No flashbacks for Daniel Craig in ageing actor role

Daniel Craig took a break from filming his second Bond film Quantum of Solace to attend Sunday’s world premiere of his latest film, Flashbacks of a Fool. The low-budget British film, which also stars Keeley Hawes, Helen McRory and Harry Eden, tells the story of a washed-up Hollywood actor who tries to come to terms with his troubled past. The film's flashbacks centre on the actor's teenage years in an English seaside town, set in the era of Seventies glam rock.

Flashbacks of a Fool represents a return to independent filmmaking for Craig, who is the executive producer. It is directed by the award-winning music video director Baillie Walsh, who Craig met on the set of John Maybury's 1998 Francis Bacon biopic, Love is the Devil.

Craig (pictured above with girlfriend Satsuki Mitchell), whose first first outing as James Bond in Casino Royale was a critical success, says a positive side to his new-found fame is that he now has the clout to get films like Flashbacks made. "If I can be responsible, even slightly, for getting movies like this off the ground - movies I can be proud of like this one... then I am going to get a huge amount of enjoyment out of it."

Despite its low budget, the film opens with a sequence that would make any Bond fan feel at home: a steamy sex scene in which a naked Craig has a threesome with two Swedish blondes.