Vehicle supervisor Chris Corbould stated that the Rome car chase allowed no room for error: "The stunt drivers were driving around Rome at one hundred miles (one hundred sixty kilometers) per hour, so absolutely everything had to be perfect as far as their performance was concerned. Though the audience only ever sees two cars on-screen, the second unit used a total of eight Aston Martins, and seven Jaguars to shoot the chase. There was a lot of toing and froing in Rome." In the end, the production was able to shut down key portions of the city, including a section alongside the Tiber, looking towards St. It was a constant process to find the right location to fit the stunts. A lot of the time when we asked for permission, we would get a yes, but some of the time we'd get a no, so we would have to try and find other roads. The logistics of filming the car chase in Rome, Italy were difficult to marshal, according to stunt coordinator Gary Powell, who said: "In Rome, we saw a load of roads we liked, and sometimes the road is specific to a stunt, because it had a feature which would be really nice to jump. Give him another year off here, and he'll be ready to rock and roll for sure." By the time you finish making a Bond movie, you don't want to hear the name, see the name, or have anything to do with it, because you just want to go to ground. I think the guy was just fairly banjaxed by playing it. Just get a tighter story, and he'll have another classic. He's a mighty warrior, and I think he found a great sense of himself in this one, with the one-liners and a nice playfulness there. Am I in a Bond movie? Not in a Bond movie? But Daniel, in the fourth go-round, has ownership of it. The story was kind of weak, it could have been condensed. Brosnan said: "I was looking forward to it enormously.
Pierce Brosnan, who played James Bond in four movies released from 1995 to 2002, commented on this movie in November 2015, in an interview with "HitFlix". Pill laughed, adding: "That's a lot of radios to hand out and coordinate on a night, but it ran extremely smooth each time." We also worked very closely with the House of Commons, County Hall, and The London Eye to keep various lights on or off, or to change the color of their lights for each night shoot." Each night shoot involved a location team of nearly 200 personnel that included Marshals, security, traffic management, and police officers. We also lit the river from ten rooftops along the bank of the Thames, from Vauxhall Bridge to Hungerford Bridge, working with Lambeth Palace, Tate Britain, and the Royal Parks to gain permission. These lights then remained in position for five weeks. We lit under each arch of Vauxhall, Lambeth, and Westminster Bridge, seventeen arches in total. This involved several weeks of preparation. Supervising locations manager Emma Pill said: "The biggest challenge, however, was to light the river at night. In order to complete the London scenes involving low-flying helicopters, the production had to send out 11,000 letters to residents and businesses that fell within the fly zone.