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Who am I talking about? Take your pick.
It's the nature of the game.
That hairline, though :) Super strange. But yes, count me in as intrigued as well.
Women of a certain class I'm sure. Craig looks hardly sophisticated. A blunt instrument, indeed.
He looks like a poor man's James Bond. Is that his audition?
Haven't seen the show, but this looks pretty silly.
There ya go, buddy! Not so hard, is it, lol!
It's a sweeping statement. I suppose my educated wife is of a certain class-- as is my Mum and any other fine ladies in my life. I'm not calling them Bond die-hards, but they certainly paid more attention to Bond once the man rose out of the ocean in CR.
Who cares about GQ? I am voicing my and many other people their opinion, that is all. Craig looks particularly short in his suit, because he is quite short and has the build of a boxer, hence he could easily play a stocky Russian bouncer or preferably a KGB agent. Come to think of it, he could have been THE coolest henchman Bond has ever faced. Some nigh indestructible Russian super agent.
The biggest issue is his voice. Except for the asthmatic Brosnan, they have all had great voices previously. When I say great, I mean manly, which I think is better suited to the cinematic Bond.
Notably Turner looks like a boy here, and Carmichael looks like a man.
While not as chiseled as Craig, both Connery and Lazenby were physically imposing men; this added to their appeal . As the saying goes “women wanted to be with them, men wanted to be them”
While magnetism is not exclusively linked to physicality, I believe Dalton would have joined the likes of Connery and Lazenby had he been more physically imposing, not “jacked” or “ripped” , just 10 to even 20 more, quality pounds.
Yeah, Remember Bond fans said something similar about Craig not looking the part, until he was seen in full 007-Mode in that Stylish Black & White Sequence from CR....we might be amazed to see how transformed Callum would look as Bond, from his very first scene if chosen.
@talos7 -- we both know each other as health nuts, and I agree that Dalton seriously needed to gain some lean mass. It was remarkable how slight he was when he took his shirt off.
I just found that he was quite uptight, too uptight, to have that raw sex appeal. That when he came into the room, and his hands are balled into fists, he didn't have that "thing". Granted, even with the hairstyle in LTK, when he marched into the casino and gave it a sweep of his eyes, he looked deadly.
But I think he just misses out on the sex appeal; gaining lean mass would have certainly brought him closer, but not over the line. Relaxing and being confident in his every breath? That would have been nice-- IMO.
I'm sure Vogue would approve haha, "Emma’s Callum Turner Is Britain’s New Leading Man"
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/callum-turner-emma
It's like they say about pornography vs art: I know it when I see it.
Wow.
You must have better taste in men I guess.
I quite fancied watching that but it’s one of those pay-extra-to-watch-me shows. He looks familiar; could be a contender, sure, good suggestion.
Yes I agree, I think he misses the confidence, swagger, self-assuredness Bond needs. Craig showed that you can have that as well as being fallible and human, and I think audiences found that very appealing. Whether that translates into ‘sexy’ I’m not best-placed to say, but I can imagine why Craig has been a bigger hit than Dalton was.
I guess it’s back to the whole thing where Terence Young (was it?) watched Connery striding down the street after his audition and said he ‘walked like a panther’. I don’t think that’s something you could ever say of Dalton.
Cool....this guy really looks like James Bond, with every view.
I agree, I am a big Dalton fan, as Bond, and as an actor in general, but he doesn’t quite have the relaxed masculinity of a Connery or , outside of Bond, an Eastwood.
That's probably also due to Dalts being a 'serious' type of actor and Connery indeed more relaxed, cracking jokes and smiles while he's at it. Connery scores extremely high on the charisma index. Both Dalts and Craig aren't in the same league.
Boyish looks. Doesn't suit short hair. Eddie Redmayne has a better chance...
Exactly, too much showing off doesn't exactly makes someone sexually appealing. For example James bond series barely had nudity but despite that actor's delivered some really great sex scenes. Of all the actor's the most popular one amongst the ladies is Pierce brosnan, just go to any of his videos and see many Ladies bother to leave comment, and then go to other actor's, it's not really a great evidence but it does tell us something.
That's because Craig's films have been really successful not because of sexual appeal. It's like saying that an actor's potential can be only seen if they get's nominated in oscars just because it's been considered best in the world but any honest man here knows how they work.