After being asked by host Josh Horowitz if there was “ever a real Bond conversation” involving Fassbender, the X-Men actor responded, “I met with Barbara Broccoli just you know through passing and I actually went in for an audition phase before Daniel [Craig] was cast, but I don’t think I was ever in the mix.”

Michael Fassbender championed Daniel Craig in a big way to be cast in the James Bond role he ultimately played for five films.

Any actor knows that the purpose of an audition is to land the role you’re angling for, but Michael Fassbender seems to have forgotten that cardinal rule when he met about playing James Bond. As Variety reports,