Daniel Craig: Bond is a man with many, many challenges

James Bond? Yes, that's my name.

The atmosphere feels a little tightly wound as our group of journalists awaits Daniel Craig’s arrival for a round-table chat. It’s been a packed morning at London’s Corinthia Hotel and we are among the last to interview the James Bond star before the lunch break.

The setting is appropriate – the building was once the workplace for the majority of British Defence Intelligence staff from the 1960s to early 1990s, and was drawn into the old James Bond comic strips as the headquarters of MI6.