Actor Daniel Craig – star of the upcoming “Casino Royale” - has revealed to reporters that he was the one who inadvertently told Pierce Brosnan he was being dumped as James Bond after bumping into the clueless Irishman at the BAFTAs last year and asking him if he should accept the offer to carry on as his successor.

From Mirror.co.uk:

Craig, 38, revealed: “I said, ‘Look this is a possibility, what do you think?’ I don’t know if I gave him much choice, but he said, ‘Go for it.’ He didn’t hit me.

“I don’t know if anyone was underhanded with Pierce but I know I wasn’t.” Shortly after they spoke at the Baftas in February last year, studio bosses dropped Brosnan and Craig was announced as his successor.

So let me get this straight: the coveted role of cinema’s most suave and daring super spy eventually came down between a man who can’t keep a secret and another who couldn’t buy a clue. That’s like walking into an orphanage and having the nun tell you that you can adopt either the seventeen-year-old flashing all the eight-year-olds in the furnace room or the blind kid in the corner trying to look cool with his thirty-year-old hand me down “Grand Funk Railroad” t-shirt on. It’s not so much a choice as it is an excuse to put Grandpa’s old .45 against your temple and squeeze.

Special Note to Pierce Brosnan: Don’t be hating Danny Craig too much for taking that multi-million dollar payday away from you. After all, you still have Mrs. Doubtfire 2 and a salary that should be more than enough to hire two guys to seduce the new James Bond on tape so you can get your old job back.

No, Pierce, thank me with flowers.