And it was joyful.”įor more such news, stay tuned to Koimoi. He said, “I was nervous, I remember that day, knowing that the scene was good, knowing that it was on the edge and you came in, and you just smacked it out of the park. “It was a wonderful day for me – you, maybe not so much! It was eight hours of you screaming your lungs out,” Mikkelsen added.ĭaniel had the last word and said that, overall, it was indeed a joyful experience. Casino Royale is probably my favourite Bond movie because of its intense scenes (The African Rundown, the torture scene). We discussed the big torture scene and went deep down the rabbit hole, me and Daniel. Daniel came straight from independent, more intimate films, and I had experience in Dealer. 'Daniel Craig, myself and Martin Campbell had a lot of ideas. He also said that he enjoyed torturing the Knives Out actor immensely on-screen. In an interview with GQ Mikkelsen revealed that the actors wanted to make this scene even more brutal. It was the torture scene with Le Chiffre, Bautista would later add. It was made out of plywood and you got splinters going up like that.” So, I did this audition where I recreated a scene from Casino Royale, he told Total Film. He said, “So I had to give over to the fact that this thing would not break because was swinging the f*ck out of it.” His co-star Mads Mikkelsen also chimed in and added, “It did break.
Daniel Craig at first believed the plywood to be strong enough to not shatter.
