I got the script before I did the casting, and it was the first time I got a script where your name is printed on every page. But as you’ll see in the story below, the man got the job done, and made sure to secure himself for his audition:

And as he told Vulture the story, Mads Mikkelsen admitted that he totally panicked over this happening. The rope scene in Casino Royale isn't the only time Craig's Bond is tortured, but it is the most impactful not only in his era of the character but for the franchise as a whole.Even in the beginning of the 007 reboot, the fact that a script for Casino Royale was even circulating in the wild is something that could have been major. The scene ultimately serves as a painfully realistic way of extracting information while also being a torture method that has never really been seen in a movie before. While previous scenes of this nature were intense in their own way, they also often felt over-engineered and needlessly complicated.Ĭasino Royale's torture scene strips away the fluff and makes Mikkelsen's more grounded villain even more sinister. Sean Connery's 007, for example, was famously strapped to a table in Goldfinger as a powerful laser inches its way towards his crotch.

The torture scene, often carried out by a villain not for information but simply to give 007 a slow and painful death, is a key tenet of the Bond franchise. Drawing from the grittier Bourne movies, Casino Royale presents a more grounded take on the character, doing away with outlandish gadgets and the corny one-liners to present a 007 film that feels significantly more serious than any past installment. After the suave and increasingly ridiculous films of the Pierce Brosnan era of Bond, Casino Royale announces loud and clear that Craig's tenure will be very different.

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