Daniel Craig says he had no dance skills at all before starring in viral vodka advert
- Former James Bond star Daniel Craig recently starred in a viral advert for Belvedere Vodka
- The actor said on Monday that he couldn't dance before working on the project.
It's been well over a year since Daniel Craig left James Bond behind with his final outing as 007 in "No Time To Die," but the star has wasted no time focusing on other projects, like Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion," and a surprising advert for Belvedere Vodka.
The video shows Craig dancing through the streets of London and strutting his way through a fancy hotel, and it quickly garnered plenty of attention online. Helmed by "Thor" director Taika Waititi, the eccentric advert shows a completely different side to the star.
But appearing on "The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert" Monday, Craig explained that he had no dance skills whatsoever in the run-up to the surprising video.
When asked by Colbert about his dance background, Craig said: "I have nil. None at all."
To be fair, the Bond films call for more punching than dancing, and before that the actor also appeared in a number of other action thrillers like "Layer Cake," "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," and "Munich."
Craig went on to say that he worked with Waititi and a talented choreographer to learn the dance.
He added: "Taika said, 'Can you dance?' and I said 'Mm, not really,' so we just got one of the best choreographers around, a guy called JaQuel Knight, who just basically loosened me up. Because I can't count."
Craig said that Knight found a way of getting him to move in time with the music by shouting at him during filming.
"Well, it's quite important in dancing sometimes to be able to count, to know when to come in, and to start like that. He just shouted at me: 'Go! Loosen up! Let me see those hips!' and that was it basically."
The choreographer's straightforward approach clearly worked well, because the director's cut of the video racked up 2.7 million views within its first few days of release.