Judi Dench Reveals Daniel Craig Pushed to Kill Off M in Skyfall

Dame Judi Dench, who portrayed 007’s boss M in eight James Bond films over 20 years, claims that Daniel Craig was responsible for having her character die in 2012’s Skyfall.

Variety published an excerpt from Dench’s new memoir, Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It?, wherein the Oscar winner recalled how she found out that M was going to be killed off.

“I was taken to the Wolseley restaurant by Barbara, Michael and Sam [Mendes, the director] – I don’t think Daniel Craig was there – and they outlined the plot and told me they were going to bump me off. My own fault, I suppose,” Dench said, in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek manner. “Ever since GoldenEye, when the entire film unit went off to Monte Carlo and St. Petersburg and I only had three days in Watford, I’d been begging them to let me out from behind my desk. …