Daniel Craig on the impact of playing Bond and why it caused five-year wait

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Daniel Craig has said that his feeling “physically really low” was partly responsible for the long wait for the new James Bond film.

The actor, who returns for his fifth and final outing as the spy in No Time To Die, said that he struggled with the physicality of preparing for the films, and that he also suffered from anxiety over the role.

Craig told GQ magazine: “I was never going to do one again. “I was like, ‘Is this work really genuinely worth this, to go through this, this whole thing?’ And I didn’t feel… I felt physically really low. “So the prospect of doing another movie was just, like, off the cards. “And that’s why it has been five years.” His last turn as Bond was in 2015’s Spectre, which at the time was reported to be his final