Daniel's civil duty

27 August 2008 02:40pm

Daniel Craig apparently sees James Bond as civil servant, not a secret agent.

The 40-year-old actor is playing MI5 hunk 007 for the second time in Quantum of Solace, but revealed to Empire magazine Bond's British civility is a major appeal of the role.

Daniel said: "This stuff is important to me. You have the monarchy, you have government, and then you have the Civil Service. The reason the Civil Service remains a non-political organisation is that if the s**t hits the fan like goose-stepping Nazi b*****ds, you hope the Civil Service will turn around and go, 'We've got it covered.'"

The Bond star is adamant that in moving with the times the Bond films are nothing like the US spy movie series about Jason Bourne, starring Matt Damon. Daniel dismisses Bourne stunt director Dan Bradley's involvement as second unit director as a link.

He said: "I don't think it's anything like Bourne at all.

"Dan's here to do exactly what he's good at doing, he's just come off Indiana Jones, are we going to be more like Indiana Jones? We're applying Dan's talents to this movie. Sorry to be political about it but I'm certainly not going to get into a p***ing competition with the Bourne fans."

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