British GQ - 04.2020

Dylan Jones, Editor

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EDITOR’S LETTER

Daniel Craig

Find out more about this month’s cover star

on YouTube and our social feeds @britishgq.

International Women’s Day

See how we covered the worldwide event.

Mother’s Day

Find the

perfect present

with our gifts-

she’ll-actually-

like guide.

GQ Action Replay

From Daisy Ridley to Richard Madden,

watch our post-match analysis video series

in which actors review one of their most

talked-about scenes.

>>^ Casino Royale in 2006, the ironic spy/hoodlum/gangster film

had become such a popular cliché, abused by everyone from Mike

Myers to Quentin Tarantino, that Bond’s salvation had to come in

the form of realism – which Craig delivered in spades (even when

he was playing cards). He convincingly lifted the movies above the

morass of tongue-in-cheek self-referential films that had toyed with

the genre, injecting some much-needed verisimilitude. Crucially, he

also knew how to carry a suit, something he does with aplomb in

No Time To Die. Because if you’re going to bow out, why wouldn’t

you want to do it in style?

This is also the second time we have organised a global GQ syn-

dication deal with a James Bond project. We first did this with

Quantum Of Solace in 2008 and this year we were asked by the

Bond production company, Eon – which looks after the fran-

chise with enormous care – if we could encourage some of our

international colleagues to follow suit with our exclusive coverage

of Daniel Craig’s final Bond outing. So we spoke to our US cousins,

as well as those from South Africa, Italy, Australia, Thailand, Spain,

Latin America, India, Germany and France, and once again we

have delivered a global Bond exclusive. And we sincerely hope

you enjoy it. G

NOVEMBER 2012

The 50th anniversary of James Bond and the release of Skyfall was celebrated

across six collectors’ covers, starring (clockwise from above) Daniel Craig,

George Lazenby, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan

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