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He looks like he can blend right into a hallmark movie.
There is a photo of Peter Hunt directing John Richardson doing a FRWL scene in a screentest! 'Cinema Retro' magazine depicted it in one their issues!
He definitely had potential but would have need a little time with a trainer and a better haircut.
https://www.life.com/arts-entertainment/being-007-life-behind-the-scenes-at-james-bond-auditions/
Yeh, thats it!
Might not have been bad at all!
I suspect they always would have drifted towards the rawer, sexier actors. It was the 60s after all, times were changing and all that. I think such actors were more in vogue than the likes of Howard, Johnson and even David Niven (who I guess had their hey day in the 50s). The first Bond films were certainly made with the intention of capturing some of that more modern, swinging 60s type vibe rather than something more low key and 50s-esque if that makes sense too, so I think the producers knew they needed to find the right type of actor.
Yes, Reed was considered I think for OHMSS, but Broccoli and Saltzman said they had neither the time nor the resources to change his rough housing, heavy drinking public image. I think pre-'61 he was in quite a lot of uncredited and secondary parts so wouldn't necessarily have been on the producer's radar at that time. That and he was in his mid-20s so might have been deemed too young anyway. It is a shame. Wonderful actor, but an awful drunk.
Yeah I can see that. He was a very good-looking fella, and very late-60s somehow. He never really made it very big, seemed to do lots of gallo films and the like- I'm not aware of having seen him in anything. I'd love to see some of those tests, can they really all have performed worse than Lazenby?
Yes I think they were somewhat ahead of their time there, spotting that the Cary Grant/Niven type was perhaps on the way out. Connery was a bit more modern, somehow.
Yes, his performances were getting a bit wilder by then also. But I wonder if they came across him for Dr No back before he was known for being wild: he was certainly around and getting started in movies, not in a dissimilar position to Connery, even. I can certainly imagine him doing it.
I think the fact that 5 out of his first 9 film roles were uncredited didn't help, and the rest are very much minor roles (much of it is stuff like like 'thug' or 'teddy boy in cinema fight'). Even Connery was always credited and played named characters, so I guess was more in the vein of a working character actor rather than a young actor at the very start of their career as Reed was at that time.
Reed of course did a film called The Assassination Bureau in '69 with Diana Rigg. Only seen it once a long time ago but I remember he had good chemistry with Rigg and seemed like he could play Bond. He's actually more or less who I imagine whenever I read the novels.
Yeah, yeah Richardson Shmichardson - what about that lady !!!!???!!!!
Not an easy angle to see from, but could it be Ingrid Pitt? :-?
Will he rock rings, bracelets, necklaces, tattoos etc.
It does make bond more modern but also a bit ordinary.
But could he even fit into modern society without such an update?
Can you please avoid double posting by using the edit button? Just click the little wheel you notice in the upper right corner of your post when you move the cursor.
Thank you.
Not all posts should be made into one you @#$%&;!
I take that as a 'yes'.
Me neither, although he does have screen presence from what I've seen of him. He might make an interesting Tanner, perhaps? But not Bond, not in my opinion at least.
Masculine, handsome, down to earth, sharp cheekbones, good voice.
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I really like ATJ from the clips I’ve seen of bullet train. Whoever ends up in the role should hint at similar smoothness/swagger (that reminds of Vincent Vega, Frankie 4 Fingers etc.)
I think it’s one of the things that set Connery, Craig and Brosnan apart from the others.
I get a British soap opera vibe from a lot of them.
Maybe it’s because it’s the only thing they’ve been cast in. You have to be able to think beyond it.
I get a soulless Marvel vibe from a lot of the other ones. It's not necessarily their own fault.
Agree, he is a looker too. He’s got the eyes, the smirk and from the fan trailer he could def pull of a sombre Driver type performance/art film.
I similarly kept an eye on Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts and thought he was incredibly flat.
True enough, although I think we can agree that a certain minimal "Bond" has to be there first. Imagine Tom Arnold, Joe Spinell, Justin Bieber, Steven Seagal, ... 😁 The world's greatest director couldn't elicit anything even close to Bond from these fellas.
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I also find ATJ has a habit of really mumbling his lines. In Tenet I could barely understand a word he said. I think he is an interesting choice and he is extremely well connected in the British film industry clic.