London
(ANI):
English
actor
Daniel
Craig
was
scared
out
of
his
wits
when
the
ex-mayor
of
a
Chilean
town
drove
on
to
the
set
of
the
new
Bond
film
to
protest.
The
shooting,
which
was
in
the
town
of
Baquedano,
995
miles
north
of
Chile
capital
Santiago,
was
briefly
interrupted
by
Carlos
Lopez,
who
according
to
the
local
media,
objected
to
its
producers
using
his
community
to
film
scenes
ostensibly
set
in
Bolivia.
"I
put
my
vehicle
between
the
camera
and
the
actor,
who
has
nothing
in
common
with
the
secret
agent
007
as
he
fled
in
terror.
When
he
saw
me,
James
Bond
ran
off!" BBC
quoted
Lopez
as
saying.
However,
a
spokeswoman
for
the
film's
producers
is
sure
that
Craig
would
not
do
such
a
thing.
"It
sounds
most
unlike
Daniel.
I
would
have
thought
he
stayed
inside
the
car
while
security
dealt
with
the
situation,"
she
said.
"It
was
a
small
incident
that
took
no
more
than
five
minutes
to
clear
up,"
she
added.
The
spokeswoman
further
said
that
from
what
she
had
understood,
Lopez
was
nowhere
mayor
of
the
Sierra
Gorda
municipality,
and
that
he
had
been
suspended
five
months
ago.
Anne
Bennett,
Eon's
director
of
marketing,
said
Lopez
nearly
ran
over
a
local
policeman
on
April
1
as
he
drove
through
a
cordon
around
the
train
station
being
used
for
the
filming.
Lopez
was
seen
pulling
up
his
saloon
car
between
the
camera
and
a
vehicle,
in
which
Bond
actor
Daniel
Craig
and
co-star
Olga
Kurylenko
were
seated.
He
was
immediately
arrested
for
trespassing
and
detained
briefly
before
being
released.
The
mayor
in
his
own
defence
said
that
the
producers
had
failed
to
obtain
his
permission
to
shoot
in
the
municipality
of
Sierra
Gorda,
however
Bennett
denied
the
allegations
and
said
that
it
was
commonplace
for
scenes
set
in
one
country
to
be
shot
in
another.
The
new
Bond
movie
Quantum
of
Solace
has
been
filming
in
South
America
for
two
months
and
is
slated
for
release
in
the
UK
on
31
October.