeah and then i kind of went and got a you know a drink and came back and sat down on my own and blade runner started and it was just like i was like and that was harrison ford a bit of a north star for you Well, it was the movie itself.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
It was the whole thing. I mean, sure, he is, of course. But the movie itself and the kind of, the fact that movies could look like that, feel like that, and do that to you was just like the thing. I'd never kind of experienced it.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And it felt like a movie that I discovered, that I was, and it was nothing to do with Gone with the Wind or the kind of, it's a wonderful life stuff, or the Bond movies even. It was fantasy, yeah.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean, it's hindsight, isn't it, that sort of says it. But there was something about... You thought it was possible.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
It was a thing that happened. I kind of left drama school and went and did a John G. Avelstone movie called The Power of One with Stephen Dorff. I love Stephen. Scored by Hans Zimmer. Wow. He's amazing. Really kind of weird. I mean, not a weird movie, just a kind of movie of its era. Yeah. playing the bad guy, and kind of... It was just this sort of event that happened, but it was a movie.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And I then came out and didn't work for a lot, did some theatre, and then started getting TV roles.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Little guest roles and things like that. And... Suddenly then I got kind of a lead in a TV role, and suddenly the money started. It wasn't great, but it was like, whoa, this is like kind of life-changing money in the sense I might be able to afford a house soon.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Still living in England. I'd gone to LA after The Power of One, and it was like 1991 and arriving here. Wow. It was like a... I mean, well, a kind of and kind of not, because I was so like... green and naive, I landed in this town, I didn't have a driver's license, and I didn't have a credit card.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
They checked me into the Universal Sheraton, which I realize now is an island, where you need a car to get off it. And I kind of went to the front desk and they said, credit card, and they went... So I had to embarrassingly call up Warner Brothers and get them to put some money down on the desk and do all these things. And Wow.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And then John D. Abelson very nicely was sort of pushing me slightly because he's like, this kid's got it, this kid's got it. He was pushing me slightly. So I went up for auditions. And in the movie, I was playing, you know, a Nazi kind of South African... you know, bad guy. And I was going up for Nazi South African bad guys. I mean, that was it.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I went up for like five auditions and it was all for, you know, it was just all for Nazis. And I just was like, I was just like, yeah, I mean, I've got a bit more range than this, I think. And there was a kind of, suddenly there was an offer on the table from a manager and why don't you stay and we get you accommodation, blah, blah, blah, blah.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And I kind of went on and I did these five auditions and I went, whoa, no, this is going to go really wrong. And I don't know what it was. It was just like, Where these thoughts came from, I have no idea. But they were just like, this is not the career I want. So I went home.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Back to England. Well, sort of back to thinking, well, I've got a bit of money in my pocket. I've got a bit of money now, so it's okay. But then suddenly I started getting bigger roles in television, and I realized that was a mistake. Because I looked at these television stars at home, and God bless them. They're earning money, and they've got the house in Portugal, and they're thinking...
