"A ritual of the franchise is that all potential Bonds are asked to play the same scene, a moment in From Russia With Love, in which the spy returns to his hotel room to find Tatiana, a Russian agent, waiting for him naked in bed. Craig hated the rigmarole, the sense of following tradition. “I can’t believe my own arrogance, really,” he said. But he studied for the part. He went back to Fleming’s novels and found a character quite distinct from the unruffled screen persona of the previous 30 years. The Bond of the books was someone Craig could relate to: cold, messed up, human. “He is really fucking dark,” he said. In the novel Moonraker (1955), Bond tips a load of speed into his Champagne. “I think it’s more interesting,” Craig told me. “I know we can’t have him having amphetamine and speed and doing all these things. But inside, I know I’m doing that. And I wanted to inform the part and say that’s what he is. He’s kind of a fuckup. Because this job would fuck you up.”"