December 02, 2024
Daniel Craig has opened up about the “abject lesson” that he has learned from working in Quantum of Solace.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Knives Out actor candidly shared his experience of filming the movie without the script and also admitted that it was the "f****** nightmare".
"Paul Haggis did a pass on the script, then he went off and joined a picket line,” he began by saying. “And we didn't have writers, so we didn't have a script.”
"We probably should never have gone and started production, but we did,” the Hollywood actor recalled when the screenwriter, Paul Haggis, had submitted the script just before the WGA, Writers' Guild of America, went on strike from November 5, 2007 to February 12, 2008.
Meanwhile, Craig, who portrayed the role of secret agent James Bond with a codename 007, highlighted his contribution in the script of Quantum of Solace, told the publication, "I ended up writing a lot of that film.”
“I probably shouldn't really say, and I do not want a credit, it's fine - but we were in that state because that's what we're allowed to do. I was allowed to work."
"Under WGA (Writers' Guild of America) rules we were allowed to work with a director and write scenes. But there's some amazing stunt sequences in that, and I'm still bearing the pins to prove it.”
Before concluding, he shared, “so in that sense there's a lot of great stuff in it, but it just didn't quite work. The storytelling wasn't there. And that's the abject lesson: going to start a movie without a script."