Casino Royale rooftop chase
Martin Campbell’s 2006 movie opens with a sickeningly vertiginous chase sequence on a construction site. The scene, in which James Bond pursues a Frenchman who has stolen his bag of potatoes, was Craig’s first 007 chase on screen – and he carried it off with aplomb. It features a genuine acrobatic stunt by the actor, which was voted the best James Bond stunt of all time in a Radio Times poll. Craig later says he chose to jump off the crane: "It was important to me that I do as many of my own stunts as possible for authenticity… I didn't get fit just to take my shirt off." Watch the chase on YouTube
Casino Royale swimming trunks scene
Critics claimed that Daniel Craig’s “look” didn’t fit the mould. But when he emerged confidently and impressively from the sea in a tiny pair of trunks, the scene marked a Venus-like rebirth for James Bond. Roger Moore’s retro hairy chest and Pierce Brosnan’s trim lightweight figure were history as the world greeted the protein-shake action-gentleman. In typically modest style, Craig claimed the iconic scene was a fluke: “It happened by accident. Where we were filming in the Bahamas, the beach has a very low shelf and the water is very narrow. I kind of swam underwater for a while and then came up, and of course it’s only up to my knees. So you saw more of me than we were expecting!”