Daniel Craig shares how he landed ‘Star Wars’ role – Cinema/Showbiz,Hollywood

Los Angeles, Oct 3 : Hollywood star Daniel Craig has talked about how he landed himself a cameo in the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.The 53-year-old actor, whos making his final outing as 007 in No Time To Die, recalled how being on set for 2015s Spectre saw him take a shot and end up being cast by director J.

J.Abrams for role as a Stormtrooper, reports femalefirst.co.uk.Speaking at a BAFTA talk, Craig said: "I nearly gave up after that.What else am I gonna do?"I think we were doing Spectre, and all of our crew were on Star Wars.Ben Dixon, who was our seconding, a great lovely man Ben Dixon, he was on was seconding and I kind of went to - I had to go into Pinewood to, I dont know what I had to go to Pinewood for, to do some fitting or something.

"And I said to Ben, I said, Part for me? And he was like, Are you serious? I was like, Yeah.And he went, Ill go ask JJ.And he came back and said, Yeah."Craigs idea for his cameo was a "background" character, or a hidden role doing something clumsy in the background, but he ended up much more involved.

He said: "Thing was, I thought background Stormtrooper.I mean I wanted to do that guy that bumps his head in the original one, you know that person who drops his lightsaber or something.

"Then I was in a whole f****** scene, I was like OK! And we did the scene and then I just thought theyll loop me, theyll put another voice on it, you know, then I had to spend like three hours with JJ on a looping session like doing all the dialogues.Like really, you want me to do this? Get someone else to do this."The actor couldnt quite believe his luck.

He added: "And I kind of went and said no way was I in Star Wars.I mean, I thought I was great to kind of play around with that and everybody kind of started hating on me cause I sort of said I didnt like Star Wars and I just was like, Oh it was so stupid.

"But it was amazing and Im in the movie and Rian says when he saw the movie the first thing he did afterwards was he said, Who was that f***** Stormtrooper? He said he knew it was somebody, whatever.Its the way I walk, clearly .