For the release of Quantum Of Solace on Blu Ray disc and DVD Pyroradio talk to Mathieu Amalric who play’s Dominic Greene a ruthless businessman and the major force within the mysterious ‘Quantum’ organization.

Daniel Craig returns as James Bond in this thrilling action packed adventure that starts shortly after Casino Royal Finishes 22^nd film In the James Bond franchise, Quantum Of Solace. The Blu ray disc and two-disc special edition DVD contains special features including behind the scenes featurettes, crew files, plus a music video for ‘Another Way To Die’ featuring Jack White and Alicia Keys

Pyroradio.com: How do you think Quantum Of Solace is different from other Bond films?

Mathieu Amalric: This has to deal with feelings. James Bond is almost a broken heart in this film and he has the good and the bad that are almost struggling inside himself. Sometimes we were trying to forget that we were doing a Bond film.

Pyroradio.com: What’s your take on Dominic Greene?

Mathieu Amalric: Marc [Forster] told me, “Your eyes are enough to be a villain.” So you try to find moments in your life where you’re a monster. And as there is in this film something about a relationship with a woman, that helped to find moments where you get crazy and that can explain then why you need power. You have to find intimate stuff, not just that I want to conquer. Power is not enough – it doesn’t help you to act. If you need the power, it’s because you have a problem.

Pyroradio.com: How did you find Marc Forster as a director?

Mathieu Amalric: Marc’s always trying to grab things that you’re not conscious of, doing two takes in a row which is a technique to make the actor unaware of what he’s doing. He wants things to happen in the moment on set. He just wanted my face – no scars, no metal jaw, no white cat, no accessories, nothing. I just had my face. With Marc, you always work on the moment.

Pyroradio.com: You said you tried to forget you were making a Bond film – how do you mean?

Mathieu Amalric: Sometimes it was nice to forget that it was a Bond film because it’s a way of avoiding clichés. If I know I’m the villain, I’m going to act like a villain so sometimes it’s better to not even think I’m a villain. And sometimes that’s what happens in our real life. We think we are nice guys and then one night your wife tells you that she never felt so alone and that you didn’t do this, you didn’t do that, you’re a bastard. And you didn’t even know it.

Pyroradio.com: Did you see him as a lunatic?

Mathieu Amalric: There’s something missing in his mind – he’s crazy. I tried to bring something crazy and we feel this craziness at the end with the physical fight. It’s just wild. We tried to do something very savage. You try and search things that you’re not allowed to do in real life. I love to do those things. And with Daniel, we had to be very, very precise.

Pyroradio.com: Were you worried about injuring Daniel, or him injuring you?

Mathieu Amalric: You have to abandon yourself completely. You can’t just take the piece of metal and slam with all your hate and stop just before. I had to hit him. So I had to see with Daniel, How much could I hit him? And he had to hit me too because you feel it.  So that’s where there’s a big intimacy and respect for the other actor. It was very precise.

Pyroradio.com: They don’t hold back, that’s for sure…

Mathieu Amalric: Usually there was something in the Bonds with James Bond and the villain usually have a sort of gentlemen relationship and they spend quite a lot of time together drinking tea. In this one, it’s not that at all because Bond has to find where is the danger coming from. And once he find that, he doesn’t even know what the guy’s looking for. We don’t have that many scenes together, we just hit, we just fight.

Quantum Of Solace; on DVD and Blu-Ray Monday 23 March

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