James Bond Cast Skyfall File

Filming began. The cast gathered in the Scottish highlands. It was freezing. The crew called it “Bond’s Wake.” But when the camera rolled—when Craig’s grey-templed Bond stood in the mist, when Bardem told his story about the rat in the cage, when Dench recited poetry in a courtroom—the crew stopped shivering.

They weren’t making a spy thriller.

“Or the quill,” Barbara said.