Daniel Craig had four-word response when asked about ‘regrets’ over leaving James Bond role (Image: Getty )
has revealed that he does not look back with regret after calling time on his role as . The 56-year-old actor played .
He was the : Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021). However his luck of dodging bullets ran out and the final movie ended with a noble sacrifice, which resulted in him being killed off.
In a chat with Martha Kearney on Best of Today podcast she quizzed him about the decision he made to finally call it quits. Asked if he had any regrets, he simply said: “No, none at all.”
Craig met the answer with deep reflection and shared that he looked back with fond memories. After playing Bond for over a decade he expressed that it was an “incredible” part of his life.
“I had an incredibly fortunate 17 years of my life making this. I literally want to spend the next 20 years of my life trying to unhook it all and try and put it into place because it was incredible,” he said.
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Daniel Craig stepped down from James Bond in 2021 (Image: Getty)
He explained he sat down and worked with the franchise producer Barbara Broccoli to work out the best way to hang up his suit forever.
He shared that he had full control: “I left it where I wanted it to be. And that I was given the chance to do that with the last movie.”
However, he left fans on the edge of their seat when he teased a possible return to the big screen and shared that his character was not actually dead, but instead “gone”.
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Daniel Craig has said that he wants to focus on the next “20 years” of his life (Image: Getty)
Kearney, 66, further asked if Bond had been definitely killed off and it was the end. To which he replied: “He’s not really dead.”
He further explained: “I’m gone, but it says right at the end [of No Time To Die] that Bond will return, so he must return at some point.”
Craig brought a darker and sinister tone to the character after exploring Bond’s deeper psychology.
Meanwhile, Kearney touched upon his reinvention to which Craig said: “I don’t know if it sounds disingenuous, I said to Barbara a long time ago, back in 2006, ‘If I do all of these movies, and we get it right, can we kill him off.
“She said, ‘Yes, you can.’ And I was thinking about myself, about my postponed career and I was trying to think of how that would work and but I was also thinking what they did with Casino Royale – they had the chance to reset with that because they went back to the beginning,” he continued.
He added that it “seemed like a good move”.