The parkour guy that James Bond pursues in the foot chase scene at the beginning of the film is Sébastien Foucan, one of the inventors of Le Parkour.Also, Madagascar in the opening is the Bahamas. California Doubling: All scenes that take place in Montenegro and the United States (except the actual airport runways) are actually shot in the Czech Republic (that is located in a different climate zone than Montenegro and Florida).Moore in particular was reportedly very impressed with it. Approval of God: The five previous cinematic Bonds - Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan - all lent Craig their support.Acting for Two: In the French dub, Féodor Atkine voices both Dryden (the MI6 Double Agent Bond kills at the beginning) and Mendel (the Swiss banker who's in charge of the poker tournament gains).

This is in stark contrast to Mads Mikkelsen's Handsome Lech portrayal and good looks (the man made it to several 'sexiest man alive' polls and others declared him 'sexiest man in Denmark').

Le Chiffre in the novel is described as overweight and unattractive.

Daniel Craig got a lot of controversy when he was cast as James Bond because he looked very different from the past Bonds, starting with him being blonde (and him not dying his hair black for the role), to the point of being derisively referred to as 'James Blond.' This all went away, of course, once the film came out, and he got rave reviews.

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