Sam Mendes has revealed that he thought casting Daniel Craig as James Bond was a ‘terrible idea’.
The Spectre director admitted that he wasn’t initially sold when he heard Craig had been chosen to take over from Pierce Brosnan.
Sam told BBC’s TMS podcast: ‘I had cast Daniel Craig in this film I made in Chicago called Road To Perdition about 15 years ago and it was his first big American film.
‘The the role of Bond came up years later and I was called by Entertainment Weekly, a showbiz publication, and they said your old friend and collaborator has been suggested as Bond, what do you think? I said “terrible idea – he shouldn’t do it”.