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[Royal Dalton]

[Reflectionist]

*laughs*

Sorry, That's funny.

[Righty007]

Is this real?

[Scottlee]

It is true, I think. My non-Bond loving housemate told me about this earlier today. Says he heard it on the radio.

Worrying stuff.

[dinovelvet]

It is true, I think. My non-Bond loving housemate told me about this earlier today. Says he heard it on the radio.

Worrying stuff.

Hmm I dunno. When did this happen, exactly? His 'first fight scene' was a couple of weeks ago, so we're only now hearing about it? He looked fine at the press conference.

[Tarl_Cabot]

Who needs teeth anyway? Guiness goes down just fine without 'em.If they can make a CGI tsunami they should be able to fix his choopers. I'm not worried. This is afterall, the Bond with character era.

[dinovelvet]

It is true, I think. My non-Bond loving housemate told me about this earlier today. Says he heard it on the radio.

Worrying stuff.

Assuming it is true, it doesn't need to be a worrying issue. It'll actually make for some pretty good press when doing publicity, as in - The new Bond is so tough he insisted on doing all the fights for real, and even lost a couple of teeth in the process!

[The Dove]

If this is true, which I have serious doubts as I believe the Sunday Mirror is another one of those cheesy tabloids, Daniel Craig is tough..He won't let a few missing teeth stop him! Remember Pierce Brosnan blew his knee out doing the hovercraft stunt for Die Another Day, and Roger Moore was in the hospital for kidney stones during Live and Let Die and Moonraker, so there seems to be a tradition of the Bond actors suffering a few accidents! Not sure if Connery, Lazenby or Dalton suffered injuries,though I'm sure they must have!

[Righty007]

If this is true then I hope he will be given the best dental treatment available.

[Fro]

Not a terribly huge deal... those teeth can be put back in.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Is this the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth?

[JimmyBond]

Big deal, Brosnan got injured on all his Bond films.

[Blofeld's Cat]

The legacy continues.

[Righty007]

Why do you all keep comparing this to Brosnan? Brosnan only sustained minor injuries. He cut his upper lip (Tomorrow Never Dies) and hurt his knee (Die Another Day) but according to The Sunday Mirror, Daniel Craig got some of his teeth knocked out! Teeth do not just grow back therefore this is a much bigger deal than any of Brosnan's injuries.

[Qwerty]

Very hesitant to take this completely serious as it is the Sunday Mirror, but if so...

[JimmyBond]

Maybe saying "getting his teeth knocked out" is just another way of saying he got his clock cleaned

[TortillaFactory]

Teeth do not just grow back therefore this is a much bigger deal than any of Brosnan's injuries.

Yeah, but teeth get put back in all the time. With decent dental intervention it's not that big of a deal.

[Stax]

No, actually this is kind of a big deal. Dental implants don't always take. There could be some major dental work involved. Filming could be delayed. Craig could be swollen for awhile. They might have to do 2nd unit stuff. This is why they have stunt people!!

God, and look how Drudge has to put it:

"NEW BOND IS OW OW 7 /// New James Bond Daniel Craig has already failed to make the grade as tough guy - after villain knocked out two of his teeth in his FIRST fight scene! MORE..."

Edited by Stax, 19 February 2006 - 06:34 AM.

[dinovelvet]

No, actually this is kind of a big deal. Dental implants don't always take. There could be some major dental work involved. Filming could be delayed. Craig could be swollen for awhile. They might have to do 2nd unit stuff. This is why they have stunt people!!

God, and look how Drudge has to put it:

"NEW BOND IS OW OW 7 /// New James Bond Daniel Craig has already failed to make the grade as tough guy - after villain knocked out two of his teeth in his FIRST fight scene! MORE..."

Well Drudge obviously just copied the Mirror headline and the link goes nowhere when you click it, so it seems to be just the Mirror claiming this, still. Again, when did this happen? His first fight scene was the first day of shooting, which was about two weeks ago now. I didn't see any missing teeth at the press conference. Something isn't adding up.

