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Bardem: Its being a very beautiful and fun adventure. One has to enjoy it, one does it because of that. Its many things. First its a James Bond film. I am 43 years old and since I was very little I remember watching Dr. No, and Moonraker with my parents. I remember hallucinating with Jaws biting the cable of the cable car.
Then its a picture that celebrates 50 years of James Bond, its directed by Sam Mendes, yesterday I was on set with Albert Finney, with Judi Dench, with Daniel Craig.
Journalist: Im envying you more and more.
Bardem: Its cool, and the coolest thing and whats most important is the material. When I got it and saw the character. Immediately you forget a little that it is a James Bond film and you realize that it is a great film and thats what attracted me. I said man this gives you a lot of possibilities. Obviously its a James Bond film and it has everything you expect from a Bond film.
Journalist: Martinis, women, Aston Martin?
Bardem: (nodding his head agreeing) Obviously. But besides that there is a super-powerful story and a character with meat to put your teeth in and enjoy doing.
Journalist: I imagine that evidently very little can be said about this Silva. All we have seen is a photo where you are blond. What is this coincidence of strange hair styles and characters in the limit. Is this a strategy used by directors or a coincidence?
Bardem: No, its because Im so good that they have to give me these hair styles to remind me that Im bad. No, what happens is that I cant tell much about it but it has to do with the character . I dont know, there is also something that Sam, the director, told me a short while and he was right: James Bond films are midway between reality and fiction. Therefore is a very good and very fertile terrain to play the characters with a certain freedom. It has to do with a real situation and there has got to be seriousness playing it but its more open, it gives you more air so that you can work and imagine more. And that is very fun because youre not doing absolute fiction, its not a superhero picture, but its not a completely down-to-earth film. Its something in the middle thats very good and very fun for an actor.
Journalist: Well, weve talked about Jaws, and others that gave Bond a hard time. Im sure that Silva will do that to.
Bardem: That has been my decision, Im completely decided to give him a hard time and the truth is that I get to do it. On script, doing it in the set is a different thing. The character puts Bond into some curious and interesting difficulties and one has to do it, and give the ideal that you are the villain. Otherwise there is no point in doing it. You have to put the actor in a difficult situation, thats the objective. In that sense Sam is helping a lot, hes an amazing director. And Im delighted to be working with Daniel, hes a guy with balls, hes a really hard working guy, super-compromised with what hes doing. For him its stenuous, six months of shooting everyday, in addition with a lot of physical demand and the guy holds on super-compromised. Hes an actor who is doing some amazing scenes. As an actor I look at that and I say great, and like it. And then hes very much a clown, which I love, the moment they say cut. And hes a guy who brings a lot of humour and a lot of lightness to the thing because obviously these are very long days and and for him it must be, it is difficult. So its an amazing experience!
