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Who should/could be a Bond actor?

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  • buddyoldchapbuddyoldchap Formerly known as JeremyBondon
    Posts: 341
    Oh lawd, the sh*tshow has started. This won't end well.

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/jeff-bezos-reportedly-obsessed-casting-144250978.html
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    Tabloid fodder … I hope!
  • 007HallY007HallY
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    Venutius wrote: »
    Afraid so. Such a shame. Band of Brothers from that first series was as good as any of the film sequels. There were all kinds of press rumours over the years: that Cubby had spotted Adrian Paul in Last Rites and had his eye on him as a future Bond, that he'd auditioned for GE, that he was Cubby's favourite to replace Brosnan, etc, but a couple of years back Adrian himself said that the nearest he got was when Barbara Broccoli asked him in for a meeting and it 'didn't go very well' because he said that he only liked the Connery films! Oops.

    Bit of an aside, but a benefit of having new producers who haven’t been previously connected to the series might be that it’s easier to say what you think hasn’t been as great with the series previously/what you’d do differently without offending them or their family. That said I know Craig was quite open about what he saw as the flaws of Brosnan’s era (I believe he even said anything from TND onwards was a bit s*it which I don’t think is fair, but I might not be remembering it exactly). Maybe it just shows this guy wasn’t meant to be, and it’s by choice!
    Ryan wrote: »
    MSL49 wrote: »
    From those screentests my list would have gone:

    1. Friend.

    2. Cavill.

    3. Starr.

    4. Worthington.

    I agree with this. I might even put Starr above Cavill, who I thought was just okay. Friend was a real surprise to me. I would have never considered him in my head as a Bond, but the screen test was excellent in my view. The best of the four.

    Haven’t watched the clips in a while, but I think a plus of Cavill was that he adapted his performance in different takes (no idea if he got a bit of direction, but I remember him doing more than one). I really don’t think he nailed it at all (he’s a bit wooden), but I can see how they would have brought him further compared to Friend and Starr (who, incidentally, are very good actors and did relatively well during those readings, but weren’t quite right). Worthington I think had been hitting the Fosters the previous night and his agent roped him into the audition 😂 Not easy though, and whatever I think of him he’s clearly improved as an actor. I know he’d spoken openly about this audition before the video was released and knew it hadn’t gone well. We’ve all had those moments in whatever our careers are. Think he even says at the end ‘no, I’m out’.
  • MSL49MSL49 Finland
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    Ryan wrote: »
    MSL49 wrote: »
    From those screentests my list would have gone:

    1. Friend.

    2. Cavill.

    3. Starr.

    4. Worthington.

    I agree with this. I might even put Starr above Cavill, who I thought was just okay. Friend was a real surprise to me. I would have never considered him in my head as a Bond, but the screen test was excellent in my view. The best of the four.
    Yes is tight between Cavill and Starr who also looked the part and made no mistakes in his screentest. I think even back then Friend was a good enough actor to play role like young Bond in Casino Royale and not a prime Bond like Pierce in Goldeneye. Tell me didnt Worthington even knew his lines or i am wrong?

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