Michael Fassbender Suggested Daniel Craig For James Bond Role During ‘Casino Royale’ Audition & Why Regé-Jean Page Would Be “Fantastic”

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Michael Fassbender championed Daniel Craig in a big way to be cast in the James Bond role he ultimately played for five films.

In a new interview, Fassbender revealed he auditioned for the 007 role but ultimately suggested producer cast Craig. “I met with Barbara Broccoli just you know through passing and I actually went in to an audition phase before Daniel [Craig] was cast, but I don’t think I was ever in the mix,” Fassbender said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “But I remember going into that room and meeting with her and [Michael G.] Wilson and I think I was like, ‘Daniel Craig is…’ I don’t know why I was promoting him.

I should have been promoting myself.” Fassbender had noted he was “terrible at auditions,” admitting he had not done well in an audition for Mad Max: Fury Road when he arrived live to the meeting. “Obviously, Daniel did a fantastic job and went on to be, I think, the most successful Bond in history.

But that was it really, there was never a conversation after that,” he added. Fassbender was one of several actors auditioning for the James Bond role for 2006’s Casino Royale.