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Daniel Craig Is Done With Bond, Says His Chum Mark Strong

Actor Mark Strong appears to know something we don’t… well, at least not for sure.

The ‘Kingsman’ star seems pretty sure that he’ll never get to play alongside Daniel Craig’s 007 because the actor is now done with playing him.

Though there’s much speculation over whether 'Spectre’ would be Craig’s last outing as the British secret agent, there’s no official word as yet.

While speaking to Shortlist, and asked whether he’d be up for the Bond series, Strong said: “Do you know what, I’d have loved to have played the villain in a Bond movie while Daniel was doing it because he’s a pal and that would have been great.

“But I think he’s come to the end of his Bond time and so it’s probably never going to happen, but that would have always been great.”

Asked whether he might persuade Craig to make one more movie, Strong (pictured above at last night’s ‘Grimsby’ premiere) added: “Well, I will try, believe me. I will do my best. But there are powers at work greater than us who make all these decisions.

“He has been [wonderful] and he’s loved it. But I think he feels like he’s mined it. He’s done what he wants with it. That point has come.”

Craig now famously said that he’s rather 'slash his wrists’ than appear in another Bond movie, though those comments were made immediately after wrapping a lenghty, arduous and very much international shoot for 'Spectre’, rather implying that if he had to do it all again at that moment, he would really rather not.

That said it’s thought that he’s contracted to make another Bond movie, but whether its producers Eon would hold him to such obligation if his heart isn’t in it is another matter.

So far neither Craig nor Eon have commented on whether he’ll appear in the next Bond movie, which will be the somewhat historic 25th in the series.

But it emerged last week that Craig has recently signed up for the potentially long-running TV series ‘Purity’ currently at the centre of the bidding war in the US.

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