Daniel Craig hated this James Bond film: ‘F–king nightmare’

Daniel Craig found no solace on the set of his second James Bond movie.

The British actor recalled the “difficult” time he had making 2008’s “Quantum of Solace” on the latest episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast.

“F–king nightmare,” Craig said, explaining how the 2007-2008 Writers’ Strike interrupted the production of the movie.

“Paul Haggis did a pass on the script. Then he went off and joined the picket line and we didn’t have writers. So we didn’t have a script,” he recalled.

“We should never probably have started production, but we did,” Craig added. “I ended up writing a lot of that film, which I probably shouldn’t say. I do not want the credit. It’s fine.”

“Quantum of Solace” was directed by Marc Foster and also starred Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeffrey Wright and Judi Dench.

Despite the film making almost $600 million at the worldwide box office, it received negative reviews from critics and is considered the worst of Craig’s five Bond movies.

“But it came out,” Craig said. “There are some amazing stunt sequences in it. I’m still wearing the pins to prove it. In that sense, there’s a lot of great stuff in it, but it just didn’t quite work.”

“The storytelling wasn’t there,” Craig continued. “That’s the abject lesson. Going to start a movie without a script is not a good idea.”

Craig announced back in 2019 that that he was done playing James Bond after five films. His final turn as the iconic spy agent was in 2021’s “No Time to Die,” which featured his character’s death.

In a recent interview with The New Yorker, Craig — who is doing press to promote his new erotic film “Queer” —  explained what made him hesitant to play James Bond.

“I would say one of my biggest reservations about playing [Bond] would be the construct of masculinity,” he shared. “It was often very laughable, but you can’t mock it and expect it to work. You have to buy into it.”

Craig continued, “I mean, the vulnerability of human beings is always very interesting to me. We’re all vulnerable. It doesn’t matter who you are. It doesn’t matter how tough you are, everybody’s vulnerable. But it’s how boys are brought up, how men are expected to behave.”

The “Knives Out” actor also noted that he’s become “a different person” since he started his role as Bond.

“Listen, [Bond] is nearly twenty years of my life,” he said. “When I took it on I was one person. I’m now completely a different person. I’m not doing this movie [“Queer”] in response to that. I’m not that small. But I couldn’t have done this movie when I was doing Bond. It would’ve felt kind of, Why? What are you trying to prove?”

The next 007 has yet to be announced, though it’s been rumored that Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 34, was offered the job.