Sure, maybe Le Chiffre ditched the rope and started cutting a finger off with his knife or something. 'Cut him up somewhere?' Your mind could run wild with that one. That’s the framework you need to understand. We can’t go there.” We were lost in our indie world, right? You have to respect that. At a certain point, director Martin Campbell was just smiling and said, 'Boys, come back to the table. One idea was I actually cut him up somewhere, and he had to suffer with that for a while. We were discussing how to approach it, and we just went further out with something that was really brutal and insane. So, he says-the duo tried to bring an indie sensibility to the torture sequence: We’ve never seen Bond naked, and we’ve never seen him that fragile, and then obviously there are some undertones with the rope. At the time, Mikkelsen and Craig were both relative strangers to big-budget films. Mikkelsen revealed that the torture scene-the very same one where Bond yelps, 'Now the whole world will know that you died scratching my balls!'-almost went even further. In a new interview with Vulture, Mikkelsen talks about watching Rafael Nadal smack around tennis balls, his first moments of finding fame, his leading role in Hannibal, and of course, his time filming Casino Royale. Why Daniel Craig Returned For 'No Time To Die'.A Brief History of James Bond's 007 Designation.The Case for Regé-Jean Page to Play James Bond.

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