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@Jordo007 I hope you know I value your input.
But how is Elordi too Australian?
He’s got rave reviews in several of his parts. Whilst he is a little on the tall side, I don’t think he should be ruled out.
Even if he is Australian.
I know for a fact that Heath Ledger was considered after Pierce was let go.
Ahh sorry my fault, I should have made it more clear it was a joke. Everyone was talking about actors being "too short" "too tall"
Aside from all that, though, Craig's screentests were probably little more than a formality - after all, he even refused one of Campbell's direct requests ('No, I'm not going to do that - you do it!') and went home halfway through because he was 'bored'. That suggests that he didn't think that everything was riding on the outcome of the screentest. Maybe because BB and MGW had already told him to his face that they weren't just asking him to audition, they actually wanted him to take the role ('we want you to do this'). Craig's screentests would've had to be pretty disastrous for the studios to go against EON's wishes.
Little I saw of the other auditions... yes. Boy some of them were terrible.
I think there's a lot of Connery's coolness in his performance. Fleming's Bond isn't really like that.
Almost anything can be written into a contract, I wonder if any will have a "Bond Clause" that would free them if they were to get the 007 gig.
I know nothing about how these things are handled, just wondering.
https://www.vulture.com/article/josh-oconnor-takes-knives-out-wake-up-dead-man-to-church.html?_gl=1*1pq6rvj*FPAU*NTM2MTE2MDQ3LjE3NTU3MjIyMjc.*_ga*MTI3MTI1NjQ0My4xNzQ1MDg4NDk3*_ga_DNE38RK1HX*czE3NTcyMzc4ODIkbzQ2OSRnMSR0MTc1NzI0MDEyNyRqNTEkbDAkaDEyNTY1OTAyMDk.*_fplc*JTJCQThYYTh4UVYlMkZNZDJwakkwUURIeklobWNXMEN4ZVo4R1gwbDU4YTJuOU01emN0dmFJMVVzV04lMkIlMkJsWDQyamlOWE1tQ1l2WmVObG0lMkJkb25tbm5WdDVnTnU3ejRGdElhQzZ6VjZCclZ2WkRXTFB1aXFWdUhaUmMwR1VaSkZOZyUzRCUzRA..
No one said anything like that.
I hate the modern internet. So paywalled I can't even read the headline. What does it say?
Basically, that Josh O'Connor (playing a priest) steals the Knives Out movie from Daniel Craig.
Can't remember the names, but there were a few that were really painful, like the bloke had just entered a pub. I commented on this thread about it. I do remember thinking Sam Worthintgon particularly wasn't good.
Wow I’m surprised it’s been shown already, it’s not out for ages. They must be confident in it.
I guess to be fair it sounds like O’Connor is basically the lead; although he’s the detective, Blanc is kind of always the secondary character in the ones that we’ve seen so far. I’m sure Craig steals the occasional scene just as he has in the last couple.
O’Connor is really good though, I wouldn’t rule him out of Bond at all if he wants it.
Deke comments don't usually mean much with or without context.
I think a lot of that’s on the page based on how the character has developed in films (the Bond of Fleming’s CR doesn’t act quite like the version Craig played, even if the latter’s an adaptation. The cinematic version is much more quippy and outwardly more relaxed).
Anyway, I can see where Craig was coming from when he said he simply approached Bond as any other character. I don’t get the sense he was studying the other Bond performances (which I can imagine a number of actors doing).
Worthington’s was rough. Wasn’t hugely impressed with Cavill’s but you could tell he was adapting his performance with each take. The other ones were fine but not quite right.
Those were just line readings though to whittle down first line candidates. They’re often varied anyway and there were probably tens of dozens of those with lesser knowns.
Yes, Craig played the cinematic Bond. At least he knew Bond had to be a cool guy, not a John Le Carré-esque character.
I would even say that he overplayed the panther's walk.
I don't think Craig overplayed the walk, but I do think his physicality as Bond was very distinctive. I always think of his walk and facial expression when he throws away the key after crashing the guy's car in CR. There's a very subtle smile coming through that steely expression he tends to have as Bond, and you get that very brisk but panther-like strut. I just can't imagine any other Bond playing it quite that way, as small a thing as it is. Moore and Brosnan (probably even Connery) would have hammed up the smugness in their expressions, savouring the moment to varying degrees and probably even exaggerating the throw a bit more. Dalton may well have played it much more seriously or have even gone bigger with the smile. Lazenby... God knows what he would have done.
I think if anything it shows how Craig approached Bond on that individual level. He kind of built up this natural physicality around how he read/viewed Bond in the script. I always think during that 2012 Olympic short with the Queen he even exaggerates that 'strut' he does when he's walking up the stairs, and purposely creates a pastiche of (or even pokes a bit of fun at) his own Bond. It's that sense that he was very in tune with how he played the character/ could adapt it to even comedy skits (quite similar to Moore incidentally, and I'd say him, Craig, Connery, Brosnan, and Dalton all had that same individualistic approach to Bond. This idea that 'action' could be called and they'd just snap into James Bond mode, whatever that was for them).
I know during Scott Rose Marsh's supposed audition he was told to not do an impression of any individual Bond and instead do it his own way. I think that's important for this next guy. Not saying they have to reinvent the wheel, and ultimately they should have a script which understands how to write for the cinematic Bond which they can go off of, but I don't think any actor - no matter how charismatic, good looking, or talented - can get away with just doing an impression of the other actors, or indeed even that generic idea of 'James Bond'. They've got to make the role their own and prove, for better or for worse, they're the only one who could have brought this version of Bond to life.