As he approaches the end of his time as James Bond, with his final outing No Time To Die just days away, Daniel Craig looked back over half a decade to his only – so far – appearance in a Star Wars film in The Force Awakens as the mind-tricked First Order Stormtrooper Rey confuses as she escapes capture on Starkiller Base with BBC Radio 1’s film critic Ali Plumb.
“I don’t think I could’ve done that if I hadn’t have been James Bond. Yeah, there are lovely, lovely things like that. And having the hutzpah to do that is because I’m James Bond. I wouldn’t have done that any other way. But I asked the second AD on Star Wars, who’s our second AD, a lovely guy called Ben Dixon. And I said, ‘Ben, come on. Come on. Get me in. I can be a stormtrooper. He was like, ‘Ask JJ’. JJ was like, ‘Get him in’. He gave me a scene. I just thought I was just going to stand at the back holding a gun. I would’ve been happy with that but he actually gave me a scene.”
