{"id":16566,"date":"2017-05-19T16:49:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=16566"},"modified":"2017-05-31T06:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T05:50:28","slug":"chris-cornell-on-casino-royale-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2017\/05\/19\/chris-cornell-on-casino-royale-james-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Chris Cornell on Casino Royale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the sad news of his death yesterday aged 52, I was reminded of an interview I did in 2006 with the late <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soundgarden\">Soundgarden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Audioslave\">Audioslave<\/a> singer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Cornell\"><strong>Chris Cornell<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was chosen to perform singing\u00a0duties on that year&#8217;s Bond film, <strong>Casino Royale<\/strong>, which also saw a new actor cast as the iconic spy.<\/p>\n<p>You could not wish to meet a nicer and more urbane rock star and my initial scepticism about a former grunge singer performing duties on a Bond film were immediately wiped away.<\/p>\n<p>The subsequent doubts about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casino_Royale_(2006_film)\">the 007 reboot<\/a> (a lot was riding on it) were wiped away as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Craig\">Daniel Craig<\/a> triumphed as the British secret agent and the film garnered rave reviews and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=jamesbond21.htm\">a massive worldwide gross of $599m<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/323406462&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casino_Royale_(2006_film)\">Find out more about Casino Royale (2006)<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-39960066\">BBC News on Chris Cornell&#8217;s death, aged 52<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview from 2006 with the late singer Chris Cornell about his song for Casino Royale, &#8216;You Know My Name&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2707,19],"tags":[2926,2925,138,317,2927],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16566"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16619,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16566\/revisions\/16619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}