Daniel Craig on bidding Bond goodbye in 'No Time to Die'

New York: When Daniel Craig first got the gig, he felt like something had gone amiss. "You’ve got the wrong guy,” he told the producers.

But Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson insisted. No, he was the one. He was James Bond.

Craig, then a rising performer but far from the expected choice, never had any ambitions to play James Bond. He had assumed he was being strung along as part of a massive casting machine, one of dozens of actors screen tested.