Caterina Murino: I was petrified of Daniel Craig

Bond girl was intimidated by the smouldering actor

Saturday, 18 November 2006

Caterino Murino says she was terrified of acting alongside Daniel Craig in Casino Royale.

The sexy actress, 29 - who plays Bond girl Solange in the new movie - admits she was frightened she'd show herself up in front of the new 007.

She says: 'I was afraid of making a fool of myself with such a great actor. I was very, very afraid.'

But it wasn't only Daniel that made her nervous. Caterino, who was a Miss Italy finalist, was almost as frightened of riding horses in the film.

She tells Stella magazine: 'Only two months before, I had been thrown from a galloping horse and broken a bone in my back.

'Afterwards I swore to myself that I would never go anywhere near a horse again.

'Then I read the Casino Royale script and almost the first words were: "Solange is riding a horse along the beach", and I thought, "No I can't possibly do this.'"

But the film's producer Barbara Broccoli took Caterina to see a horse trainer who managed to cure her of her phobia.