It's time to meet Bond's protagonist in these early scenes, Sebastien Foucan, who plays a character called Mollaka.

Sebastien, from France, is not an actor. He's a free runner. That's what he says he does for a living but what he actually seems to do is bounce. I haven't done a DNA test on him but I'm pretty sure he is about a 75% rubber to 25% bone composition. That's the only explanation I can think of for his extraordinary ability to careen about the set like a cartoon character.

The first time I came across him was in the stunt team's workshops at Modrany. Chatting to the co-ordinator, Gary Powell, I glanced up into the rafters and saw a lithe figure swinging along hand over hand from the girders. As he dropped to the floor and commenced a series of backward flips, I realised that this must be our villain from the early scenes

So what is free-running? Well here's what a cast biography of him says

"Founder of Parkour, with his childhood friend David Belle, Sebastien Foucan developed the discipline (also known as Free-running) to combat negative energy. He has created and given names to many of the trademark Parkour moves, now used throughout the movement, which is becoming increasingly well-known and respected as an extreme sport world-wide. However, for Foucan, Parkour is not a sport, it is primarily an art form."

But that fails to give the complete impression. You might have seen him in commercials for Nike and Toyota or perhaps in Madonna's video for Confessions On The Dance Floor. Those have captured a bit more of his exploding energy and gravity defying leaps.

The adrenaline fuelled chase that will kick start the film began on a stage in the Czech Republic and then continues outside in the Bahamas. That's the magic of the movies, of course, going from temperatures of minus something on one continent to plus something very much warmer halfway across the world. And just to confuse matters, the chronological sequence is exterior first (the shanty town followed by the construction site sequences) and then into the already completed Embassy interiors we shot a long time ago in Prague. But although he's a novice to this scale of film-making, Sebastien seems to be taking it in his stride.

"I feel very good. I feel very happy to be here. Sometimes its strange because I don't realise it's so big, you know, but for me it's fantastic. I enjoy every second I'm here. I have sun, I have sea, I practice my discipline, it's a dream for me"

As he bounces across the landscape, he has one eye on Daniel coming up fast behind him.

"Daniel doesn't practice my discipline but he's athletic, he is very strong and it's not very difficult for him to do something. For me, my discipline is about adapting yourself and to be an actor, it's exactly the same thing - you just have to play something"

This is all impressive sounding stuff to someone like Yarborough whose discipline is limited to having only one doughnut when the caterers come round at tea-time. Talking of which……

Until next time
YARBOROUGH