"I realized we were dealing with something that was fun to create and also that will bring an opportunity to pay humble homage to the Bond classics with something more modern in the combination of creating somebody that above all is a human being rather than a larger than life character and who is broken person with a very specific goal to achieve, which is way easier to portray than a symbolic idea, which is what it was more or less in 'No Country For Old Men,'" Bardem explained. "A deity of violence and horrible fate itself was what Chigurh was, but there was no human being behind him. Here, there is a broken person. We wanted to create somebody that creates uncomfortable situations, rather than being somebody scary or threatening. Somebody who really creates a scenario of insecurity of something unexpected to happen for another person who he is dealing with."
One example of how Silva tries to accomplish this is a scene in which he flirts with Bond, who is tied to a chair.
"The main goal was to create this uncomfortableness. Within that, you can read anything you want or you wish," Bardem said, addressing buzz about his character's sexuality. "He's more into the thing of putting the other person in an uncomfortable situation where even James Bond himself doesn't know how to get out of it."
Suffice it to say, secret agent 007 handles the situation with his trademark calm and wit, as did Craig when he was asked at a separate press conference about the scene.
"Someone suggested that Silva may be gay," Craig said. "And I'm like, 'I think he'll [expletive] anything."
