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

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/judi-dench-reveals-daniel-craig-pushed-to-kill-off-m-in-skyfall/
- Published: 2026-11-03T19:00:48+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T10:40:31+00:00
- Original publisher: IGN
- Original article: https://www.ign.com/articles/judi-dench-daniel-craig-skyfall-m-death
- Topics: Business, Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- Dench says Craig suggested M should die in *Skyfall*.
- She played M in eight Bond films over 20 years.
- Late script rewrites made *Tomorrow Never Dies* her hardest Bond film.

## Summary

Dame Judi Dench says Daniel Craig proposed killing off her character, M, in *Skyfall* (2012). Her account offers a glimpse into how the decision was made and recalls the end of her 20-year run as Bond’s boss across eight films.

In an excerpt from her memoir, Dench recalled being told at a lunch with producer Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson and director Sam Mendes that M would die. She joked that she had asked for years to leave her desk, only to be shot, and said M was first sacked by Ralph Fiennes’s character. Dench also described *Tomorrow Never Dies* as her hardest Bond film to make, citing late rewrites, including a dozen pages delivered at 10pm before a 5am call.

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