Sure, maybe Le Chiffre ditched the rope and started cutting a finger off with his knife or something. 'Cut him up somewhere?' Your mind could run wild with that one. That’s the framework you need to understand.

We can’t go there.” We were lost in our indie world, right? You have to respect that. At a certain point, director Martin Campbell was just smiling and said, 'Boys, come back to the table. One idea was I actually cut him up somewhere, and he had to suffer with that for a while. We were discussing how to approach it, and we just went further out with something that was really brutal and insane. So, he says-the duo tried to bring an indie sensibility to the torture sequence: We’ve never seen Bond naked, and we’ve never seen him that fragile, and then obviously there are some undertones with the rope. At the time, Mikkelsen and Craig were both relative strangers to big-budget films. Mikkelsen revealed that the torture scene-the very same one where Bond yelps, 'Now the whole world will know that you died scratching my balls!'-almost went even further. In a new interview with Vulture, Mikkelsen talks about watching Rafael Nadal smack around tennis balls, his first moments of finding fame, his leading role in Hannibal, and of course, his time filming Casino Royale. Why Daniel Craig Returned For 'No Time To Die'.A Brief History of James Bond's 007 Designation.The Case for Regé-Jean Page to Play James Bond.He passed away in his home in July 1983 at 73 years old. A few years later, in February 1983, after being hospitalized for 10 days, Niven returned to his home in Switzerland, where he continued to decline in health. They were together until his death in 1983.Īfter experiencing fatigue and muscle weakness in 1980, Niven was diagnosed with ALS in 1981. In 1948, Niven met and married his second wife Hjördis Paulina Tersmeden and had two children with her. Niven married his first wife Primula 'Primmie' Susan Rollo in 1940 and had two sons with her before she passed away at the age of 28 after falling down a flight of stairs. He was working on a third novel when he passed away. After 'Casino Royale,' Niven starred in a few films, including 'Before Winter Comes,' 'Paper Tiger' and 'Death on the Nile.' His final film role came in 1983's 'Better Late Than Never.' While starring in all these films, Niven also managed to write four books, an autobiography, which sold five million copies, a collection of short stories and two novels.

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