He is the best Bond to many whose initiation into Ian Fleming's series started with 2006's Casino Royale, and with a successor still unknown, Craig surely will remain the first face many think of when they order a cocktail shaken, not stirred. Casino Royale retooled Bond as less womanizing killing machine, more ruthless yet world-weary agent with an iced heart of gold you can't help but feel for - something of a running theme in Craig's Bond that hit its highest note in the Oscar-winning Skyfall, and ends now with his swan song No Time to Die. There was all that brouhaha about his blond hair, his height, and his non-Etonian background, but in the years since Daniel Craig was first cast as James Bond to lead the 007 franchise, no one can deny the actor's success in bringing ' emotional depth to the character' as he sought to.