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Yeah, they're set. Set. It's great. I want to make movies. I want to make movies. Good for you. And the British movie industry didn't exist. It just didn't. I mean, there were amazing movies coming out. You think about, you know, like... Room with a View.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean, Room with a View, but I'm talking kind of like... No one was ever going to cast me in because I wasn't a floppy-fringed kind of posh boy. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Well, that's what I mean. So there was lots of brilliant directors, like, you know, My Beautiful Laundrette and things like that were going on. But that was a kind of, you know, you had to know the director and things. And I sort of plugged away at it until someone gave me a break.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
It's as these things do. Like I say this to kind of young actors who talk about kind of, you know, when the break comes and, you know, I'm going to do this thing. It's like believing producers say, this is going to be good for you, this is going to be good for you, this. It doesn't happen like that in the industry. It's tectonic. It rolls around.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
You get the break, like someone comes and sees you in something or sees you in something, a year later they might go, let's get that guy.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And you can't rush these things. So I did things and I just kept on going. And eventually sort of something, momentum started happening. And then I don't know what kind of went down. I did a TV series and then wrote a petition. Sam cast me and wrote a petition and then Munich.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
But it works. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it works, yeah. Uh-huh, yeah. No, I just, I was, I was supposed to have sort of learned this Chicago accent, and for some reason, I didn't. And for the audition, I kind of, I really, because he'd sort of kind of, he'd, He hadn't offered it to me, but he'd sort of said to me, we really want you to play the part. And I thought, well, that's an offer.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And he said, now you've got to fly out to Chicago and audition. I was like, really? So I didn't really do enough work on the part. And I kind of went, did this terrible reading. And he sort of went, stop, stop, you've got the job. Oh, no way, Eddie Boyd. I sort of, I kind of, you know, battered him down with terrible acting. It's a ploy.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean... Combo? I mean, I would... Kind of, yeah. I mean, I just felt terrified and all of those things, but you're here now. Right. You better fucking... You better deliver. You better deliver.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean, I suppose what it was, what really calmed me... When it boils down to it, you're on set with one of the greatest living actors of all time.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And Paul Newman. Both of them, but very, very, very different actors. But Paul Newman, who I've idolized. And watching him work, you realize, oh God, he's an actor. And it's just that sort of like, that in itself was like, he's, I can't talk to him about, he wanted to talk to me about racing cars. I was like going, four wheels? I mean, yeah.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
You know, because like, he's like talking about like, I mean, why the Indy series was so much better than Grand Prix series. I was like, yeah. I mean, it was like, I couldn't, but when it came down to it and watching and working with him, I had a language that I could speak to him in because I'm an actor, he's an actor, and he really is, you know. And he'd struggle and he'd,
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
and really be kind of trying to find it and things that I'd just be like, oh, wow, great, that's what I do. Oh, good. And that kind of just, so I can get, you know, I mean.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I was like, we can do this. We can make this happen. We're playing. Suddenly we're like, we're here to play. Great. I know how to play.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
It really just settles everybody's nerves. Oh, my God. That's how he's going to do it. I don't know. I feel like part of my job is to... You're on set. I love being around actors. I love being... It's fun. It's a lot of fun. And if you have somebody who is there for a bit, a short day... I have a thing. It's like my favorite movies.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
It's those small parts that zip out, that make the movie sometimes. It's like you encourage them to be the best they can because it's like... It's like smallest cogs, all of that shit. Sure. No small parts, just small actors. Exactly.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
um no do you are you always like that or do you go off the rails sometimes and and just i mean i do i mean i don't i mean i i don't i used to have a i used to swing okay on bond yeah right here we go um that's that that's not a good a good word um on bond i would you know because of the intensity i would sort of then spend the next sort of three four months sort of being
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
