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  • MSL49MSL49 Finland
    Posts: 564
    DEKE_RIVERS wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    My guess is there’ll be a lesser known actor in there, possibly more TV oriented, a more established character actor with a film/tv career behind them -albeit not a star yet/connected to another franchise - who’ll eventually get the role and was probably always the favourite. Maybe another vaguely recognisable name as a second choice).

    I don't think there's an unknown favorite. Who could it be? Callum Turner? He's already worked with the producer and knows him personally.

    Jack O'Connell?

    Tom Bateman?

    I still think Elordi and Dicikinson are the front runners, even if they don't end up getting the role.

    Havent think of Bateman but i think he should be consider.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited 12:18pm Posts: 19,046
    I think it could be interesting to have a revolving star policy, sort of like a movie version of Have I Got News For You, but then equally I think how Craig or Brosnan were such bit hits in the role and there was a genuine desire to see more films from them. Although there certainly is lots of interest garnered from having a new lead actor, I don't know if you can keep doing it.
    007HallY wrote: »
    George_Kaplan wrote: »
    It does seem to have been dominated by posh people in recent years.

    I always find it interesting how Bond seems to be played by actors who have completely different backgrounds to the character. We never get the likes of Tom Hiddleston or Benedict Cumberbatch doing it, which would make sense in many ways (ex boarding school, upper middle class types). The majority are from working class backgrounds, although by the time they become Bond they have a not insignificant level of success (especially financially) in their careers.

    Might be coincidence to some extent (I don't think they'd start rejecting actors based on their background) but I think there's something to it on some level. That sense of irony some actors might naturally have towards the character where others wouldn't. I think having a Tom Hiddleston play Bond would come off quite odd.

    That's a really interesting thought, it's true that pretty much all of the Bonds have come from working or middle class backgrounds, it's quite striking when you think about it really. Dalton's probably the poshest in terms of his background(?), and not really very posh at that.
    That someone like Roger has an onscreen persona which is kind of a caricature of a posh, well-bred guy probably is to his strength, it's true. He's able to be on the outside looking in and making a comment on that, to some extent.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited 12:56pm Posts: 5,913
    mtm wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    George_Kaplan wrote: »
    It does seem to have been dominated by posh people in recent years.

    I always find it interesting how Bond seems to be played by actors who have completely different backgrounds to the character. We never get the likes of Tom Hiddleston or Benedict Cumberbatch doing it, which would make sense in many ways (ex boarding school, upper middle class types). The majority are from working class backgrounds, although by the time they become Bond they have a not insignificant level of success (especially financially) in their careers.

    Might be coincidence to some extent (I don't think they'd start rejecting actors based on their background) but I think there's something to it on some level. That sense of irony some actors might naturally have towards the character where others wouldn't. I think having a Tom Hiddleston play Bond would come off quite odd.

    That's a really interesting thought, it's true that pretty much all of the Bonds have come from working or middle class backgrounds, it's quite striking when you think about it really. Dalton's probably the poshest in terms of his background(?), and not really very posh at that.
    That someone like Roger has an onscreen persona which is kind of a caricature of a posh, well-bred guy probably is to his strength, it's true. He's able to be on the outside looking in and making a comment on that, to some extent.

    I think Sean Connery summed it up when he said the audience have to believe that Bond can throw a punch and seduce women, but there's very much that 'wink wink' element to everything. Not making fun of it necessarily, but playing it with that element of wryness, like the actor's in on the fantasy to some extent. It makes sense. Trying to lean too much into that refined side of Bond without, say, Moore's eyebrow raises or Connery's wry smile would be odd, and it just makes sense someone with distance might be able to get it a bit more (Bond is, after all, a character who kills for a living and has a ruthless streak to him. He'd either come off as a psychopath if the actor tried to authentically replicate that ex-boarding school, upper middle class image, or it'd be unconvincing).

    Again, it's my major issue with the idea of Leo Suter as Bond. I don't know his background, but he has that 'nice Oxford boy' feel to him, at least to me. It's probably great for Lynley incidentally.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
    Posts: 8,616
    A "Nice Oxford boy' who can "throw a punch"...

  • 007HallY007HallY
    Posts: 5,913
    Yeah, they all have beards and put on deep voices in that show and fight each other. He has good physicality. That's not the issue.
  • MSL49MSL49 Finland
    Posts: 564
    What you guys think of Lambert Wilson? He was tested in 86.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited 3:53pm Posts: 3,351
    DEKE_RIVERS wrote: »
    Isn't acting in the UK a posh thing?
    Far more so than it used to be, according to Eccleston.

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/apr/01/christopher-eccleston-impossible-for-me-to-become-an-actor-today
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 16,092
    007HallY wrote: »
    I think a big part of Bond is the fact that the actor is in the role long term, and they have the responsibility of the character in a sense. You don't really want a series of one offs that dilute the franchise (I think Amazon especially will be hesitant to do that as it'd rock the boat too much for now).
    George_Kaplan wrote: »
    It does seem to have been dominated by posh people in recent years.

    I always find it interesting how Bond seems to be played by actors who have completely different backgrounds to the character. We never get the likes of Tom Hiddleston or Benedict Cumberbatch doing it, which would make sense in many ways (ex boarding school, upper middle class types). The majority are from working class backgrounds, although by the time they become Bond they have a not insignificant level of success (especially financially) in their careers.

    Might be coincidence to some extent (I don't think they'd start rejecting actors based on their background) but I think there's something to it on some level. That sense of irony some actors might naturally have towards the character where others wouldn't. I think having a Tom Hiddleston play Bond would come off quite odd.

    The opposite can be true as well: Humphrey Bogart was a posh boy from an upper class background, a doctor's son if I'm not mistaken, yet he played tough guys, cops, private eyes and gangsters, very much working class.
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