Daniel Craig is keen to stress that while his Bond has been following something of a character arc over the last few films, he will still be the same old badass we’ve come to know and love.

“I haven’t changed his character,” he told us when we visited Pinewood earlier in the year. “He’s not in drag, he’s not doing anything that’s going to surprise people completely... but he has a great story.”

Craig has spoken about how the strength of the script is of paramount importance to his third Bond outing, revealing that the writer’s strike very nearly turned Quantum Of Solace into a total flop.

“On Quantum, we were fucked,” he told Time Out last year. “We had the bare bones of a script and then there was a writers’ strike and there was nothing we could do. We couldn’t employ a writer to finish it. I say to myself, “Never again”, but who knows? There was me trying to rewrite scenes – and a writer I am not.”

However, this time out, he’s feeling far more confident. “Through a lot of hard work I think we’ve kind of got together a script that has a really strong bed rock of a story and something for all the characters – of which there are a lot in this movie – to sort of experience.  There are very personal stories in it and hopefully the audience will get affected by them and moved by them.”