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Yes, there will be actors (young or old) who can sell it as they are, but I also think a lot of actors can develop into it.
Yeah, they're not the same as Roger, but even a light central performance is hard to come by. You're right about Pitt and Clooney, although they've been tailing off a bit recently, although Pitt was pretty light in Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, yeah.
Reynolds is the only one who I feel looks at a script and decides to play it light.
This guy can't play it light, but can play it, HEAVY........ :))
This is something I have been thinking about a bit lately, without coming to any kind of conclusion.
I personally tend to forget that these guys are actors. They don't have to be Bond, they just have to convincingly portray him. It might be because social media has drastically shortened the distance between actors and audiences while at the same time being stage-managed to a large degree. It is certainly easier (for amateurs like me) to look for somebody who is Bond-esque before they step in front of the camera, instead of figuring out how somebody could transform.
(All of this is complicated by the Bond-Lifestyle-Industrial-Complex that depends to a degree on the actor being as "Bondian" as possible at all times, to milk for posts)
Because I know nothing about the craft of acting, I don't know how possible it is to "just act" attributes like "dangerous", "suave" or "sexy".
I mean, this isn't how I envision Bond:
but ignoring whether he is available or wants to do it, I think he has the acting ability to pull it off.
PS: BTW, the profile that picture is from is incredible...
https://www.gq.com/story/robert-pattinson-on-batman-tenet-isolation-june-cover
Unfortunately Jon Hamm is American, @Univex! :(
I agree, especially based on that trailer.
Seems in this day and age you can cast ANY actor in an iconic role provided the trailer is edited, scored, and color timed just like every other trailer out there. If there is a slight tweaking to tradition: the vengeance line or eye shadow for instance, the actor will be hailed as the new favorite and most true to the creator's intent.
Therefore I challenge Barbara Broccoli to cast Matthew McConaughey as the next Bond. Edit, color time and score the teaser trailer for B26 just like THE BATMAN, insert one or two shots of an expressionless McConaughey brooding and I guarantee the audience will embrace him as a superior Bond to Daniel Craig. His Texan accent will miraculously be overlooked with revisionist history claiming Fleming intended Bond to be Texan anyway.
Just kidding.
That said, Getting back to Pattinson, still can't see him as Bond.....or Batman. Sorry.
Carry on......................
I'm sure people had a similar response to Craig when he was cast, and look what happened. I'm not saying Pattinson is going to be a great Batman, despite my own opinion that he will do a good job, but I am saying the guy has good a chance as any to be right for it, and seeing as the guy is yet to have more than a few seconds on screen to prove that, anything could happen :)
Just like whoever is gonna be the next James Bond. The choice may seem odd to us or not the route we would've chosen but until we see them in the role, it's truly impossible to completely turn them away.
Pattinson kind of reminds me of Edward Scissorhamds or that first monster in Monsters Club. The one that whistles.
Anyway, he might be a better Dark Knight than Ben Affleck, who was the pudgiest Batman since Adam West. But he's no James Bond.
The Shadmock...haha. Yes he does rather.
Turner is still my top choice.
Yep, mine too.
+1.
Like I've said before I'll give anyone a chance.
Right age (at least if gap between films isn't too long) , right look from the pics I saw. Worth a screen test me think.
That's it! Now that would be perfect casting.
That is James Bond. How can anyone not look at Turner and see Bond here.
I think screentest is the key.
That's actually a good sign: you were involved enough in the film to get feelings about the character, not the actor.
Jackson-Cohen certainly has th looks and hight. I know nothing of his acting though.
And boys, can we limit the Aidan Turner adoration to one or two posts per page? We know you love him, you've made that clear for years now...
BB will want another Craig imo. Someone a bit rougher and edgier. Turner seems like a very standard choice to me. He might have had a shot before, but I think Craig has genuinely changed the role. BB adores him in a way she never did Brosnan. Not sure they’ll want to go back to a more “traditional” choice anymore.
To be fair Turner seems like a decent actor and he isn’t too famous, so he’s more likely than say, Henry Cavill. But I still think it’s unlikely. As a general rule of thumb, I think anyone who the press hype up as the next Bond, probably won’t be the next Bond.
I think the new Bond is right now an almost complete unknown.