20 Things You Didn’t Know About Casino Royale (2006)
4. "The Only Question Remains: Will You Yield In Time?"
The uncomfortable sequence in which Le Chiffre tries to obtain James Bond's winnings from the Casino Royale by stripping him naked, tying him to a chair, and torturing him is one of the defining moments in Ian Fleming’s novel.
As such, whilst it is an unusual and discomfiting scene for a Bond film, the producers insisted that it should be incorporated into the movie in order to remain true to the spirit of Fleming’s work and to the character of Double-0 Seven on his journey to becoming the polished agent of the earlier films.
When the sequence was shot, plate glass was placed under the bottomless chair that Daniel Craig was sat on to prevent him from being harmed during shooting. Nevertheless, in authentically portraying the increasingly desperate Le Chiffre, Mads Mikkelsen struck the glass with a knotted rope so hard that the protective covering cracked.
The crew immediately stopped filming the scene so that the glass could be checked and replaced.