Bonds have always belonged to a certain physical model: suave brunettes with side parts, Guy Smiley-types who seem to have been born in a tux. Will their societal oppression never cease?) But it wasn’t just the fair hair that seemed wrong to strict constructionists.
As convicted murderer Perry Smith, Craig was mercurial, needy, and frightening.Ĭraig’s casting, at first, had some Bond fans up in arms, in part because of the color of the actor’s hair. More recently, he made out with Truman Capote (Toby Jones) in Infamous, Douglas McGrath’s retelling of the story of the writing of In Cold Blood.
Craig had few lines but a key function: He was the devil-may-care foil to Eric Bana’s more morally tormented hero. Since being cast as Bond, Craig has also played an assassin for the Mossad in Steven Spielberg’s Munich (2005).
