Daniel Craig Shuts Down TV Reporter Who Asks Him to Pout: "I Think You Need to Move On"

Spectre star refuses to put on his best duck face

By Francesca Bacardi Oct 23, 2015 1:04 PMTags
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Kim Kardashian did away with the duck face in pictures, and now Daniel Craig refuses to put his playful pout on display.

The Spectre star participated in a painfully awkward interview with Sarah Powell, a reporter for ITV's This Morning, and it didn't end well. Powell requested the celebrity show off his "Daniel Craig pout," but he wouldn't do it. Even though he explained that he didn't know what she was talking about—all while chuckling it off—she wouldn't let it go. Eventually he told her, "I think you need to move on."

Cue the crickets.

It didn't improve from there. Powell then told Craig that his character, James Bond, seemed more "modest" in the latest installment, referring to his lack of nudity.

"There's no swimwear. There's no tearing of the shirt off. What happened? Why haven't you got your kit off?" she asked.

Craig looked visibly uncomfortable throughout the interrogation, but still clarified that there's some nudity to be enjoyed in "the opening sequence" before adding, "It just didn't happen."

"Has James Bond gone shy?" she asked.

"He's going shy now," he responded.

Craig isn't the only actor to shut down reporters whose questions aren't up to snuff. Earlier this year Cara Delevingne got into an awkward back-and-forth with reporters from Good Day Sacramento who kept insisting that she was too tired for their show. Even though she tried to handle it in the best way possible, the reporters kept going after her.

"We'll let you go then, how about that?" they asked. "We'll let you go and take a nap and maybe have a Red Bull."

They also said she was "in a mood."

Robert Downey Jr. also got up and left during an interview when a reporter quizzed him about his "dark periods," which he believed had nothing to do with his superhero movie. Mila Kunis simply opted to hit back at a newspaper reporter whose line of questioning wasn't up to snuff.

Craig wasn't just over the interview with Powell; he's over 007 entirely. Watch the video above to find out more.