Dalton warns Craig about Bond

Former James Bond star Timothy Dalton has warned current 007 Daniel Craig that he faces "overwhelming attention" as the world's most famous secret agent.

The 63-year-old actor, who played Bond in 1987's The Living Daylights and 1989's Licence To Kill, predicts that Craig will be bombarded with questions from "blathering idiots".

Dalton said of Craig: "I shouldn't laugh. But he's going to get all kinds of s**t. The attention with Bond is huge - overwhelming.

"I was still able to walk down the street and go to the pub, but there are awful moments like when you're waiting for a plane and a bunch of people decide to descend on you. They become blathering idiots when they ask you about Bond.

"It's as if you came out of a zoo. You've got to talk about the body, the workout, the Aston Martin, the girls. It's a weird thing. People were cross that I didn't really drive an Aston Martin or a sports car."