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Whilst on location in Austria this week, principal
cast and crew members on "Quantum
of Solace"
spoke to the media about shooting the new James Bond
adventure...
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Production Diary (31)
9th May 2008
Media visited the location filming of the upcoming
James Bond film "Quantum
of Solace" in Bregenz, Austria,
earlier this week where scenes
were being filmed on the floating "Tosca" opera
stage. Principal cast and crew members - including Daniel
Craig (007), Olga Kurylenko (Camille), Mathieu Amalric (Dominic
Greene),
Anatole Taubman (Elvis), Jesper Christensen (Mr White), director
Marc Forster, and production designer Dennis Gassner - spoke
to television and gave roundtable interviews to the press. Click
here for coverage of the photocall.
Daniel Craig
We've got a set of incredibly talented and rich team of people
who are making this movie and who are throwing so much energy
in to it. Everybody is working incredibly hard, as they want
to, because they are proud to be involved with a Bond movie and
the Bond franchise itself.
Yes, this is a different Bond we're making. One of the things
that we were setting up in the last movie was that Bond has begun
and that it's the beginning of his career and his attitude towards
life and women was very narrow minded. He had his heart broken
in Casino Royale, and so this one is more about him coming to
terms about that and maybe learning a bit about himself and who
he is - and he's James Bond.
Above: Bond and Camille from scenes at the end of the movie
shot in Chile last month
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On The Stunts - I haven't hurt myself badly on this movie, but I've been sore
every day. I enjoy the physical side of filming, I always have.
I've thrown myself in to this because I get a kick out of it
and we can do things and achieve things that make the plot and
the storyline move forward much better if I stay involved in
as much of the filming as possible.
On 'Being' James Bond - I'm as far removed from this character
as I could possibly be... so this is major acting. Sometimes
with characters it's to
greater or lesser degrees. I had never done something on the
scale of Casino Royale before, so that obviously created very
different feelings for me, and very different challenges compared
to movies I'd done before. So the outcome was very different
too because we had such a great success with it.
I tend to
separate who I am and what I do, and this is what I think you
have to
do. Who I am is something very private. I
like the job of acting, every aspect of it. The collective
process of making a film... to work with interesting and talented
people
who inspire you... That for me has been the essential part
of what I do.
Above: Dominic Greene arrives at the opera, and relaxes
in the executive box
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Jesper Christensen
Last time Bond spent the whole
of Casino Royale learning the lesson that you don't kill people
before you ask them the important questions. He learned that
- he shot me in the knee. So we start the next one with him
asking
me the questions. And then he screws up and stuff happens.
Anatole Taubman
I've been on big sets, big productions but this is really a whole
empire. It is a world brand so you
do feel that. You also feel the pressure that something big's
going
to come out of this. Big anticipation. Casino Royale set new
trends within that format. I'm sure Marc Forster, who is amazing,
will manifest that whole new dynamic, that whole new realism
that Casino Royale so beautifully started.
Above Left: Mr White is interrogated at an MI6 safe house
in Siena, Italy
Above Right: Anatole Taubman plays henchman Elvis
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Marc Forster
I wouldn't call it revenge, it's more a case of psychological damage. Bond is
trying to figure out who these people are and what is the relationship between
them, because he is realizing just how many there are. He is trying to figure
out how they are connected because the interesting thing is we have several
bad guys in this movie. Dominic Greene is the lead one but there are a couple
of other ones and he is trying to connect them all.
Dennis Gassner
I've created massive sets in
six countries. It's been an amazing journey. He is James Bond,
so I've taken that great angular face and great blue eyes and
used that as our pattern language for this film
Above Left: Director Marc Forster takes notes during filming
in Chile
Above Right: The floating stage hosting the "Tosca" opera
performance
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