Daniel Craig recalls schoolchildren pelting him with sweets at the theatre
‘I got so weary of it I started eating them,’ said Bond star
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Your support makes all the difference.Daniel Craig has reflected on the worst experience he’s ever had while performing on stage.
The James Bond star, whose last 007 film No Time to Die is out now, was asked by Knives Out director Rian Johnson about his biggest “horror story” from working in theatre.
Craig’s answer, published in a Guardian interview where fans and celebrities asked him questions, said that it was “being bombarded with Opal Fruits [AKA Starbursts] at the Tyne Theatre and Opera House when I must have been around 16 or 17”.
He added: “We’d do three afternoon matinees a week and it was just school buses of kids who were not into seeing Romeo and Juliet. They had bags of Opal Fruits and they’d just throw them constantly on to the stage. Eventually I just got so weary of it I started eating them, which got a round of applause.”
Craig has had a successful stage career, having played Shakespeare’s Iago in a 2016 production of Othello, and appeared in the plays Betrayal, A Steady Rain, A Number and many more.
This week it was announced that Craig’s first post-Bond role will be in a new production of Macbeth at New York’s Lyceum Theatre.
Elsewhere in the Guardian interview, Craig was asked by actor Jason Isaacs whether he’ll ever enter politics, to which he replied: “You must be f***ing joking.”
No Time to Die is in UK cinemas now and will be released in the US on 8 October. Find our review here.
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