“It was a scene where I tortured him and he’s stripped naked to the chair, which was kind of radical.
“There were a few times when Daniel Craig and I went a little far at the table discussing what the scene might be able to do,” Mikkelsen recently told Vulture about the nude torture scene. It was the Bond franchise at its most risqué and provocative, but it turns out the torture scene could have been even wilder had director Martin Campbell not shut down a brainstorming session between Craig and Mikkelsen.
The scene finds Craig’s Bond naked in a chair and Mikkelsen’s Le Chiffre using a whip to inflict pain on Bond’s testicles. Daniel Craig‘s tenure as James Bond started on a high with 2006’s “ Casino Royale,” which included a torture scene between Craig and co-star Mads Mikkelsen that instantly became one of the franchise’s most iconic Bond/villain confrontations.
