With “No Time to Die,” Daniel Craig ends his 15-year tenure as James Bond with a film that, for the first time in the franchise, offers a real sense of closure for an actor leaving the 007 role.
In the past, an actor’s time as Bond would end unceremoniously. Connery was done after “You Only Live Twice” and was replaced with George Lazenby for a one film with “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.”
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