He was 22 years old when Daniel Craig was already 37 and better embodied the mature and brutal direction that the saga wanted to take. The most obvious comes from the fact that the actor, then noticed in the Superman costume, was too young for the role.
In an interview with British media Daily Express, the New Zealand director gave, almost 17 years after the film’s release, the reasons which pushed the producers of the franchise to choose Daniel Craig rather than Henry Cavill in the role of Her Majesty’s spy. Really not far, if we are to believe Martin Campbell, the director of Goldeneye And Casino Royale. In 2005, Henry Cavill came close to becoming James Bond.
