Daniel Craig hates Austin Powers. Well, not hate him as so much that he despises him because he made his job so much harder to do.  Daniel does realize Austin was only a movie character, right?  Oh, wait, James Bond is a character too.

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Daniel talks about how his new role as James Bond has changed his life.  He also spills some secrets on what he would do with the movie to the Times Online:

I love the idea of putting Moneypenny in the film,” he says, to my surprise. “I’m dead keen to do it. And Q.” Moneypenny, to those few who may not have seen earlier Bond films, is the secretary who is always flirting with Bond, Q the Secret Service boffin who equips him with the latest spy gadgets. “But I work from the premise that there are millions and millions of people out there who never saw one of the earlier Bond movies. So they don’t understand the martini gag. Or the Moneypenny gag, which is a gag – it had ceased to be a character. So, let’s find out who she is. We can have fun doing that. And, don’t get me wrong, I’m up for a submarine base, as long as the gag works. The problem is that Austin Powers screwed everything up. He exploded the genre. Did I just say that? I did.”

I guess Mike Myers won’t be calling him to star in any comedy he writes any time soon.

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