Who should/could be a Bond actor?

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  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    Comic purists wanted Bob Hoskins cast as Wolverine. Lol.
  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
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    talos7 wrote: »
    Comic purists wanted Bob Hoskins cast as Wolverine. Lol.

    Not many that I remember.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    talos7 wrote: »
    Comic purists wanted Bob Hoskins cast as Wolverine. Lol.

    Not many that I remember.

    Did you take a poll? 😏
  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
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    No, but I was on the net (well, I was on dial-up so I wasn’t on it that often!). I think someone on Ain’t it Cool suggested Hoskins at one point, but it wouldn’t have been a popular suggestion.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    The creator of the character…

    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/
  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
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    talos7 wrote: »
    The creator of the character…

    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).
  • weboffearweboffear Scotland
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    start at 26:30 doesn't last long but worth knowing
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    When I think about what works for me looks wise for Bond, I've recently began to apply what I call the Q test. Regarding previous Bonds they all would have been horribly miscast as Q, even with a pair of glasses and a white coat. I can't say that about some of the current candidates especially some of the younger ones. I'm not going to name names because I don't want to appear rude, especially as these are good looking guys, but some of them do have an element of geek which personally I don't think works for Bond.

    One of the reasons Craig works as Bond is because he looks like what he is - a killer. One of the reasons for Brosnan's success was that he looked like people's idea of a traditionally handsome leading man. I feel all the Bonds have at least one of these traits and some have elements of both. When I look at potential Bonds I look for candidates within this spectrum. There may be potential to go a bit further left field but I think there are limits.

    The Q test is a good idea.
    talos7 wrote: »
    The creator of the character…

    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).

    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.

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    weboffear wrote: »
    start at 26:30 doesn't last long but worth knowing

    I thought he was the best of the bunch of youngsters, personally. Which isn't saying much.
  • George_KaplanGeorge_Kaplan Being chauffeured by Tibbett
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    A question that I have, which maybe isn't so much an actor question as much as a general character question, is how different should the next Bond be? And how far can we actually get from the core of the character before he simply isn't James Bond anymore?
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    A question that I have, which maybe isn't so much an actor question as much as a general character question, is how different should the next Bond be? And how far can we actually get from the core of the character before he simply isn't James Bond anymore?

    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.
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    Find a better agent. I'll wait.
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