The Best Villains - the Daniel Craig era

Really, double-O seven?

Casino Royale, new era of James Bond, but the villains are quite traditional in many respects, which is quite unusual for the films that came after it.

We get an early scene of Obanno and Le Chiffre, don't we? And Mr.

White.

So they're the three villains we're gonna talk about associated with this film.

There's no Bond of, of course, in that scene.

That's the point I was making.

It's quite good to get to know them before we know the full plot.

So yes, Obanno, John, secondary villain.

Excellent.

I think, um, this is nothing to do with plot of Bond or anything of the sort.

Uh, this is a political kind of villain who is there to basically serve the purpose that Spectre, Quantum, whatever the organization is, will supply, support, finance whatever is needed in world terrorism.

He is based in...

We see him in an African country, which is always a positive.

And then I do like how, you know, we, all we see really is him in his country and then at the Casino Royale hot- at the hotel, just wanting his money back from Le Chiffre, and doing it in the most brutal way possible, thinking that his wife's, that Le Chiffre's missus' arm is gonna be, uh, severed.

I think he does his job perfectly well, and I think I put it on the best fights episode, that I think his fight with James Bond on the staircase is my favorite fight in the Daniel Craig era as well.

This is a classic case of an actor making the most of his scenes, for me.

I think he's a really, really good villain.

Yeah, no, I, I totally agree.

I think it's interesting.

I think it's interesting and good that, uh, in this film you've not just got one character that's the villain.

You know, you've got the, the villain, the main villain as such, has his own villain.

[laughs] You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Has, there's other protagonists in there, and then there's that conflict, and the fact that, that Le Chiffre has this conflict with Obanno leads to the card game that obviously Bond then gets involved in.