Mads Mikkelsen and Daniel Craig Went to Town With Torture Scene in Casino Royale

Casino Royale directed by Martin Campbell, is the first film in which Daniel Craig plays the role of Agent 007. Despite their initial dislike of the new James Bond actor, audiences were won over and quietly agreed with the producers that the blue-eyed blonde was a good choice for the new chapter of the franchise.

However, not every fan of the series knows that Daniel Craig and Mads Mikkelsen, partnering him in some scenes, got a little carried away during the filming of a certain sequence. The moment in question is when the villain, Le Chiffre, played by the Dane, tortures the main character by hitting him in the testicles with a knotted rope. In an interview with GQ Mikkelsen revealed that the actors wanted to make this scene even more brutal..

The actors let their imagination run wild and came up with worse and worse tortures that Bond could be subjected to. At one point, however, the director reacted by pointing out that such drastic scenes are not appropriate for a Bond movie.

This just goes to show how important is the role of the director, who must uphold convention and good taste, especially if you are making productions that belong to a certain canon. While creativity and rich imagination are something essential for an actor, it would not be good if there was no one to make the final artistic decisions for the sake of the film.

Pamela Jakiel

Pamela Jakiel

Finished film studies, graduate of the Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University. Her master's thesis was about new spirituality in contemporary cinema. The editor of the Filmomaniak service since April 2023, supports the lead editor and the boss of all newspeople. She used to write for naEkranie. If she's not watching The Ninth Gate for the hundredth time, then she's reading books by Therese Bohman and Donna Tartt for the first time. She prefers gnosis over dread, dramas over horrors, Jung over Freud. She looks for symbolist paintings in museums. Runs long distances, and does even the longer ones on a gravel. Loves dachshunds.