Daniel Craig ran away after breaking Dave Bautista’s nose on the set of Spectre
“He’s a lot tougher than I am," the 007 actor admitted. "I’ll give him that"
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While James Bond always keeps a steely composure in the face of danger, actor Daniel Craig may not always be so stoic. During a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show ahead of the theater arrival of his final Bond venture No Time To Die, Craig revealed that while filming 2015's Spectre, he broke Dave Bautista’s nose during a fight scene. In Spectre, big bad Bautista played Bond’s foe the assassin Mr. Hinx, and fellow interviewee Rami Malek’s reaction to hearing Craig broke former wrestler Bautista’s nose summed up how many of us would feel in the same situation.
“I threw a punch and hit him on the nose,” Craig said. “I heard this crack and I was like ‘Oh God no’ and ran away. I thought he was going to come after me, but he was so sweet.”
Bautista took the punch like a champ, and, according to Craig, reset his nose and was ready to continue filming. “He’s a lot tougher than I am. I’ll give him that,” Craig said.
The scales were eventually balanced in another fight sequence where Bautista throws Craig against a wall. The Bond actor said he felt Bautista was being “gentle” with him, and challenged Bautista to be a little more rough, resulting in a knee injury, halting production.
“I ended up on the wall, but my knee was over here somewhere,” Craig said. “I knew and it was horrible because if anyone’s had a serious injury, you just know in your head that something is really wrong.”
He was not immune to injury on the set of No Time To Die as well, as he says he broke his ankle “literally walking down a plank.” As Craig’s time playing Bond runs out with No Time To Die, the search for the next 007 begins next year. “We want Daniel to have his time of celebration,” says producer Barbara Broccoli. “Next year we’ll start thinking about the future.”
On The Graham Norton Show, Craig admitted he will probably feel a little—or very—bitter toward his successor after playing Bond for the last fifteen years. “It’s been incredible to do these films,” Craig said. “It’s very emotional. I’m glad I am ending it on my own terms. I’m grateful to the producers for letting me do that. But I sure miss it. I’ll probably be incredibly bitter when the new person takes over.”
No Time to Die opens in theaters on October 8.
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If James Bond broke my nose I’d ask him to sign it.
Craig sounds like an all right guy, and I’m sure he would sign your cast without hesitation.
I’m never washing this nose again!
If anyone broke my nose, I’d have an erection.
On the flipside, if I were on set when someone broke Big Dave’s nose I would also run away.
The “serious knee injury” link just goes to another article that almost says the exact same thing verbatim. I thought there would be more information about what happened to the knee, but instead it just took me to another site with an almost identical story.
Why didn’t they just whip out their dicks, instead of hurting co-workers?
Because it wasn’t that kind of movie? They were literally just doing their jobs when these accidents occurred.
Now he can finally do the project everyone’s been asking for — a sequel to A Kid In King Arthur’s Court.
No way! We need to reboot New World Zorro!
Well hello General Martok, was not expecting to see you here
Craig was reported to have yelled “Not in the face, please!” as he made his strategic retreat.
It’s nice to hear stories about people in the entertainment industry being decent humans. We don’t get that enough.
Craig is one of the very best. Gives the term “class act” new meaning.
Bautista is too. Over the weekend he adopted a dog that was abused.
Seriously. I’m so tired of reading about actors murdering other actors after on-set accidents.
First time I’m hearing about this “serious” knee injury but I know in the new movie someone threatens to shoot him in the “good” knee. I wonder if that’s just a coincidence or an in-joke, or does he have a noticeably different gait?
Perfectly rational reaction.
This is so on-brand for Big Dave.
I don’t know what Graham Norton is wearing in that clip, but I’m on board.
I first saw Craig in a great British series called Our Friends in the North. A stellar cast, with a very young Mark Strong, Christopher Eccleston and Gina McKee. Well worth catching.
In the early 90’s a friend who was doing a semester abroad didn’t realize he had seen Daniel Craig in a production of Angels in America until he dug the program out of a box a few years ago.Craig delivered a monologue fully nude and according to the friend, let’s just say, “007″ doesn’t quite do him justice.
This is a nice little story but… how could a mere human break Dave Bautista’s nose?