drunk and eating yeah yeah and and that that that's not good for you so yeah you know so i don't i i stopped doing that and sort of like said okay let's maintain my fitness how about that yeah yeah yeah thank you well it does it gets it gets so hard after 50 yeah i mean we're all it's just it's just so depressing It's so depressing.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I remember finding my mom up a few years ago and going, oh, my fingers are aching. Welcome to my world. It's just that's what it is.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I had this treatment the other day where they gave me this infrared thing where they kind of map your body infrared and my hands were on fire and they were like going, oh, what's wrong? And I'm like, I don't know what is wrong. It's like, it hurts. I'm not 20. Wait a second.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I don't know. I mean, it's just being at home. I really, really, really don't play tennis. I'm so terrible. But if I can convince a tennis pro or someone to hit a ball with me, I'll do that for two, three hours at a time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No golf for you. Yeah, what's the screen? Ruins a good walk. What are you talking about? Yeah, that's true. But it is a nice walk. It is a great, great walk.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Um, I think if I'm going to really relax, the sea is like the place I want to be because it's like... I'm with you. I just want the salt water and I want the sun and my body kind of, again, with the aches and the pains. Yeah. You're not a boat guy though, are you? Are you a guy that... Not really. No. A lot of hard work.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I do. I talk to him occasionally, and yes, I love him to death. He's just, he's just like, he's a glorious human being. So good.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I've done all that. I've done a lot. Really? Yeah, I've done a lot. You name it. The amount of theater you've done is just stunning. You name it, I've done it. It's happened on stage.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I was like, wow, it's like, and there was. The guy was fine and it was all good. It was kind of like, yeah, they stopped the show.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I think a movie takes the most out of you because I think it's a seven-day-a-week job. It's not that you can't get... There's no day off, really, because there's always something to do on whatever. Either you're doing a five-day week or you're doing a six-day week. You've got to kind of... You're either rehearsing something or you're... Studying. Studying something.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
So the intensity of that is like there's nothing. And a play, once it's up and running, gets its own kind of momentum. I mean, if it's an emotionally difficult play, then obviously it's kind of like it gets... But you sort of tend to be able to kind of like... Spend the day not thinking about it. And then go and do it.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
It's very attractive. Right. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It depends how big the bills are, isn't it, right? Yeah. Oh, that's true.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Yeah, exactly. I mean, right. So... I don't know. I did work with Gielgud. Did you? I worked with Gielgud on two jobs. He was actually in The Power of One. He played the headmaster at the school. And I did have a scene with him, but I met him. I met him around the back of the set because I'd gone around to have a cigarette back in the day when I smoked. And there he was, smoking.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And he kind of went, ooh, don't tell anybody I'm not supposed to be smoking. And I was like, we had a cigarette together and had a chat, which was like, you know. And then I did Elizabeth about 10 years later. And he must have been well into his 90s by then. Wow. And it was kind of, why is he working? Right. Because his boyfriend liked diamonds.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean, it was kind of like, that was the response, you know. And... He was wheeled in and I kind of thought I had the scene with him just to sort of like, he was playing the Pope and I was playing this Jesuit mass murderer. Easy role. And I just sort of, I kind of went to take care of him. My instinct was to sort of, hello sir, how are you?
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
You probably don't remember, we had a cigarette together, you know, of course he didn't remember. But he was like, I could see the age. It was like, oh my God, wow, he's really kind of, is he going to be able to remember his lines? The board went on, bang.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
The back went up when he was just like, and he did the scene like, it was like, oh my, blew everybody away. And then kind of went back and it was like, wow, that's, and I kind of was like, that's amazing. But I was also kind of like, I don't know if you've ever ridden a horse in a movie. They have to retire movie horses because they learn the board. You know, they learn,
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
When the slate comes in and they hit it whack, it's time to go. Yeah, so I've sat on horses that are kind of like, you know, because I don't ride very well, so I stick him on that nag. And they're kind of like there, trying to pull its head up, trying to look cool. It's just like, look, it's going to die. And they put the board on, and it's like, oh my God, this is nice!
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And they have to retire these horses. And I thought, oh, my God, you're a film horse. Do I want to turn into a film horse? Wow. When that board goes on, oh, yeah, here we are.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
No, totally, totally. I get it. I mean, going back to that hysteria in the school play, that thing, that drug, that thing that gets you. See how I brought it back? No, I like it.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Yeah, all of that. I wanted to work with Luca. I think he's just a really exciting kind of out there director who's just pushing it.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Totally, yeah. And the script, you know, was, I mean, yeah. Getting offered a really complicated, interesting, funny, sad human being to play.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
