Daniel Craig: “Most scripts suck”

According to former James Bond actor Daniel Craig, he rarely gets his hands on a script that he likes immediately. “Most scripts that are sent to you are rubbish,” said Craig (54) in an interview with the German Press Agency in London. “They’re okay, but they need a lot of work. You have to sit down and see if you can work something out.”

That was different in the crime comedy “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”, which premieres on Netflix on Friday (December 23) and in which Craig plays the quirky US detective Benoit Blanc. “I saw it and read it and I knew right away who this guy was,” says crime fan Craig of the script. “To get something so polished, so exciting and so funny, that’s something that happens very, very rarely.”

Director and screenwriter Rian Johnson returned the compliment straight away. “He’s one of the most gifted actors on the planet,” Johnson said of his leading man. Craig is also “very, very funny.”