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They wouldn’t need to look far to find someone to sing the next theme song, either.
Be still my heart. Pull a For Your Eyes Only and put her in the credits sequence, I don’t care!
I posted about him earlier, as I think he's a viable candidate for Bond. Yep.
He really shone as King George III in Netflix's Queen Charlotte.
I know nothing about him (that said, from the pictures, goodness he looks young!), but wouldn't be surprised if the actor would come off some successful streaming drama, such as Bridgerton. Someone who is neither a star nor famous, but has a certain following and a modest fanbase already. I wouldn't be surprised either if they'd go for someone who has a track record in a drama aimed at women, so he can potentially appeal to them.
Said like someone who wasn’t introduced to him by The Shannara Chronicles.
You didn't see him in Yoga Hosers first?
lol! I’ll have to seek that one out.
Never heard of him, but I hope he doesn’t have a west country accent.
‘The name be Bonnd…Jaaaames Bonnd’
Driving a tractor instead of an Aston Martin.
If we here have never heard of him, I can’t imagine other Bond fans are talking about him. I can’t help wonder if the article has been written by someone who knows him and who is trying to help a mate out.
Looks like James Nelson-Joyce but with blond hair. Never heard of this guy.
I fully agree. If you look at his IMDb profile, the others also viewed section is a who’s who of potential Bond contenders.
At 37 I’d say his chances are small if the casting age of Amazon is true.
Can’t say he really has a very Bondian look.
I'm hoping for the same. However, I do hope that, if it is an unknown, there are plenty of good reasons to back it up, namely looks and charisma and acting chops. Scott Rose-Marsh isn't the one. At the moment, no one is, but that is the point of calling someone an unknown, I suppose ;)
Anyway, what is your definition of charisma? I see it mentioned a lot and I feel I know what you are saying but how does it translate into words and a performance?
Someone that walks into a room and makes everyone and everything else go unnoticed. Someone that the camera just eats up. Someone with undeniable presence.
"So what's your idea of a Bond?"
This is what Barbara Broccoli asked Matthew Goode when they met. Since she was already biased towards Craig I imagine she was ready to be dismissive of Goode's take no matter what he said.
However, it got me thinking...if YOU were up for the role and met with Amy Pascal, David Heyman, and Denis Villeneuve and they asked "So what's your idea of a Bond?", what would your answer be?
You mean she was already convinced Craig was the best man for the job and didn't find any of the other candidates came up to his standard.
Yes. I believe MGM wanted her to cast a wider net but she was pretty much fixated on Craig. It would've taken a lot for any other actor to have impressed her enough to change her mind.
It’s an actor’s job to make a producer choose him or her above any and all. None of the actors auditioning in 2005 obviously ticked the right boxes. Or not enough of them.
And like anything else, many people had to sign off on Craig. If reports are to be believed, once the auditions started, he was head and tails above the competition.
And Matthew Goode, an actor I really enjoy, showed his ignorance of the character. James Bond does not hate women. Period. Especially Fleming’s Bond. Unlike Connery-Bond, and Moore-Bond (once), he never slapped them around in anger.
Bond has passions for danger and fast cars , good alcohol and food and women (especially those with a wing down…).
I was aghast when I read Goode’s pitch. I saw where he was going, until he drove off the cliff.
And yes, Goode's answer was pretty bad. It started out with "going back to the books" (which Dalton would've been proud of) but then Goode went off the deep end with the bit about Bond being a drug addict and hating woman. Just way off the mark.
So he basically said at first what the employer wanted to hear, then showed he had not done his homework.
It's kind of a strange question, since it only really merits one type of response. As @mtm pointed out a while back, any actor who's serious about getting the role, is going to say something along the lines of, 'go back to the books', 'bring more depth', 'make him flawed', 'tougher', 'more believable', etc. No one's going to say, 'I want to make him a complete cartoon character.'
It does make me wonder how an actor today would answer that question. If they give the same type of answer, would the response just be; "so the same as Daniel Craig then?"
I suppose it’s a case of the specifics. It’s all well and good saying go back to the books, but if it’s followed up by an answer akin to Goode’s it’s of no use because the actor clearly doesn’t understand the character. What has drawn the actor to Bond in the books or even just the films? What do they find engaging about him that they want to bring out in the films they might lead? What can they bring that’s new?
Going back to the books means little in itself.
“I want to make him a racist chainsmoking depressive speed freak who is borderline obsessed with cooking eggs”