‘I’d rather Die!’ Daniel Craig says he can’t imagine playing James Bond again

Daniel Craig has joked that he’d rather slit his wrists than reprise his role as James Bond for a fifth movie. ‘I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists,’ he said during an interview with London’s Time Out magazine.

‘We’re done. All I want to do is move on,’ the 47-year-old actor added.

He said he’s not talking with anyone about staying on in Her Majesty’s Secret Service but added the caveat that if he were to do another Bond movie, ‘it would only be for the money.’

He was paid $10.7 million for Skyfall, making him the highest-paid Bond actor ever, and the film was the first Bond movie to break the one billion dollar mark.

After the success of Skyfall it was reported he brokered a deal to be paid £31 million for his next two 007 films, including the soon-to-be-released Spectre, the 24th film in the franchise.

He confirmed to the Mail On Sunday’s Event magazine in September that there’s a deal in place that might require him to keep going.

‘I’m contracted for one more but I’m not going to make predictions,’ he told Event.

Craig’s fourth outing as 007 comes in Spectre, opening this fall, and directed once again by Skyfall’s Sam Mendes.

Craig’s comments in the Time Out interview published Wednesday aren’t the first time he’s dissed the role that catapulted him to international stardom and helped him bank millions of dollars.

When asked if he would continue as 007 by Esquire magazine in August, he said: ‘At this moment, no. I have a life and I’ve got to get on with it a bit. But we’ll see.’

‘I’m incredibly fortunate. But the day I can walk into a pub and someone goes, “Oh, there’s Daniel Craig” and then just leaves me alone, that’ll be great,’ he said.