A certain suave superspy may be speaking with a lisp after taking a beating both literally and figuratively this week. Actor Daniel Craig, who will replace Pierce Brosnan as the title character in the next James Bond film, “Casino Royale,” reportedly had two of his teeth knocked out while filming his very first fight scene.
The accident occurred on the heels of increasingly vocal (though surprisingly tardy) objections to Craig’s casting in the famous role. Hardcore Bond fans with too much time on their hands have developed a site called Craignotbond.com, in which they threaten to boycott the film upon release, refer to Craig as “short, blond, and odd-looking,” and compare his appearance to those of Frankie Muniz, Cosmo Kramer, and vampire Nosferatu.
Informed of the on-set mishap–which was serious enough to require Craig’s personal dentist to be flown in from London–the Bondies replied that Pierce Brosnan’s teeth would have withstood a punch TWICE as hard, and that Sean Connery’s dentist can beat up Daniel Craig’s dentist any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
