Ralph Fiennes Says Russians Don't Like the Daniel Craig Bond Movies

When Daniel Craig took over as James Bond, a lot of people were happy with the new direction the series was taking. 007 fans and critics alike enjoyed that the silliness was being ditched in favor of a more grounded take. Or so we thought. While folks in North America and the U.K. were mostly onboard with the change, Bond franchise actor Ralph Fiennes says one part of the world definitely wasn’t: Russia.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Fiennes said a friend of his in St. Petersburg was not pleased with the latest installment, Spectre. “It was categorical,” Fiennes said, adding that his friend told him, “I hated this! So serious! Please! Why? Where are the jokes?” The Telegraph article then continued, “Later, back in Moscow, another friend just shrugged when asked for feedback, and despairingly reminded him Bond was supposed to be ‘a show.’”

Now, here’s some news, and it may be good or bad, depending on what side of this argument you’re on. Fiennes said he thinks the next Bond installment, which is still unconfirmed at the moment, will be lighter in nature.

Fiennes offered, “I think if you’re the next director of Bond, you’re going to not want to go down the tone and argument of what Sam [Mendes] has put into the films. … So I would guess if you’re coming to do the next Bond, you’d want to take it somewhere radically different, I think.”

That being said, he also stressed that he doesn’t actually know anything about the next movie. Which, for the first time in most of our lives, makes us just like Ralph Fiennes. Feels good.

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