Craig's Spectacular Journey As James Bond Sets A Challenge For Next 007

The blond-haired, blue-eyed actor was not well known to the general public when he took over from Pierce Brosnan in 2006

LONDON

After 15 years playing the legendary British spy James Bond, Daniel Craig is making way for a new generation of actors following his fifth 007 film, “No Time

To Die,” which has its world premiere in London on Tuesday. The blond-haired, blue-eyed actor was not well known to the general public when he took over from Pierce Brosnan in 2006, and seemed far removed from the character created by writer Ian Fleming.

Even Sam Mendes, director of 2015 Bond film “Spectre”, admitted that he thought at the time that it was a bad fit.

“I thought Bond had become the opposite of what Daniel is — a slightly disengaged, urbane, jokey, eyebrow-raising, you know, a pastiche in a way,” he told the BBC.