Daniel Craig said the reason James Bond movies got serious and dark was because of Austin Powers movies“We had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers f*cked us.”“I am a huge fan, but he made it impossible to do the gags."

When Daniel Craig was cast as James Bond in 2005, backlash was instant. Critics mocked his 5'10" height, blonde hair and looks, and protest sites like “Craig-Not-Bond-dotcom.”Fans even mocked him as “James Bland.”After Casino Royale released, the criticism quickly collapsed.

Fans hated Daniel Craig as James Bond so much they built a website to stop him and begged people to boycott his first movie. A newspaper even hunted down a regular guy named James Bland, just to get him to say Craig would be the worst 007 ever.This was 2005, a full year before the movie even came out. And the complaints were pretty petty. His hair was blond and his eyes were blue, which somehow felt wrong for Bond. He stood 5 foot 11, a couple inches shorter than the men who played Bond before h