When Bond fans see Daniel Craig emerge from the ocean wearing only teeny blue swimming trunks, it immediately makes them think of Ursula Andress emerging from the sea in her white bikini in Dr. No. The scene in Casino Royale was used for all sorts of press releases and helped cement Daniel Craig as a worldwide sex symbol. However, according to a new interview with The South Bank Show, the homage was accidental.

Daniel Craig in his iconic blue bathing suit

“It was actually by accident,” he said. “Where we filmed, off the Bahamas, it’s just one of those places where there is a sand shelf and the sand shelf happens to be three feet deep. Because the idea was, I was supposed to swim in and sort of float off, but I swim in and stand up. And it was just one of those things.”

Craig said he realised almost immediately that it would be compared to the Andress moment.

“It was going through my mind… as I did it, I went, ‘Oh f***.’ But I didn’t realise the repercussions of it,” he said, adding with a laugh: “I had no idea I would be haunted by it for the rest of my life.”

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