Behind every superstar Hollywood A-lister like Daniel Craig is a long history of embarrassing foot ointment commercials and bit parts in soap operas. We all have to start somewhere, and for practically everyone bar the Harry Potter cast, that somewhere is at the bottom of the heap.
When you first break into the movie industry, it’s very rarely as a main starring role. More often it’s the lifeless corpse being peed on by the main character’s wacky hobo sidekick or something. Even to get to that stage you have to be ‘innocent bystander #17’ in an episode of Midsomer Murders.