He took over for Timothy Dalton, who ended his two-movie Bond stint with 'License to Kill' in 1989.
If you get on with somebody well, you never really break that.'īrosnan came along in the mid-1990s after an unusually long hiatus of six years between Bond films. They're completely different actors but both are brilliant men with a fantastic sense of humor, very self-mocking, which you need to play Bond. But you miss anyone you make a relationship with and you think at some point you'll maybe cross paths again. There's no comparison between him and Daniel. I did four Bonds with him so I missed him after he finished with the role. He was a very warm man and always a lot of fun, always laughing and joking. 'Daniel's an incredible talent and I love working with him but I still miss Pierce. For Dench, however, Craig's tenure marked the back half of her own time with the franchise. In an interview with British tabloid The People (via its shared site with The Mirror) while 'Skyfall' was in theaters, Dench said:
There are those of us who think 'Casino Royale' is the best Bond movie and that the Eon Productions franchise really started to come alive in an interesting way when Craig came on board.