But that's my personal, I've got a problem with that. I'll take them off your head. I have to go into a dark cupboard and eat potatoes.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I do. I lived in New York for nearly 20 years. No, 15 years. And moved back to London this summer.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean, it's kind of, you know, it's love-hate. It's all that thing. It's like I really, I do love this and I love California and I love, I just, I went to the desert for a couple of days before I started this to get some kind of R&R. And, you know, it's like there's no place like this on Earth. And then I want to go, then I want to leave. really quickly. Yeah, yeah.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Yes, yeah. You do? I do, yeah, religiously, yeah. Yeah, same. I don't get to many games, sadly, but now I'm back in England, I'm hoping to get to many games.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Thank you so much. Thank you. Enjoy your day. Thank you. All right, buddy. Bye. Take care. Bye. I don't know how to stop this. There you go.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
How did you guess? Is that true? Because you're on the junket, right? Are you on the junket? Yeah. I've been coming to this hotel for like 35 years. Same room. Same room.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And then we went out. Did we then end up in the Chateau? Yes. Oh. Yeah. Was that after? I can't remember. That's two separate incidents. But there's probably the same. No, no. It was the same night. There was a lot of alcohol.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
It's true. It's true. You spoke. Well, I didn't want to, but I just said, you know, dub me. Christ's sake, I don't need. But that's a bump.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Do you think I got one? Yeah. They didn't even give me the uniform. The only thing I wanted was the uniform. I was like, give me the helmet at least.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
No, no, it wasn't. It was way before. It must have been Spectre. And we were prepping and I knew all the crew, the ADs who worked on... You drifted over to the stage? I sort of drifted over. Really? And I kind of went, oh, come on, put me in uniform. Yeah, I love that.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
It went exactly. I was half joking, thinking they were just going to tell me where to get off.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Too fucking long. Yeah. You know, that kind of regret of like, sort of think, oh, no, I'll be an extra. Oh, yeah, it's great. Oh, how many hours have we been? I'm going to sit in the back of shot four. This is like, they were very good. They were great. I do remember when, because, you know, the suits are, I mean, they're basically... hard plastic and kind of, you know, they're not comfortable.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean, God knows how they wore them out in the desert when they do those. But I remember that it sort of was a little bit big for me and it sort of rested on my thumb and my thumb was numb for three days afterwards. Because I was like, the price I pay, and I didn't get a bump.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Do you have all the questions? I've got so many. And these two just fuck with you and stop you answering the questions. That's the way it goes. That's the way it goes. You'll be lucky to speak. What happens when the reveal and the other two go, oh, fuck.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Plays were the thing. There was a theatre in Liverpool at the time, it still is, called the Everyman Theatre, which was kind of a hotbed of... of talent, as they say, and at the time in the 70s. But her friends had been at Liverpool Art College and a lot of them had gone into the theatre, stage design and those things. And those were her kind of friends. She was a single mum.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
And we used to kind of end up going there most nights to the theatre just to sort of hang out. There was a kind of, you know, they had a bistro there. That's so cool. And it was a subsidised theatre and they did this thing Where it's like, you know, there's a pound, a ticket. It's like the whole thing was supposed to be so everybody could afford to go. And they did some off-the-charts plays.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
But it meant that I spent sort of, you know, evenings backstage at the theater. And that'll do it to you. Right. Well, that's where all the fun happens.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Right? And, you know, actors kind of like, you know, meet actors afterwards. I'm seeing them and I thought they were... I thought they were gods, and then I just realized they were drunk.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Yeah, I mean, definitely. And it really did, it went in. That's what I wanted to do. I mean, that's all I wanted to do. But it also gave me this, watching the way a theatre works, the way that professionals work and all that, it also kind of went, oh, this is a job as well. You could see that. It's kind of a couple of things. Lots of things happened.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I got roped into a school play. I mean, I kind of did one of those things where I think I kind of had a couple of days off or whatever. I got the mumps or something. I don't know. And I came back and I'd been cast in the school play. What was it? Do you remember what it was? It was Oliver. Yeah. Oh, wow. I wasn't Oliver. Sadly.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I was Mr. Sowersbury, which is the part that's not in the movie that kind of was in the musical and got, for good reason, got written out of the movie.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I didn't get to do that, no, sadly, yeah. I know you got to pick a pocket or two, that's right. I mean, it's a credo you live by.
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
I mean, you must have all done a school play at some point. It's just that kind of mass hysteria thing that kind of happens, which is... I mean, you know, my kids do school plays. I love that kind of just like the level of like...
SmartLess
"Daniel Craig"
Please say yes. I never. Yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. Why don't you give me the questions and I'll just. I do build the answer. The answer is always built in. And so then he likes to bring the guest into the inevitable really interesting yes or no. Is that how we go out on this? I can't wait. 50 questions, yes or no. It's easy. Do you want to do more comedy? Yes.