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Not many that I remember.
Did you take a poll? 😏
Chris Claremont, the writer of the 1982 Wolverine comics, said that in 1988 it seemed perfectly rational to cast Hoskins as Logan, citing the harshness and brutality that he portrayed as perfect compliments to Wolverine’s character at the time.
https://screenrant.com/xmen-wolverine-bob-hoskins-perfect-franchise-bad-movies/
Yeah, Claremont was a great writer (not by that point though, he was burning out quite badly and becoming quite self-indulgent, imo) but Hoskins would have been a bad pick - not a bad height, good actor, but bad for the rest.
I wasn’t keen in the way Singer was determined to only cast a tall actor in the role, and he didn’t understand the character at all, but Jackman worked for the script they had (though I will argue we only get flashes of the comic-book Wolverine on screen, leaving room for an another actor to give us a Wolverine that feels like the comic character).
The Q test is a good idea.
Jackman was a more romantic Clint Eastwood. It worked fine, I guess.
I don't think we'll see the real Wolverine. The actors who could play him are either old or dead.
I thought he was the best of the bunch of youngsters, personally. Which isn't saying much.
If we're talking about the actor specifically (and not how Bond is written), it's a bit like asking how long a piece of string is (the answer is it depends incidentally, haha).
It's annoying and even vague when put like that, but since picking an actor for any role is somewhat an intuitive process it becomes tricky having a list of specific qualities that this character should have - the exact hair colour, the exact accent, the exact ear and jawline size etc. With Bond especially each actor has been different and unique, even when they're playing the same character with Bond's fundamental qualities intact.
Obviously there's some points of disagreement here on a very broad level about what we want from Bond (the biggest one is obviously whether Bond needs to be white or can he be played by an actor of any other race, and there are obviously different arguments for or against this). I think all of us agree that the actor needs to convey a sense of masculinity, gravitas, charisma, confidence, Britishness, and sex appeal, but those in itself are qualities that can look very different dependent on the actor in question.