Let me take this opportunity to thank him for both.” The moment inspired, and continued to inspire, much highbrow academic chatter about whether Craig had reversed the male gaze in the Bond franchise.Īnd of course, Bond’s swim trunks became a bona fide trend. As critic Dana Stevens wrote in Slate, “Director Martin Campbell has chosen to give us a Bond who’s both metaphorically and literally stripped bare. The ocean scene was an immediate sensation, an encapsulation of the character’s new direction in Casino Royale: a Bond who had been toughened and chiseled by life, yet still remained emotionally vulnerable. He’s the one who comes out of the sea with his top off.”ĭaniel Craig on set in the Bahamas (Splash News)

In response to a Guardian writer’s crude question, “Did you feel that it was ungallant of Craig to have bigger boobs than you?,” she coolly responded, “Well, he is the Bond girl, not me. Related: Watch this Sexy Supercut of Movie Characters Showing Off their Beach BodsĮva Green, Casino Royale’s leading Bond girl, was also supportive of Bond’s flesh-baring (and spotlight-stealing) moment. And he 100 per cent went along with that.” “And he was every bit as sexy in that scene as the girls ever are. “It’s a joke between all of us that there is often someone coming out of the sea in a Bond film and I said, ‘Well, if someone is coming out of the sea, they have to look as sexy as Ursula Andress,’” Hemming told the fan site MI6 in 2006. When she learned that Craig had a swimsuit scene in his first Bond movie, she meticulously selected a pair of light blue swim trunks by GrigioPerla (the men’s division of Italian lingerie and beachwear designer La Perla) after what she described to the New York Times as a long and 'very amusing” fitting session with Craig. Hemming had been the designer for all of Brosnan’s Bond films, including Die Another Day, which featured Halle Berry in her own Ursula-Andress-inspired ocean homage. If Craig was unprepared for the attention paid to his swimsuit-clad body, one key member of the crew knew better: Costume designer Lindy Hemming.

Daniel Craig in the first publicity still from ‘Casino Royale’ (Everett)

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