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Who should/could be a Bond actor?

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  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Thunderball wrote: »
    bondywondy wrote: »
    Rupert Friend is "ready" for James Bond: "I've got the scars and bruises"

    Friend acknowledged that his moment to snatch up the role might have passed, but added he feels contentedness in being confident enough to step up if called upon.

    "Last week, I literally decided that I was ready," he added. "Now they may or may not be interested, and that’s totally fine... It doesn’t matter if you do it or not, but it’s important to listen to the cycles of life and understand the universe is always on time, just sometimes you and I are a bit early or a bit late."

    https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/rupert-friend-james-bond-scars-bruises-newsupdate/



    Awesome. But of course, EON won't act fast and snatch him up. It's not in Barbara or Michael's character to act fast. 😅

    The article is from two years ago :)
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    Posts: 822
    mtm wrote: »
    Thunderball wrote: »
    bondywondy wrote: »
    Rupert Friend is "ready" for James Bond: "I've got the scars and bruises"

    Friend acknowledged that his moment to snatch up the role might have passed, but added he feels contentedness in being confident enough to step up if called upon.

    "Last week, I literally decided that I was ready," he added. "Now they may or may not be interested, and that’s totally fine... It doesn’t matter if you do it or not, but it’s important to listen to the cycles of life and understand the universe is always on time, just sometimes you and I are a bit early or a bit late."

    https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/rupert-friend-james-bond-scars-bruises-newsupdate/



    Awesome. But of course, EON won't act fast and snatch him up. It's not in Barbara or Michael's character to act fast. 😅

    The article is from two years ago :)

    Well there you go.

    🤦‍♂️
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited 2:01pm Posts: 3,210
    0.40: 'They were floating this idea that the next James Bond would be plucked at an early age out of the naval academy and they had all these great ideas, like that Bond himself was going to pick the next candidate to fill the role of 007.' Kripes.

  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    I wonder what that means: pick the next 007?
  • 007HallY007HallY
    Posts: 4,548
    I'm not quite sure what he meant with that either. Not sure if he misspoke or misremembered something, or if it was some sort of early idea that didn't make it into the script (it also seems like he heard this idea second hand, so it might be a 'take with a pinch of salt' situation). I'd heard that story about his response to that question before! It seems they were looking for something particular (I know Craig said he explicitly wanted to do his own thing with the character - strip it back, give it more an edge etc. Which I guess is more the sort of response they were looking for).
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    Picking the next 007 could either refer to selecting the next actor to portray Bond or it literally could me selecting the next 007; while James Bond is not a code name, there may have been an an a previous 007 who died or retired.
  • 007HallY007HallY
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    I can see them doing a thing in the future where a previous 007 to Bond is referenced (could even be the villain if they wanted to re-explore the rogue 00 concept). Anyway, I’d be interested to know more of the stuff about those early CR drafts. It seems they really backtracked on the young Bond stuff. Interestingly from what they’ve said this time round they seem to ideally want an actor in the mid 30s range rather than 20s or early 30s, and much of it seems to come down to younger actors not quite being up to it.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited 4:50pm Posts: 3,210
    mtm wrote: »
    I wonder what that means: pick the next 007?

    I suspect he just used 'James Bond' and '007' interchangeably, tbh, so it sounds like they could've been thinking of going full-on codename - the retiring agent codenamed 'James Bond' choosing his own replacement to be the next one to carry the codename, 'James Bond.' I'm glad that one didn't go any further!
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited 5:29pm Posts: 16,973
    007HallY wrote: »
    I'm not quite sure what he meant with that either. Not sure if he misspoke or misremembered something, or if it was some sort of early idea that didn't make it into the script (it also seems like he heard this idea second hand, so it might be a 'take with a pinch of salt' situation). I'd heard that story about his response to that question before! It seems they were looking for something particular (I know Craig said he explicitly wanted to do his own thing with the character - strip it back, give it more an edge etc. Which I guess is more the sort of response they were looking for).

    Maybe he was playing the story for laughs, but I did think that surely all actors would think to say that they want to make the character more human, more relatable, more vulnerable etc.? You would think that would just be a default thing to say if anything, actors usually want to play real emotions. I'd be amazed if anyone said they wanted to make him more of a comedy character and less realistic.
    Venutius wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    I wonder what that means: pick the next 007?

    I suspect he just used 'James Bond' and '007' interchangeably, tbh, so it sounds like they could've been thinking of going full-on codename - the retiring agent codenamed 'James Bond' choosing his own replacement to be the next one to carry the codename, 'James Bond.' I'm glad that one didn't go any further!

    I doubt it's that but you're probably right that we was thinking of the previous 007 picking Bond to be the next one, if it is that then what he's describing sounds a lot like Michael Wilson's original plans for what became Living Daylights with a young Bond fresh out of the Navy and the old 007.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited 7:06pm Posts: 4,548
    mtm wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    I'm not quite sure what he meant with that either. Not sure if he misspoke or misremembered something, or if it was some sort of early idea that didn't make it into the script (it also seems like he heard this idea second hand, so it might be a 'take with a pinch of salt' situation). I'd heard that story about his response to that question before! It seems they were looking for something particular (I know Craig said he explicitly wanted to do his own thing with the character - strip it back, give it more an edge etc. Which I guess is more the sort of response they were looking for).

    Maybe he was playing the story for laughs, but I did think that surely all actors would think to say that they want to make the character more human, more relatable, more vulnerable etc.? You would think that would just be a default thing to say if anything, actors usually want to play real emotions. I'd be amazed if anyone said they wanted to make him more of a comedy character and less realistic.

    True, although I think even just saying that wouldn't have been very specific. With CR being the story it likely would have been a bit obvious too. I remember Craig during an interview joking that he wanted to approach Bond by being 'humourless' (which again is a joke and I'd say not wholly indicative of his portrayal, but it very much gives you an idea of that harder edge/what exactly his different take on the character was, which made his portrayal unique).
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