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Who should/could be a Bond actor?

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  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
    edited 9:04am Posts: 1,144
    I can’t recommend any films starring either of those actors that will make you say ‘that’s James Bond’. If you simply want to see them act in films that I think are worth seeing because they’re good in them and the films are decent, I would recommend:

    Tramps , where Callum Turner plays a hapless young New Yorker trying to get back a bag back for his jailbird brother, and falling for the equally unlucky Grace Van Patten. It’s a small, slight rom-com which has good chemistry between its leads, and is the performance I like most from Turner. Nothing like 007, but if you simply want to like the actor, this is a good place to start (The Capture or Masters of the Air might be better if you can cope with TV rather than a film, though it’s obviously a bigger time commitment).

    Triangle of Sadness is probably the best film I’ve seen with Harris Dickinson as a lead. He’s part of a glamorous couple who go on an ill-fated cruise in this satire that’s very White Lotus. It’s not a great film, but it’s good if you can cope with satire, and Dickinson is good in it.The King’s Man is closer to Bond, but I think he’s overshadowed by design in that film.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited 9:07am Posts: 19,348
    Important to not be an emetaphobe if you're watching that one though! :D
  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    Posts: 2,450
    sandbagger1 wrote: »
    Farrell has, imo, had a better career without Bond than he would have had with it. His biggest action hero role, Total Recall, wasn’t a particularly good use of his talents, but look at him in The North Shore, The Banshees of Inisherin, etc. where he really gets to inhabit a character. I don’t think Bond would have been a good fit, though he certainly could have done it.

    I never really liked Farrell as a star, but now we have Paul Mescal. It's kind of sad.
  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
    Posts: 1,144
    mtm wrote: »
    Important to not be an emetaphobe if you're watching that one though! :D

    I had to look that word up. This forum is not supposed to educational. :D
  • George_KaplanGeorge_Kaplan
    edited 9:55am Posts: 845
    sandbagger1 wrote: »
    I can’t recommend any films starring either of those actors that will make you say ‘that’s James Bond’. If you simply want to see them act in films that I think are worth seeing because they’re good in them and the films are decent, I would recommend:

    Tramps , where Callum Turner plays a hapless young New Yorker trying to get back a bag back for his jailbird brother, and falling for the equally unlucky Grace Van Patten. It’s a small, slight rom-com which has good chemistry between its leads, and is the performance I like most from Turner. Nothing like 007, but if you simply want to like the actor, this is a good place to start (The Capture or Masters of the Air might be better if you can cope with TV rather than a film, though it’s obviously a bigger time commitment).

    Triangle of Sadness is probably the best film I’ve seen with Harris Dickinson as a lead. He’s part of a glamorous couple who go on an ill-fated cruise in this satire that’s very White Lotus. It’s not a great film, but it’s good if you can cope with satire, and Dickinson is good in it.The King’s Man is closer to Bond, but I think he’s overshadowed by design in that film.

    Thanks for that, I'll be sure to check them out. I don't watch many new releases, but since these two seem to be in with a good chance, and are being touted as the next big leading men, I thought I ought to see what all the fuss is about.

    I'd kind of like to see a bit of Elordi as well, but all the stuff he's been in looks awful.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited 11:30am Posts: 6,085
    I got a whiff of Bond from Turner in Emma. The Boys in The Boat is worth a look at too. He’s got some upcoming stuff which looks interesting. Pretty much anything past 2020 from him (he’s one of these actors who, once he hit his early 30s, looked and came off noticeably more mature, and I think for Bond that’s great).

    I guess for Elordi it’s Saltburn or possibly Euphoria. I wouldn’t really recommend much else from him, and yes, I’ve found a lot of the stuff he’s been in not great, although he’s got two interesting releases coming up (Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights). Even in Saltburn I got more ‘Bond’ from Barry Kheogan at points than him. But he’s worth keeping an eye on.

    Dickinson’s very good in A Murder At The End of The World. I personally find him magnetic and interesting to watch in Triangle of Sadness and Postcards From London. He has a smaller role in The Souvenir Part 2 where the role was originally meant to be played by Robert Pattinson (big shoes to fill, no doubt, and I find them similar actors in many ways). Regardless of what one thinks of him for Bond, I can’t deny the guy is very talented (better than the vast majority of the actors mentioned on here, and he already has a better career than most of them). I can see why he’s constantly touted for Bond - he’s got that sense of enigma and sexuality about him (although whether he’d genuinely bring out the more wisecracking, swaggery side to Bond is another issue, but I think he’s got more positives than negatives. In terms of raw acting talent I think he’s the most comparable to Craig, and it’s worth saying those are another pair of big shoes to fill).

    Obviously with all those actors we don’t have a ‘Layer Cake’ to go from in regards to Bond, although I think those ‘Bondian’ roles can be misleading or underwhelming. I don’t find The Gentlemen to be a very good Bond ‘audition’ for Theo James even though it’s easier to see him as the character in that particular role if you want to. Argyle and The Man From UNCLE pretty much killed any sense I had that Henry Cavill would make a good Bond (maybe a serviceable one, but I found him very underwhelming when actually seeing him in that sort of role. I get the sense he’d be out of his depth as Bond, and I certainly can’t see him putting in as strong a performance that the other Bonds did at their best).
  • George_KaplanGeorge_Kaplan
    Posts: 845
    007HallY wrote: »
    I got a whiff of Bond from Turner in Emma. The Boys in The Boat is worth a look at too. He’s got some upcoming stuff which looks interesting. Pretty much anything past 2020 from him (he’s one of these actors who, once he hit his early 30s, looked and came off noticeably more mature, and I think for Bond that’s great).

    I guess for Elordi it’s Saltburn or possibly Euphoria. I wouldn’t really recommend much else from him, and yes, I’ve found a lot of the stuff he’s been in not great, although he’s got two interesting releases coming up (Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights). Even in Saltburn I got more ‘Bond’ from Barry Kheogan at points than him. But he’s worth keeping an eye on.

    Dickinson’s very good in A Murder At The End of The World. I personally find him magnetic and interesting to watch in Triangle of Sadness and Postcards From London. He has a smaller role in The Souvenir Part 2 where the role was originally meant to be played by Robert Pattinson (big shoes to fill, no doubt, and I find them similar actors in many ways). Regardless of what one thinks of him for Bond, I can’t deny the guy is very talented (better than the vast majority of the actors mentioned on here, and he already has a better career than most of them). I can see why he’s constantly touted for Bond - he’s got that sense of enigma and sexuality about him (although whether he’d genuinely bring out the more wisecracking, swaggery side to Bond is another issue, but I think he’s got more positives than negatives. In terms of raw acting talent I think he’s the most comparable to Craig, and it’s worth saying those are another pair of big shoes to fill).

    Obviously with all those actors we don’t have a ‘Layer Cake’ to go from in regards to Bond, although I think those ‘Bondian’ roles can be misleading or underwhelming. I don’t find The Gentlemen to be a very good Bond ‘audition’ for Theo James even though it’s easier to see him as the character in that particular role if you want to. Argyle and The Man From UNCLE pretty much killed any sense I had that Henry Cavill would make a good Bond (maybe a serviceable one, but I found him very underwhelming when actually seeing him in that sort of role. I get the sense he’d be out of his depth as Bond, and I certainly can’t see him putting in as strong a performance that the other Bonds did at their best).

    Thanks for the recommendations.
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