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Dreamy Daniel Craig’s first post-Bond movie sees him donning a white coat and fighting to save the world in The Invasion
August 2007

This month’s The Invasion is being released nine months after the film that changed Daniel Craig’s life forever. Yet, in a strange twist of moviemaking chronology, it was while filming the loose remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers that the British actor got word he would be James Bond in last year’s Casino Royale.

Craig says it was the intensive, 16-hour days on The Invasion’s Washington, D.C., set that spared him much of the anxiety over whether or not he’d snagged the role of the British secret agent.

“We were right in the midst of filming some of the most crucial sequences, so it was important that we focused on the work we were doing, not what we might be doing after we finished the film,” remembers Craig, lounging in a Beverly Hills hotel, dressed in a finely tailored Brioni suit.

“I still hadn’t decided if I wanted to commit that much of my life to playing the same character for an infinite number of films,” says Craig, “so I just concentrated on my character I was playing then and trying to help Nicole find a cure to an alien disease. I was too busy trying to save her son in the film, and the rest of the planet, to drive myself crazy waiting for the call.”

After a short break to fly off to London for a press conference announcing to the world that Bond had gone blonde, within a week Craig was back in the American capital battling extraterrestrials. “That was a really surreal time for me. One day I’m in London fighting off the global media, and the next day I’m back in Washington fighting off aliens for global domination. Actually, I don’t know which group was harder to beat off.”

As The Invasion begins, an unexplainable epidemic is quickly infecting populations all over the world, while the planet’s top scientists are unable to locate the source of the disease or a way to fight it. Then Carol (Nicole Kidman), a Washington, D.C., psychiatrist, figures out that the disease did not originate on our planet. While her theory is shunned by most, Carol has to trust her instincts, especially when the disease infects her own son.

Determined to develop a vaccine, Carol enlists the help of her colleague Ben (Craig) and the duo realize their failure to find a cure could mean the end of the human race.

While most of The Invasion was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall), when the cast was reassembled in January of this year to shoot additional action sequences, Hirschbiegel was unavailable, so the Wachowski Brothers (the Matrix trilogy) were brought in to write new material and director James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) came in to supervise the filming of the new scenes.

“Reshoots and filming additional scenes happen all the time when you’re making a movie, it’s nothing strange or out of the ordinary,” insists Craig. “And if you have a cast that is committed to a lot of other projects — like becoming a secret agent — often, it can take a bit of time to get everybody back together. But we did. Look, reshoots are scheduled to make films better, and from what I’ve seen, it has — it’s going to entertain and shock a lot of people.”

What attracted you to The Invasion?

“It wasn’t one thing in particular, it was several things. I’ve always loved science-fiction movies, so it was a genre of film that I wanted to try out as an actor. I mean, I had done Tomb Raider, but that was more of an action film, and this is a real science-fiction movie with this great conspiracy thriller going on at the same time — very political, very extraterrestrial and very eerie.”

What did you learn about Nicole Kidman that you didn’t know before working with her?

“More than anything, I learned that she absolutely deserves that Oscar she won [for The Hours] because she is probably one of the most talented actresses in this business. She had some very tough scenes to do, and not just physically, but emotionally, and she did them with no problem at all.”

Are you a fan of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

“Yes, I am. I love that original Body Snatchers and the Donald Sutherland remake. But I really don’t consider this a remake or sequel or new installment, because the stories are really very different. I think that people are using the term ‘based on’ because there are certain plot points — which I have been sworn not to reveal — that the films share. Beyond that, though, I think we made a whole new science-fiction movie.”

You became something of a real-life hero while filming a scene at the Chilean embassy. Is it true that you saved Nicole Kidman’s life?

“Saving Nicole’s life, I think, is a bit of an exaggeration [laughs]. Certainly, any of us could have gotten hurt, but I don’t think I really rescued anyone from being seriously injured.”

What happened?

“They had the rain machines on heavy, so the water was really coming down hard, so it was very difficult to see much outside of this SUV Nicole and I were in…. Nicole was driving, I’m in the passenger seat, and we were supposed to drive up to the entrance of the embassy and let the valet park the SUV. Everything seemed fine when Nicole and I got out, but then I noticed that the SUV was still moving — with no one in it! Apparently, Nicole had forgotten to put it in park, so it just started rolling down this hill. Nicole was right next to it, people were in front of it and it was on its own. So, without even thinking, I jumped in to stop it. I hadn’t closed the passenger door when I got out, so I jumped in, eyed the emergency brake and immediately engaged it. It stopped.”

While you were filming The Invasion you were in meetings for Bond. But just weeks before your part was officially announced, you said you weren’t sure you wanted it. Why?

“Mainly that it was going to be a big leap for me. In those kind of situations I always feel you should do that list — the pros and cons list — and there were an awful lot of pros and an awful lot of cons, but I really didn’t get around to the cons list.... In the beginning, I realized it was a big commitment to make to something that I didn’t really have a huge amount of ambition about doing, to tell you the truth.”

How did starring in Casino Royale change your life?

“It’s certainly made me more recognizable on the street, and I’m getting handed a lot more scripts than ever before, but I’m trying not to let it change who I am, because it really hasn’t as far as I’m concerned. More people just know who I am, and I’m lucky to be part of this film legacy, but I’m still an actor looking for good
material to do. It hasn’t made me special or given me superpowers.”

Was there ever any point where you let the tabloid or internet criticism get you down?

“Look, it did affect me. It affected me. I will not lie to you. I went, ‘You know what, what can I do? I can’t answer it. I can’t start getting onto internet sites and talking back. I get it.’ I got the passion that people felt for Bond, and I understand it. I make films, and normally when I make a film we wait until we get to the premiere and we get to the time when the press sees it and then I start getting reviews. I was like, ‘See the damn movie and then you can say what you like about it, but watch the movie!’ There was no point in getting in tit-for-tat arguments about the way that I looked.”

How does working on large North American films compare to small British productions?

“There’s not really an awful lot of difference. I know that sounds kind of crazy. I mean, if you’re doing
something like Tomb Raider that’s a different deal. That’s an FX-driven movie and there’s a lot of waiting around, and it’s very dull. But if you’re on a movie like, let’s say we compare Road to Perdition with Layer Cake, once you’re on the set it’s the same deal. You’re trying to achieve the same thing. It’s just pared down. The food might be better and there might be bigger and better sets, but that’s just because it’s a money thing. Once the camera starts rolling, it’s about you and someone else or you and three other people. It’s the same thing and you apply the same rules.”

Do you consider this the best time of your life?

“I hope not. Not yet. God, I’ve got a few more years in me — God, I hope.”

So this isn’t the prime of Daniel Craig?

“I don’t know whether this is it. I feel very good about doing this now…. I don’t think that I could have done this five, six or seven years ago. And I have James Bond to thank for that. Bond came for me at a time when I went, ‘You know what, this is a huge challenge, but I really feel excited about doing it.’ If I hadn’t been able to have done that, then there was no need for me to try anything else. That was my test. And, it being successful, that was my ticket into making movies. I’m part of the show now, and I’ve got so many more movies I want to do, I’ll be doing this until I drop.”

Earl Dittman is a Houston-based entertainment writer.

Источник: http://www.cineplex.com

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