Director Danny Boyle has revealed that the Queen of England requested a picture with James Bond , Daniel Craig, after their Olympics skit, a piece that he helped to create.
Boyle organised the opening to London’s 2012 Olympics , and stated that the Monarch only agreed to the position because it was informal, and also because she wanted her staff to have a day with the movie star.
Daniel Craig and the Queen acted alongside each other in a scene which saw the duo meet at Buckingham Palace before jumping out of a helicopter that was over the Olympic Stadium.
Boyle stated, “She knew the jubilee, obviously in the same year, was gonna be very formal. And you have an instinct when you perform in public. You just have instincts. And I’m sure that was part of the instinct, ‘Let’s change it, make it different’.”
The Trainspotting director added, “I think she also must have known, because I was involved, that they were going to make it like a People’s Games … so there was a chance to take a risk with it.”
Boyle, who was speaking to the Radio Times, noted, “She wanted her staff to have a day out with a movie star. And so we did. Daniel Craig came and he’s a movie star! He’s James Bond! Everybody can get their picture taken.”
When asked whether the Queen joined in, Boyle exclaimed, “Absolutely! Yeah. But she was very, very keen and insistent that her staff did as weel. I liked that about her very much. You though, ‘Yeah, that’s decent, looking after them like that’. And we had a lovely afternoon filming with the two of them’.”
It was also revealed that Boyle started to worry immensely just 10 minutes before the opening ceremony when it started to rain. However the down pour soon ceased and the event was a resounding success.
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