Lest we forget, The Mirror was the source of the infamous Final Four Bond candidates - Henry Cavill, Goran Visnjic, Alex O'Lachlan and...Ewan Stewart. We all know how that worked out

Edited by dinovelvet, 19 February 2006 - 07:01 AM.

[Stax]

Just because he had "injury" make-up on in those pics from a few weeks ago doesn't mean he had been filming a fight scene then. It was just for continuity's sake. This, I believe, was supposed to be a fight between him and Mikkelsen, although they never have one in the script I read. He does have a doozy of a brawl with a guy in the stairwell of the casino and also one in Miami. It also could have been from the finale in Vienna, with an interior set in Prague doubling for that. Any of those scenes could have been the one where he got hurt.

Edited by Stax, 19 February 2006 - 07:21 AM.

[DanFan2]

The Sunday Mirror just posted the full story, along with a bunch of snide remarks about Daniel and a re-hash of other gossip:

http://www.sundaymir...-name_page.html

[dinovelvet]

OK looks like the Mirror have put up the full article here :

http://www.sundaymir...-name_page.html

Basically its much ado about nothing...it says the incident happened at the beginning of the month when filming the embassy fight, obviously before the press conference, and he was looking and speaking just fine there. Most of the article is just rehashes of previous ones so the Mirror can take potshots at Craig. Most bizarre is this sentence :

"The Sunday Mirror revealed last year how Craig would be starring alongside stunning Thandie Newton"

Er yeah, Cheers, Sunday Mirror!

[Donovan]

No problem. They'll just give him a set of these.

[Icephoenix]

One begins to wonder if this is just anything more than the pressess attempts to make Craig seem like a whimp (first the boat, now this), and by doing so making it the exact opposite!

[dinovelvet]

One begins to wonder if this is just anything more than the pressess attempts to make Craig seem like a whimp (first the boat, now this), and by doing so making it the exact opposite!

Yeah any actor who gets teeth knocked out for a fight scene deserves praise for going beyond the call of duty IMHO! At least he was IN the freakin' fight instead of sitting back and letting a stuntman take the blow. Brosnan complains "Ooh, me knee!" when filming DAD but he didn't get called a wuss. Craig is spitting BLOOD on day one as 007, now that's giving 110% for the role. He's shaping up to match Connery (and Lazenby) in terms of physicality.

[Jim]

It also could have been from the finale in Vienna, with an interior set in Prague doubling for that.

Thought you said it was

Spoiler

Venice

?

[Pussfeller]

Hmmm, this seems fishy to me. I doubt they'd have Craig doing any highly dangerous stunts, and we know that they've been filming for a few weeks, so this probably isn't his first fight scene.

He may have been injured, but I doubt the damage was as bad as Drudge and the Sunday Mirror (hardly paragons of journalistic integrity) make it out to be.

We'll probably know soon enough.

[dinovelvet]

Hmmm, this seems fishy to me. I doubt they'd have Craig doing any highly dangerous stunts, and we know that they've been filming for a few weeks, so this probably isn't his first fight scene.

He may have been injured, but I doubt the damage was as bad as Drudge and the Sunday Mirror (hardly paragons of journalistic integrity) make it out to be.

We'll probably know soon enough.

Yes it is somewhat questionable, given that we just saw Craig at the press conference with no signs of injury or any speech problems whatsoever, and that this happened two weeks ago and nobody reported it until...The Mirror
I mean The Mirror still apparently think Thandie Newton is in this movie, so who knows what the hell's going on with them. For all we know, Craig might have caught a stray elbow in the face or something during one take, and the whole thing got blown out of proportion and got passed on, Chinese Whispers style, so by the time it got to the Mirror's desk, the story was that Craig was smashed in the face and blood and teeth went flying everywhere.

[Santa]

Sets a whole new standard of low for journalism.

[stamper]

"When it was announced Craig was to star in the remake of 1967 spoof Casino Royale, the actor was mocked after arriving at the Press conference surrounded by burly Marines wearing an unflattering life jacket."

this is one bad paragraph...