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My Top 6 movies are GE, TLD, OHMSS, CR, OP, FRWL
So I'm a fan of all 6 actors!
I'm more critical of Craig and Connery than of Dalton, Moore or Brosnan though!
have their strengths. :)
True, Lazenby can't be described as fantastic.
want to add bloody to the start and cobber after, to get
the full impact. :D but I thought Lazenby did a great job.
I'm all for her being in a spinoff show of her own. Her Ilsa Faust was the standout performance as a British agent for me this year, better than Eggsy, Harry Hart, Merlin, Bradley Fine etc etc..
Lazenby is like Rickie Lambert. Scored on his International debut, then everything beyond that went downhill. The rest cemented themselves as 'Bond', whether some people like them or not.
He was James Bond, they'd bound to notice he wasn't
an actor, yet every day he'd be filming, expecting it to
be his last. :)
In a way, his lack of acting training helped him in the more sentimental parts, because he did not overplay it....which is exactly how it should be done when you're being James Bond.
He struck lucky and we got a great Bond film.
natural performance. He conveys a great sense
of vulnerability in his romantic scene's, just as
an agent not used to showing his emotional more
exposed self.
A shame EON didn't realise the potential for an awesome follow up. Hunt directing again. Savalas back as Blofeld. Could have been absolutely Amazing. I don't think Laz would have blown it.
I think he got away with it in OHMSS, I'm not convinced he'd have progressed with DAF. There's nothing to suggest it would have been a foregone conclusion looking at his post 69 work. Hunt would have been the key.
I agree that it's no way certain. I just think if EON could have kept him nervous and hungry and on edge enough, they could have got a great performance out of him for DAF. He wouldn't have need to act too much. They just needed to get him riled up, angry and nasty. It could have been brilliant. And yes getting Hunt back wod have been pretty essential.
Instead we got the flabby, bloated (but still actually strangely enjoyable) Connery version.
Connery's lack of pride, and/or distain for the series and producer(s), demonstrated by his physical conditioning and dodgy grooming is what frustrated me about his return to the series. Not that much time had passed; there is no reason that he could not have looked close to how he did in Thunderball. Just look at him in The Great Train Robbery 9 years after Diamonds.
It was a studio excutive who made the last minute deal.
I wrote a post in the MAN FROM UNCLE thread lamenting poor Henry Cavill's lack of acting training and this might have explained any stiffness on his part (steady on folks, this isn't Carry on Viagra! wih Sid James and Kenneth Williams ;) ) but George Lazenby was pretty good for a non-actor. He did okay without formal training. Growing up I never questioned Lazenby. He was James Bond. Perhaps that's the best measure of a Bond actor - judging them when you're younger. As you get older you tend to view life with more cynical judgemental eyes.
Given that I lamented Cavill's lack of acting training I'm gonna be a complete hypocrite and suggest we have George Lazenby version 2 for Bond actor #7!
Daniel Craig is two other Bond actors?? :)) >:)
I probably should not have said it ...not here to make enemies :(
Formal training doesn't make actors great, talent does. Some actors have done very well without formal training. There's no way of knowing how much better - if at all - someone would be at acting with formal training in it.
Or look at NSNA
That's not fair comment on EON if you watch EON documentary Lazenby himself accepts blame. It was the hippy movement the world was not about war but about love. He got in to Bond to be cool and get women. Hippy chics wanted lovers not fighters he didn't feel cool anymore. He began hanging around with Ronan o'rahilly of Radio Caroline which was a famous 60 pirate radio station operating from a boat in the Atlantic which played records to UK radio listeners which were banned on commercial radio. Ronan got him in Weed and psychedelic drugs and poisoned his mind against EON as being capitalists who were controling him. Lazenby says that's his big regret.
No.
Although I'm open to other suggestions, I haven't seen any one mentioned on here with the necessary 'edge' other than him.
All the others are, from my perspective at least, pretty boys and lightweights.
He may not have the build or the look, but he can bring the necessary gravitas to the role. He's proven that when playing against superstars like Downey Jr.
I don't think either of them finished RADA tbh. But yes Dalton's formal training was overstated. He did work with the RSC in later years, so some 'on the job' training there.
I'm never sure why he is bigged up as a great theatre actor though. His style suggests it certainly, but he was never a theatre actor to rival Richardson, Guiness, Olivier and Geilgud, and never a film actor to rival Connery, Caine or Burton either.
So, he is leaving the door open