Craig: We worked on this film with Jonathan that you can’t help but fall in love with; He is a brilliant person and a great artist. I think I said to Luca, “Would he… would he want to do anything?” Can I?” Because I thought I would like to wear his clothes. And Luca said, “Leave it with me.”

Guadagnino: I was the mediator.

Craig: An excellent matchmaker. Jonathan came up to me and I did a photoshoot, simple as that; I said, “You choose the clothes, I’ll wear whatever you want me to wear.” And my hair was long because I grew it for that. There was no question of “What look do I want this year?” It was just good timing that worked.

There’s the idea that the projects you chose after Bond – be it the Loewe ad, be it your extravagant Belvedere ad, be it Knife outbe it Strange – are somehow a reaction to your Bond years.

Craig: I think it’s in the eye of the beholder. I mean, I don’t think so.

But do you find it annoying that it comes up so often?

Craig: I mean, listen – no. I get it and fully understand it, but my brain, unlike every other brain, doesn’t work that way. I just see it as a nice opportunity to do something that’s… me older. I mean, it has more to do with that than anything else. I’m just older and I just don’t care.

I mean, I’ve had a really, really long career – a glorious, long career that I still enjoy, and I’d like to do a little bit longer. And all of these things affect where I am. Through Bond I got into incredible situations and had incredible experiences. But I had to learn to stand on my feet along the way because no one could teach me how to do it. And now that I’ve done it, I’m like, “Oh, that’s great.”

I can now move on from these experiences and just be a little less… You’re in a controlled state when you do Bond, you have to be. You have to be in this world somehow. But I’m not reacting to it now.

Luca, it was recently reported that you are doing one American Psycho Readjustment. Why do you want to make it?

Guadagnino: Any director, at this moment they are all developing projects. Sometimes you develop with Hollywood, sometimes you get material handed to you by a studio or a producer. And I think we all do two, three, four, five, six, seven developments…

Craig: You are doing. I can’t do that. Lucas works on so many things at the same time. It’s incredible what he does. So it’s one of many things.

Guadagnino: And Bret Easton Ellis is one of the greatest living American writers.

How do you manage to do so many things at the same time?

Craig: God knows. I think there are two of him.

Strange is now in cinemas.