I’m swooning over Daniel Craig’s GQ pics!

The release date of the new James Bond flick has been pushed back at the last minute so all the publicity its hunky star Daniel Craig has done is still rolling out.

I don’t mind one damned bit!

He hosted SNL last weekend and now he’s on the cover of GQ and the photos accompanying his story are quite yummy.

Craig has been Bond for the longest of all—14 years—and No Time To Die is his fifth and final film in the role.

Here is an excerpt from the article which is a very deep dive:

After Craig agreed to play Bond, the studio insisted on a screen test. A ritual of the franchise is that all potential Bonds are asked to play the same scene, a moment in From Russia With Love, in which the spy returns to his hotel room to find Tatiana, a Russian agent, waiting for him naked in bed. Craig hated the rigmarole, the sense of following tradition. “I can’t believe my own arrogance, really,” he said. But he studied for the part. He went back to Fleming’s novels and found a character quite distinct from the unruffled screen persona of the previous 30 years. The Bond of the books was someone Craig could relate to: cold, messed up, human. “He is really fucking dark,” he said. In the novel Moonraker (1955), Bond tips a load of speed into his Champagne. “I think it’s more interesting,” Craig told me. “I know we can’t have him having amphetamine and speed and doing all these things. But inside, I know I’m doing that. And I wanted to inform the part and say that’s what he is. He’s kind of a fuckup. Because this job would fuck you up.”

The screen test was a whole deal. A stage at Pinewood. Lights, crew, makeup. A half-day shoot. The director, Martin Campbell—who shot GoldenEye in 1995 and went on to make Casino Royale—asked Craig to walk over to a fruit bowl and toss a grape into his mouth. Craig refused. “I just went, ‘No.’ I said, ‘No, I can’t.’ ” The two men argued. “I’m not going to do it. You do that,” Craig said. “It was about ‘How am I going to be James Bond?’ ”