Mark Strong shares helpful reminder not to get super drunk with Daniel Craig the night before a James Bond audition
Daniel Craig has played MI6 agent James Bond over the course of four films—and apparently in a fifth movie that we won’t believe is real until we’re actually watching it. Fellow English pretend-spy Mark Strong was up for the role of a Bond villain during the franchise’s Pierce Brosnan era—and he might’ve received it, too, if it weren’t for the devious plans of Craig, who seems to have been preparing to defeat his enemies even before he became 007.
Strong told the story of his Bond audition on a recent instalment of There’s Something About Movies (which you can watch here). After preparing for his tryout, Strong “went out for a drink” in celebration and, as he puts it, “I got pissed.”
“I overdid it and the next day I was severely hungover,” he says. “I started and then I just forgot my lines. I couldn’t remember what they were and they all just kind of fell apart.”