It’s been 14 years since Daniel Craig first took up his Licence to Kill as James Bond in Casino Royale. Since then, the Bond franchise had seen a through narrative across his 007 movies, rather than standalone adventures. And now as he returns for his fifth and final Bond movie in No Time To Di e, the 51-year-old has teased how everything will connect back to his first outing way back in 2006.

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Speaking with Top Gear Magazine, Daniel Craig said: “I always had in the back of my mind a story I wanted to tell.

“And . . . it kind of happened. We have a through-line.

“And this movie is about tying all those ends up, about reconnecting him to Casino, really, and that’s what we’ve managed to do.

“There’s a big emotional journey for him in it.”

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