Actor: Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig’s casting as James Bond was met with organised public hostility, including a campaign website, largely because he was blond. Casino Royale ended the argument in its first twenty minutes.
He played the character across five films with a continuous emotional arc, which the series had never attempted, and No Time to Die gave Bond a definitive ending.
Layer Cake and Road to Perdition are the pre-Bond work worth finding, and Munich shows what he could do in an ensemble.
Knives Out and Glass Onion gave him a late comic register as Benoit Blanc, complete with an accent he clearly enjoys, and Queer moved him somewhere else entirely.
