Michael Fassbender has revealed that he put Daniel Craig's name forward during his own audition for the role of James Bond. Craig was formally announced to be playing the latest 007 in October 2005, eventually going on to play the MI6 spy in five films - Casino Royale,

After being asked by host Josh Horowitz if there was “ever a real Bond conversation” involving Fassbender, the X-Men actor responded, “I met with Barbara Broccoli just, you know, through passing and I actually went in for an audition phase before Daniel [Craig] was cast, but I don’t think I was ever in the mix.”