A recent interview with Daniel Craig reveals two very real things about the actor playing the new Bond. One is that we, the Internet people, hurt him by being so negative about his casting, and possibly not just him either. The other is that it made him even more determined to make this new Bond work, and not just new because of the actor.

In the interview he talks about how he was first approached to play the character, and when he asked for the script and was told there wasn't one yet he turned it down immediately. When a script appeared he read it and was very much surprised, he expected to hate it but ended up loving it.

"I think there has to be an element of cruelty," says Craig of his Bond. "Certain things he does should be questionable. I think you should go, 'Fuck, that's not nice.' He is an assassin."...

...We might disappoint some people who want more fantasy," he says, "but I think a lot of people are waiting for this type of Bond."

He also said that after this time he decided to come out all guns blazing and really deliver the best Bond he could, if not better.

Craig goes on to say that he had a few dark days after he found out what was being written about him after the casting announcement. At the time he was in the Bahamas working hard. I guess all the people who were sitting in their sofa's slagging the poor man off didn't think of the guy himself, one of the beauties of the Internet, the distancing of the personal, of the human contact.

You know this whole Internet thing can be pretty damn pathetic and cruel sometimes. However the good thing is that our new Bond kept going and perhaps we'll see the first successful change in direction for the movie character in some time. I know that now, I'm keen to see this harder, darker Bond.

The interview is over at Esquire through CommanderBond.