Some fans have often complained that Bond star Daniel Craig was blond, short and not up to playing Ian Flemings tall, dark, dark and handsome hero.
Actress Gemma Arterton, the secret agents love interest in the new Bond movie, has told how producers had to give the 22-year-old star a lift when she put on her high heels.
Arterton, who is 5ft 7in, said: Daniel is 5ft 10in but when they put me in heels, I was taller than him and it didn’t look good on screen." "Daniel had to wear shoes with a lift in them and stacked heels for a few scenes, but he took it very well," Arterton was quoted as saying by Mail online of Britain.
Craig, 40, has been sensitive about his height since he won his debut Bond role in Casino Royale in 2005.
He refused to comment on his height, quipping to one interviewer: "Let’s just say I am somewhere between 5ft and 6ft." Brunette Arterton, beat 1,500 other hopefuls to be chosen as the Bond girl, landed the role as MI6 operative Agent Fields in the new movie just six months after graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
The Bond star is not alone in having to resort to stacked heels. Other well-known figures who have used them include 5ft 10in Mick Jagger, whose girlfriend is 6ft 4in; French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is 5ft 5in and whose wife Carla Bruni is 5ft 9in; and Tom Cruise, who is 2in shorter than his 5ft 9in wife Katie Holmes, a British tabloid said.