The British actor says that the break they had after he was injured allowed director Sam Mendes to take a break, look at the footage and made the story better.
- Oct 27, 2015
AceShowbiz - Actor Daniel Craig shares his experience of being injured while filming the latest Bond movie, "Spectre". While it was actually something bad, Craig says that his injury did give positive impacts on the entire team of the movie.
Craig points out that the unexpected accident actually made the movie better. "Everybody agreed it helped the movie immeasurably. Because it allowed [director Sam Mendes] to take a break, look at the footage he got and the story. I'd recommend any movie doing it. It really slowed me down, which is good. Because I tend to go at this at like 100 miles per hour," he says.
Craig injured his knee while shooting a fight scene inside a luxury train with Dave Bautista. The accident forced the movie to halt production while the British actor underwent surgery. Bautista says that things got very rough and everything just happened very fast. "We were going at it 100 percent. Very physical," Bautista recalls. "There was a small, little indentation in the floor. His foot just slipped off it and tweaked and his knee collapsed in. It was that fast. It was torn."
Craig had experienced similar accidents before, so he was not really shocked when it happened to him again. "I've injured myself many times," he says. The 47-year-old actor initially worried that the accident could stop the production for a long time, but Craig was grateful that the recovery was faster than he thought so that he could get back to work sooner. "My fear was, if I had a proper surgery on it, it would stop filming for a long time. The amazing thing was, it didn't need it. It slowed me down. I couldn't run without pounding pain. So I took two weeks off, had the surgery and got back to work," he shares.
Craig is no stranger to the physical grind of playing Bond. While filming "Quantum of Solace" in 2008, the actor had an arm injury and also sliced off the tip of his finger.
