British actor Daniel Craig revealed why he returned to play the role of James Bond for one last time in the upcoming film No Time To Die.
In an interview with Empire magazine, the 51 year old actor said that the last film in the series did not give a well deserved closer to the beloved James Bond character.
“If that had been it, the world would have carried on as normal, and I would have been absolutely fine. But somehow 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’,” he said.
He further added, “I always had a kind of secret idea about the whole lot in my head, and where I wanted to take it. And Spectre wasn’t that. But this feels like it is.”
Craig has played the spy in four films previously, which include Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015).
No Time To Die is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and also stars Lea Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch and Ralph Fiennes. It is scheduled to be theatrically released on 2 April, 2020 in the United Kingdom and on 8 April in the United States.