Who should/could be a Bond actor?

Ludovico

007HallY wrote: »

DEKE_RIVERS wrote: »

Venutius wrote: »

An actor of Craig's calibre couldn't 'pretend'?

I think there's a lot of Connery's coolness in his performance. Fleming's Bond isn't really like that.

I think a lot of that’s on the page based on how the character has developed in films (the Bond of Fleming’s CR doesn’t act quite like the version Craig played, even if the latter’s an adaptation. The cinematic version is much more quippy and outwardly more relaxed).

Anyway, I can see where Craig was coming from when he said he simply approached Bond as any other character. I don’t get the sense he was studying the other Bond performances (which I can imagine a number of actors doing).

Ludovico wrote: »

MSL49 wrote: »

Was Craig screentests in 2005 clearly the best to compare to the other candidates?

Little I saw of the other auditions... yes. Boy some of them were terrible.

Worthington’s was rough. Wasn’t hugely impressed with Cavill’s but you could tell he was adapting his performance with each take. The other ones were fine but not quite right.

Those were just line readings though to whittle down first line candidates. They’re often varied anyway and there were probably tens of dozens of those with lesser knowns.

From what I read, they thought Cavill lacked gravitas, but they thought with a few years of experience he'd be a good candidate. I rewatched some of it and it's really Worthintgon who stands out as bad. Like a guy walking into a pub.