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As for the age thing, again, some people seem to not want to even attempt to consider the idea that whoever will be James Bond in Bond 26 isn't currently the age you think Bond should be at the time. If the age range is 35 - 50 (although again these are restrictions being put on by people here, not the producers as we know of), why are we rejecting people that are younger than that now, who will be around that age when the film's realistically gonna be made, but also still considering actors who will be past that age when the film is made? Does that make sense?
I'm not saying anyone has to like the suggestions, but I think these discussions should be way more open than a few want them to be, and I'm not saying we should be open to every actor (Dinklage-style), but if someone is making realistic choices (although I should stress I do not believe Idris Elba is a realistic choice) but in other examples of people's suggestions, who are being realistic despite whatever opinions you have about race or age or whatever else, shouldn't just be shutdown straight away and should at least be given a chance to pitch the idea before we start saying what people can and can't talk about.
This page shouldn't really have to have rules, just realistic choices based on personal opinion.
Also the possibility has never been beyond EON's grasps, wasn't that Colin Salmon considered to take over as Bond? That would've been rubbish in my opinion, but still.
There is no leeway whatsoever for for me. If the producers deviate from that list at all I’m out.
It’s pointless woke nonsense IMO.
I didn’t say the page had rules, I gave my own personal casting preference based on the character, heritage and tradition.
Bond is white...Fleming said so, the films also say so....in LALD he is referred to as a ‘honkey’!
Looking like a 12 year old should be an auto exclude however, and would eliminate half of the suggestions in this thread. ;)
I can understand that bond shouldn't be anyone but British but Why can't bond drive a German car?
Facially, physically and height wise he isn't and i wasn't exactly considering him for bond, but i won't deny the fact that he is a phenomenal actor and has far better acting skills than most of the candidates which have been suggested here. That being said, i don't want him to play Nick Nack either, short people shouldn't be playing comic characters just because of their height and this is coming from a guy who is 6ft tall (incase someone's thinking that i am sympathizing with him). If he ever being cast in a bond film i want him to play a serious character rather than just comic one because it would be a complete waste of an amazing actor.
Now that you have mentioned about being american, while i was watching GOT i never knew that he was american. Nonetheless, even i want bond to be white, male, 6ft tall, British.
As the title suggests.
And for the record, both of my main choices fit under that guideline given for what we should be looking for. The only difference is that they're currently younger than they would be when the film is probably cast, and a fact that some seem to be letting slip. I really can't see us getting it before 2024/25
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3571592/
To be fair, Dinklage is pretty much like every American actor trying to sound British : at best pantomime. This is why no American actor should play Bond. Or Holmes, or Robin Hood, or King Arthur, or any British character for that matter, but this is another topic.
Or is it just that no American actor in your view has perfected the British accent?
That's fair, but aside from that, I'm talking about the actual performance.
With "ifs", you can put Paris in a bottle. Because no American actor has ever pulled an acceptable British accent, why risk it? Because they all end up sounding more or less like this :
If someone “took a break” every time opinions differed this site wouldn’t exist.
@Ludovico, point understood. I also think it's a bit subjective; what's unacceptable to some could be fine or great to others. My girlfriend whose accent is from Southampton I think would argue against "no American has ever pulled an acceptable British accent", but I'd have to ask her about who specifically. I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong, just that no one opinion on the matter is absolute.
I also agree with those saying that, despite all of this, they are very unlikely to cast an American for all the reasons mentioned previously. I'm just saying, a person shouldn't necessarily be written off for that reason alone.
No American actor has perfected it. As an Englishman I find the attempts laughable....so over the top and unconvincing.
With all due respect only Brits can tell. It’s like myself commenting on whether Brit actors can ‘do’ American....it may sound ok, but I’m not really qualified to confirm.
Bang on. 👏
That’s true, that’s why I brought a British person home with me.
Yeah Elba is the only candidate I've seen who has anything approaching Connery's screen presence or the kind of sex appeal that a Bond should have (ladies do seem to love him), and as that cover says, he's got cool on his side. But he's just too old. There's no point in hiring a new Bond who will be over 50 before his second film.
Just catching up with the thread. Bleh, skin colour is irrelevant. Makes no difference to the character, especially in something like a Bond film which doesn't exactly look to play politics.
In the books Bond has black hair, in the films we've had two Bonds with fair hair. If you've managed to cope with that then a black-skinned Bond shouldn't be too challenging. It's just a colour, exactly the same. His hair colour changes nothing about his character.
In the books Bond is English (to start with) as is everybody at SIS. In the films suddenly he's Scottish and Moneypenny is Canadian(!?). You coped.
Sure. Why not. Who cares? I'm beginning not to. You guys have helped. A lot. I just don't give a damn anymore. Thank you.
Is that a kind of tantrum? It’s hard to tell.
Yes it is. Hard to tell, I mean. I'm sure you'll cope.
I don’t know, he’s an actor capable of changing what he does; as long as he could posh up his accent a bit he’d be good: and his brooding sort of smoothness is hardly a bad fit for Bond. And I’d say neither Roger or Pierce were really Bond either, it was Roger and Pierce doing the things Bond does, and they worked.
I could see Elba’s Bond being a little gritty though, and I don’t know if that’s where they should go. A new Roger Moore would be amazing, but I don’t know where you’d find him.
That criteria would rule both George Lazenby and Pierce Brosnan out from playing Bond!
Not a bad thought at all. I don't remember him stunning me, but I'm not sure I've seen him in anything where he had the opportunity (I saw the first couple of Treadstones but he didn't get to do much more than fight and run). If he isn't on the audition list I'd be stunned.
Especially as he played the young Brosnan in Mamma Mia!
:D
Indeed, and it's funny how the the 'short black hair with a comma over his eye' doesn't feature on the essential list... and that the minimum height just happens to coincide with Craig's height...
;)
Yes Brosnan was a push and we certainly don’t want another Australian. Lazenby’s odd accent was his main weakness.
Because options to change hair colour are available I didn’t include such a rigid criteria, but sticking to Fleming is the preference for sure.
5ft 10in is exactly UK average height. Below this is short and below average. Bond is not short. Nothing to do with Daniel Craig.