Daniel Craig’s final outing as fictional super-spy James Bond in No Time To Die may be earning rave reviews, but the British actor recalls a period when his acting chops weren’t quite so appreciated.
In an interview with The Guardian published on Friday, film director Rian Johnson asked the actor to recall “the worst experience you’ve ever had while performing on stage.”
“Give us a real horror story,” urged Rian, who directed Daniel in the 2019 film Knives Out.
He recalled “being bombarded” with Starbursts while performing as a teenager on stage in Newcastle.
“We’d do three afternoon matinees a week and it was just school buses of kids who were not into seeing Romeo and Juliet,” he remembered.
“They had bags of Opal Fruits (Starbursts) and they’d just throw them constantly onto the stage.”
Daniel said he came up with a way to tackle the flying candy, though.
“Eventually I just got so weary of it I started eating them, which got a round of applause.”