Daniel Craig shares how he landed 'Star Wars' role

Hollywood star Daniel Craig has talked about how he landed himself a cameo in the film Star Wars The Force AwakensThe 53yearold 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 JJ Abrams for role as a Stormtrooper reports femalefirstcoukSpeaking at a BAFTA talk Craig said I nearly gave up after that What else am I gonna doI 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 somethingAnd 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 YeahAlso Read No Time To Die Daniel Craig to get a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 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 involvedHe 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 somethingThen 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 thisThe actor couldnt quite believe his luckHe 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 stupidBut 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 clearlyAlso Read Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp I would be a really bad James BondThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliabilitsy and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever