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  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    I'd prefer a good comedy actor, as those tend to be extremely good in serious roles. Mike Myers could do it.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    I'd prefer a good comedy actor, as those tend to be extremely good in serious roles. Mike Myers could do it.

    Steve Carell is very good if and when he plays a straight role.
    I could picture him as some kind of megalomaniac business type.
  • Since62Since62
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    Benny wrote: »
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    I'd prefer a good comedy actor, as those tend to be extremely good in serious roles. Mike Myers could do it.

    Steve Carell is very good if and when he plays a straight role.
    I could picture him as some kind of megalomaniac business type.

    He's been there and done that, no ?
  • 007HallY007HallY
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    Since62 wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    I'd prefer a good comedy actor, as those tend to be extremely good in serious roles. Mike Myers could do it.

    Steve Carell is very good if and when he plays a straight role.
    I could picture him as some kind of megalomaniac business type.

    He's been there and done that, no ?

    A weird part of my mind is imaging Steve Carrel doing a better Blofeld in SP/NTTD than Waltz.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Too famous. I still think we should go for veteran actors from Europe or outside UK/USA.
  • TheSkyfallen06TheSkyfallen06 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Too famous. I still think we should go for veteran actors from Europe or outside UK/USA.

    Ricardo Darín?
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  • LudovicoLudovico
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    TheSkyfallen06 wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Too famous. I still think we should go for veteran actors from Europe or outside UK/USA.

    Ricardo Darín?
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    Interesting suggestion. He's getting on in years though. I was thinking about Gabriel Garcia Bernal, who is the right age now and a veteran actor, although he might be a tad too famous and too good looking.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I'm watching Bullet Train Explosion and there's a few actors in it who could make convincing Bond villains. If they are fluent enough in English.
  • DaltonforyouDaltonforyou The Daltonator
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    Sacha Baron Cohen

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  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Daltonforyou wrote: »
    Sacha Baron Cohen

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    He can be surprisingly good in dramatic roles, but frankly I don't see it.
  • dewiparrydewiparry
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    sandbagger1 wrote: »
    Have I suggested Walton Goggins as a bad guy before? He is admittedly almost type-cast a charismatic villain, but watching Fallout has reminded me he's good at it.

    Hell yeah. Think of the unnerving sly portrayal he'd come up with.
  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
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    French actor Micha Lescot makes for a wonderful villain in AppleTV+’s Careme. I have no idea if he is fluent in English, but if so he’d be someone to consider. He stands at over 6’3’’, so nice and imposing.
  • SomethingThatAteHimSomethingThatAteHim
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    I may have seen it somewhere in this very thread but I saw someone suggest Diego Luna and I think he’d be a great choice. Think he could be a really good villain to spar off Bond in social settings before things turn violent, too.
  • fadetoblack7fadetoblack7 Chicago IL
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    With the announcement of Villeneuve as director, there’s a relatively unknown actor that he’s worked with a few times who definitely has the chops for a villain: David Dastmalchian. I think he could work!
  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
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    Yeah, he’s in Murderbot on at the moment. I’ve seen him in a few things. He could certainly do ‘creepy henchman’.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Some Québec actor, perhaps? Luc Picard, Maxime Gaudette? The latter played in Incendies.
  • packaddpackadd
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    Cillian Murphy

    Here is why: He has a chilling calmness and he can embody intellectual intensity with underlying threat.

    Here is a Bond-style villain concept: a psychological warfare mastermind. Think a geopolitical strategist manipulating global narratives from the shadows.
  • AnotherZorinStoogeAnotherZorinStooge Bramhall (Irish)
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    packadd wrote: »
    Cillian Murphy

    Here is why: He has a chilling calmness and he can embody intellectual intensity with underlying threat.

    Here is a Bond-style villain concept: a psychological warfare mastermind. Think a geopolitical strategist manipulating global narratives from the shadows.

    He's too good looking.

    I appreciate that's his thing, but he'd upstage the actor playing Bond with his dreamy blue eyes and lilting Cork brogue.
  • dewiparrydewiparry
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    David Corenswet, when he's available! Looks badass in recent interviews and well-mannered.
  • SomethingThatAteHimSomethingThatAteHim
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    It’s time for Benicio Del Toro to play the main Bond baddie. Villeneuve gets us one step closer.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    SomethingThatAteHim wrote: »
    It’s time for Benicio Del Toro to play the main Bond baddie. Villeneuve gets us one step closer.

    That would be a fun development!
  • UnivexUnivex
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    mtm wrote: »
    SomethingThatAteHim wrote: »
    It’s time for Benicio Del Toro to play the main Bond baddie. Villeneuve gets us one step closer.

    That would be a fun development!

    Yeah, would love that.
  • renno61renno61
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    Someone you would not expect as a villain,
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I suggested him before, because I'd like the return of bulky, more physically imposing main villains. We haven't had so many of them in the franchise, contrary to Fleming's novels, where they were quite numerous. Anyway, how about Mark Addy? He'd be the right age. My two reservations: he's very British and without a beard his face might be too soft.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I'm watching Oppenheimer at the moment. I think maybe Matthias Schweighöfer could make a good Bond villain, he's got an interesting face. My only reservations: another Germanic actor as a villain might be a cliche and on principle I'd rather have more brutish, physically imposing villains.
  • UnivexUnivex
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    I'm watching Oppenheimer at the moment. I think maybe Matthias Schweighöfer could make a good Bond villain, he's got an interesting face. My only reservations: another Germanic actor as a villain might be a cliche and on principle I'd rather have more brutish, physically imposing villains.

    He’d be very interesting, yes. Good call.
    How about Adrien Brody? Wouldn’t that be something?

  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Univex wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    I'm watching Oppenheimer at the moment. I think maybe Matthias Schweighöfer could make a good Bond villain, he's got an interesting face. My only reservations: another Germanic actor as a villain might be a cliche and on principle I'd rather have more brutish, physically imposing villains.

    He’d be very interesting, yes. Good call.
    How about Adrien Brody? Wouldn’t that be something?

    I always thought Brody had too nice a face. But I guess his profile is closer to what they have been casting for the later part of the Craig era. Personally, I'd rather have lesser known actors, but maybe this ship has sailed now.
  • UnivexUnivex
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Univex wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    I'm watching Oppenheimer at the moment. I think maybe Matthias Schweighöfer could make a good Bond villain, he's got an interesting face. My only reservations: another Germanic actor as a villain might be a cliche and on principle I'd rather have more brutish, physically imposing villains.

    He’d be very interesting, yes. Good call.
    How about Adrien Brody? Wouldn’t that be something?

    I always thought Brody had too nice a face. But I guess his profile is closer to what they have been casting for the later part of the Craig era. Personally, I'd rather have lesser known actors, but maybe this ship has sailed now.

    He was scary as hell in Peaky Blinders ;)
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Univex wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Univex wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    I'm watching Oppenheimer at the moment. I think maybe Matthias Schweighöfer could make a good Bond villain, he's got an interesting face. My only reservations: another Germanic actor as a villain might be a cliche and on principle I'd rather have more brutish, physically imposing villains.

    He’d be very interesting, yes. Good call.
    How about Adrien Brody? Wouldn’t that be something?

    I always thought Brody had too nice a face. But I guess his profile is closer to what they have been casting for the later part of the Craig era. Personally, I'd rather have lesser known actors, but maybe this ship has sailed now.

    He was scary as hell in Peaky Blinders ;)

    Haven't seen Peaky Blinders.

    There's a lot of fairly unknown veteran actors in Oppenheimer who I think could make very capable Bond villains. Jefferson Hall for instance. As Chevalier, he looked a bit like the novel's Hugo Drax. He just needed a shorter haircut and a burnt scar.
  • UnivexUnivex
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Univex wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Univex wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    I'm watching Oppenheimer at the moment. I think maybe Matthias Schweighöfer could make a good Bond villain, he's got an interesting face. My only reservations: another Germanic actor as a villain might be a cliche and on principle I'd rather have more brutish, physically imposing villains.

    He’d be very interesting, yes. Good call.
    How about Adrien Brody? Wouldn’t that be something?

    I always thought Brody had too nice a face. But I guess his profile is closer to what they have been casting for the later part of the Craig era. Personally, I'd rather have lesser known actors, but maybe this ship has sailed now.

    He was scary as hell in Peaky Blinders ;)

    Haven't seen Peaky Blinders.

    There's a lot of fairly unknown veteran actors in Oppenheimer who I think could make very capable Bond villains. Jefferson Hall for instance. As Chevalier, he looked a bit like the novel's Hugo Drax. He just needed a shorter haircut and a burnt scar.

    You should be a casting agent. Well done ;)

    As for Brody, take a look a this little gem of a scene



    Or this one

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