It’s an .... intense scene, to say the least. In 2006's Casino Royale, Mads Mikkelsen's bloodthirsty banker, Le Chiffre, tries to torture some poker winnings out of Daniel Craig's James Bond. Le Chiffre immediately pulls up a chair—cuts a hole through the seat—so he can strip Bond naked and whip his bare undercarriage. It's perhaps one of the most memorable scenes from the famed Bond film—an unprecedented moment in the storied franchise. And it was almost even more intense.
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In a new interview with Vulture, Mikkelsen talks about watching Rafael Nadal smack around tennis balls, his first moments of finding fame, his leading role in Hannibal, and of course, his time filming Casino Royale. Mikkelsen revealed that the torture scene—the very same one where Bond yelps, "Now the whole world will know that you died scratching my balls!"—almost went even further. At the time, Mikkelsen and Craig were both relative strangers to big-budget films. So, he says—the duo tried to bring an indie sensibility to the torture sequence:
We’ve never seen Bond naked, and we’ve never seen him that fragile, and then obviously there are some undertones with the rope. We were discussing how to approach it, and we just went further out with something that was really brutal and insane. One idea was I actually cut him up somewhere, and he had to suffer with that for a while. At a certain point, director Martin Campbell was just smiling and said, "Boys, come back to the table. This is a Bond film. We can’t go there.” We were lost in our indie world, right? You have to respect that. It is a Bond film. That’s the framework you need to understand."
Cut him up some place?" Your brain could go crazy with that one. Of course, perhaps Le Chiffre dumped the rope and got cutting a finger going with his blade or something. Be that as it may, imagine a scenario where Mikkelsen and Craig truly went insane and envisioned a scene where the broker delivered Bond inept. Prior in the scene, Le Chiffre reveals to Bond that "there will be nothing left to recognize you as a man." On a determinedly a whole lot lighter note, Mikkelsen added that he nearly lost the Casino Royale script and blew the cover on the whole film. Clearly, he was considering his lines on a flight. When the plane landed? Mikkelsen hustled off the plane, likely departing the content in that sleeve where the tourism publications resident. casino website
I nodded off on the plane, and I failed to remember it on the plane. I'm the motivation behind why they put your name on the content. This is the thing that they're attempting to stay away from. I froze. I was out of the plane. I'd strolled perhaps a moment or something. I understood, Oh, no, and I returned, and they wouldn't give me access. I think I was simply fortunate. I think someone who tidied up that plane had no clue about what it was and tossed it out. In any case, that is clearly a total debacle on the off chance that it winds up on the first page of The Sun. That is to say, this is the most exceedingly awful method of blowing it. I got tightly to those scenes some way or another, and I proceeded to do the tryout.
There you go. Daniel Craig's Bond films saved by one honorable airline
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