Daniel Craig says shooting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was like being on a “nice carousel”. The actor portrays Mikael Blomkvist in the movie, which is based on a novel by Stieg Larsson. It has already been made into a Swedish picture, and Daniel loves the fact that there are so many interpretations of it.
“I didn't watch the other movie as I didn’t want to be influenced. Besides in the end everybody benefits from this. People who saw the other movie and know the books now watch this movie. Maybe they are going to read the books again afterwards and watch the Swedish movies again. That's a very nice carousel we're sitting on here,” he told wz-newsline.de.
There has been so much written about Stieg’s Millennium series of books that many thought Daniel was brave for taking on such an iconic character. He didn’t look at it that way, explaining he relished the chance to put his own stamp on the part.
“To be honest: no. I can't allow that to happen because I couldn't do my job otherwise,” he replied, when asked if he found it strange to participate in a movie which had already been made from a book. “I would just be thinking, 'What will the people think?' Maybe I'm a total idealist but when they offered me the role the first thing I thought was, 'Will they dilute the story?'... I saw the chance not to shoot for the biggest possible audience but for people who will think about it afterwards."