Presumably, the Gods of Blogging demand I comment on this article that suggests Daniel Craig will appear nude in Casino Royale.
I don’t buy it. First of all: The Daily Mirror is the source. So…reliable? Not so much. Secondly, the Mirror article doesn’t actually say Craig will be nude, just that he’s willing to be. And since he’s been nude on-screen before (which pictures are peppering the ‘net), that’s not a stretch of the imagination.
It’s just not going to happen. Bond movies are PG-13. Sony won’t risk reducing the teen audience by putting an R rating on it. This is just a p.r. move (ill-considered, in my opinion) to make Craig seem edgier and more interesting after being plagued by one gaffe after another. It also raises interest in the carpet-beater scene, as the prurient wonder how much of that we’ll actually see.
Update: What we might see, as some clever posters at CBn have pointed out, is a suggestion of Craig’s nudity, from a distance or at a PG-13 angle, to lend credibility to the carpet-beater scene.
