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But this is Bond, and she is a feminist. I'm not saying 'no' to the suggestion, much the opposite, I just couldn't see her wanting to be a Bond Girl.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5272599/Chris-Hemsworth-bears-resemblance-Brad-Pitt.html
That’s a broad statement. Learn what? Lazenby gave a fine performance, especially considering his in experience. Many here feel he would have grown nicely in the role. I would have liked to have seen what he would have done in DAF.
Hemsworth has all the physical attributes, he has matured greatly as an actor, showing considerable charm in the latest Thor. Most of all he is what an actor needs to play Bond, an alpha male.
So , didn’t I learn the first time? Sure, Aussies have great screen presence, never rule them out ;)
Well this is all subjective but Lazenby couldn’t act properly, he was wooden. He also wasn’t very handsome, I found him to be an odd looking man. Hemsworth is too big of a man to be bond, he’s more like a henchman. Also bond should be british
So I know he can do light hearted fare. What I have yet to see is if he can do dramatic scenes as well, without overacting or appearing affected. In that regard his work on Thor films to date hasn't impressed. So I will view the upcoming 12 Strong with some interest.
I would imagine that Babs will want an actor with some range to replace Craig.
Which lunatic asylum did you find them in?
Then it must be true!
Thank you for the very kind words! And thank you for your eminently sensible posts in this thread.
The debate on racial casting seems to have hit the point of diminishing returns, so I'll summarize my points one last before moving on.
I love Fleming but recognize that the films have to occasionally depart from or expand on their source material and need to keep up with changinging times and audiences (as that Den of Geek article makes clear). The series has sometimes strayed wildly from Fleming and into mindless excess and self-parody (MR, DAD, etc) but it usually circles back to Fleming's core version of the character.
Speaking as a pragmatic Fleming fan, I have no regard with supposed Fleming purists who are okay with the films straying from Fleming but suddenly decide Fleming's hypothetical (and never stated) opinion on a Bond actor's race must be respected. Since Fleming himself changed Bond's nationality after Connery was cast and beforehand was considering an American for the role, we know that he was flexible about Bond's background and the actor playing him. In 1962 a Bond actor would have to be white, since Britain itself was predominantly white. 2017 is a much different era and Britishness no longer means whiteness. And while must Bond remain British, male, and heterosexual onscreen because those his identity would change drastically if he wasn't, being non-white does not mean non-British. Anyone who thinks otherwise should go back to 1962. What a 109 year old Fleming would think today is of course impossible to state with certainty. But I think everyone agrees that he intended Bond as a British hero, and in 2017 a non-white actor as Bond would not violate that intention one bit.
Why? This thread is called who "could/should" play a Bond actor. There is no reason why Bond should be played by a non-white actor and there is no reason why he shouldn't, despite some of the flimsy logic given those uncomfortable with the idea of a non-white actor as Bond. If a British actor looks like he projects the right mix of suaveness, toughness, authority, and charm, then he deserves to be considered regardless of his race because he could play the role. That's all there is to it.
Even taking into account the overall drop in the size of the armed forces in recent years, the figures still represent an eight per cent fall in black and minority ethnic officers in the space of six years.
The proportion of officers in the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force who are from BAME backgrounds is now just 2.3 per cent – down from 2.5 per cent in 2009.
It is understood there was not a single BAME candidate among Royal Marine officers passing out last year – while just 20 black and 25 Asian officers serve in the Royal Navy, out of a total of around 7,000. Of the army’s 13,000 officers, only 100 are Asian and 60 are black. And of the RAF’s 8,000 officers, 45 are Asian and 30 black. Around 45 per cent of BAME officers are mixed race.
Bond is an Commander who will have served in the 1990's. Statistics say that the likelihood of him being Black is very low.
EDIT: and if cursory and superficial scrutiny of prospects offends some, then that's definitely a reason why this shouldn't happen yet. After all, being this character means taking the hits (many times unfairly) as well as the plaudits.
Wow. Must have been more of an action film and less of a comedy prior to Murphy's involvement, because Stallone is awful in Comedies (Stop or My Mum Will Shoot).
"Sylvester Stallone was originally considered for the part of Foley Stallone gave the script a dramatic rewrite and made it into a straight action film. In one of the previous drafts written for Stallone, the character of Billy Rosewood was called "Siddons" and was killed off half-way through the script during one of the action scenes. Stallone had renamed the lead character to Axel Cobretti, with the character of Michael Tandino being his brother and Jenny Summers playing his love interest. Stallone has said that his script for Beverly Hills Cop would have "looked like the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan on the beaches of Normandy. Believe it or not, the finale was me in a stolen Lamborghini playing chicken with an oncoming freight train being driven by the ultra-slimy bad guy." However, Stallone's ideas were deemed "too expensive" for Paramount to produce and Stallone ultimately pulled out two weeks before filming was to start. Two days later, the film's producers, Simpson and Bruckheimer, convinced Eddie Murphy to replace Stallone in the film, prompting more rewrites".................So basically a completely different fim.
EDIT: Just saw your updates to the post above.
I see.
Right, and this is why it applies regardless of race. How would it go over now if a re-boot of BHC was done and Axel was made a non-black character?