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@Risico007 mate, it ain't our obligation to show you anyone "acting". If you're that bothered then seek out one of Turner's films or shows yourself not select clips.
Aidan Turner and Hiddleston both have the public support (well, at least according to Twitter), but I feel we need to look further afield for the next Bond.
Here are a slew of actors people aren't talking about but I feel should be considered:
Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders, Offender, Green Room)
Paapa Essiedu (National Theatre's King Lear, RSC's Hamlet)
Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Sing Street, Macbeth, What Richard Did)
Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood, The Legend of Tarzan)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, Triple 9, The Martian, Secret in Their Eyes)
Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey, The Fall)
Matthew McNulty (Misfits, The Musketeers, Jamaica Inn)
David Ajala (Starred Up, Jupiter Ascending)
Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders, Batman Begins, Red Eye, Inception)
Ed Skrein (Deadpool, The Transporter Refueled)
and, obviously....Danny Dyer
None of them have the bond look
Ewan Mcgreggor I realize is only 44 perhaps a trilogy with him as 007
I love Alexander Skarsgard looks wise for Bond and seing a few clips from True Blood he does have the attitude as well the only problem is that he is not British.
Jamie Dornan could work he has the looks and has o,ayed a serial killer on the fall so he could bring both sides of the character the cahrming and sophisticated Guy and the cold blooded killer.
He would also bring the woman who liked him as Christian Gray.
Ed Skrin is someone i have to check his acting but his looks convince me
This. Only thing I've enjoyed him in was 'Game of Thrones,' before they recast him. Other than that, seems like a mediocre actor.
In short too pretty boy.
i know here many disagree but to give the franchise a boost we need an Actor who can connect with the female audiences like yes Pierce did.
Pierce for better or worse was the Bond of the female audiences, if Brosnan brought something to franchise were lots of female fans and we need that back again.
There are many woman who do like Daniel Craig but another big part prefer a pretty boy or more obviously handsome so a guy like Ed Skrin could work
I think he meant of the wooden variety...
So have I Mrs Coggins on the other hand would rather that I wasn't
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Then i apologzie for jumping into that conclusion so fast.
But yes wooden actor shouldn't be on a Bond flick, they don't have to be thespians but at least have a special something.
Turner - TV actor lacking screen presence and a vague resemblance to the comic strip 007.
Paapa Essiedu - No. He's black.
Jack Reynor - No comment as I know nothing about him.
Alexander Skarsgård - Is he british? If not no.
Chiwetel Ejiofor - No. He's black.
Jamie Dornan - Looks ok. Screen test, maybe. Ok in fifty shades.
Matthew McNulty - No comment as I know nothing about him.
David Ajala - No. He's black.
Cillian Murphy - Interesting suggestion. But may not have the look.
Ed Skrein - Is he british? If not no.
Danny Dyer - No. But looks more like 007 than Idris Elba.
I didn't like any of those suggestions. Ejiofor could make an interesting M in my opinion.
Well, if it was allowed here to upload movies, I’d upload 3 seasons of “Being Human” (22 ep.), 6 episodes of “Desperate Romantics” and 8 ep. of “Poldark”, but that’s not possible and it would be easier to find these series, for example, on Netflix :) Until that I can suggest Turner’s pics as the vampire Mitchell (from “Being Human”) and Ross Poldark (from “Poldark”). Both of these shows are just superb for viewing: BH – the fine mix of drama, comedy, supernatural genre and Poldark – a historical drama about an impoverished nobleman who fights for the revival of the mining business in Cornwall. Watch them, you won’t be regretting!
And also some pictures))
I hope my message isn't very big... OK, just one more for fun ;)
That pretty much sums up Turner for me.
All of the pictures and GIFs that are posted as "evidence" that he's the most compelling candidate for the part just show me a guy that looks like he's trying too hard to portray that coolness and danger that it takes to be Bond. That's a problem that I think both he and Hiddleston have going against them, although it's not as big of a problem for Hiddleston.
Only the biggest fan of Bond would think that all actors play their roles solely with the purpose to show "coolness and danger" for their potential Bond role. Turner doesn't "try hard" to portray these qualities, he simply portrays them. Anyway I think that everyone should decide for himself what he likes and what not, according to his own experience. So if someone is really interested in Turner (not even as Bond, but as a young talented actor), just watch some of his shows and judge for yourself. And also he's not a hundred dollar bill, to please everyone, so if someone doesn't like him - it's okay!
Connery's old Rugs might make a come back :)
Something too pretty boy about him. I could be wrong, but I'm not seeing that dark steely quality that Bond requires. That killer edge.
Of course not everything's an audition for Bond. Obviously, I never said that it was. If you look at those GIFs of him with the cigarette and in the tuxedo posted a page or two back, those simply have the look of a man trying too hard to be cool, rather than naturally displaying such a quality.
Actually, though, a part of me does hope that Turner gets the part. It'll free up a lot of free time and some extra spending money as I won't have to worry about wasting either of those on the Bond franchise for the coming decade or so.
Does that phrase still mean Sperry's and Gucci and Polo and white, clean-shaven men with slicked hair and rigid jaws?
Look it up and you wont find Turner.
OK, in those gifs Turner is in the role of Philip Lombard from Agatha Christy’s “Ten Little Niggers” and I’m afraid my knowledge of English is too poor to handle the discussion of this character, but if you are interested and show a little patience, I’ll try.
So, in the movie they make Lombard a bloody killer who killed 21 people with his own hands. That was a mistake, because in the novel Lombard didn’t kill people personally but left them in the desert without food and water, what makes him not a terrible murderer but a petty thief, greedy and sneaky. And he doesn’t even understand his crime, because those people were the natives of Africa, whom he did not consider to people. However at the same time Lombard is a womanizer, perhaps even a gigolo, who has success with women of a certain type (that’s why he was so gallant with Vera and careless with her at the end).
And Turner played that role excellently: he played a narcissistic, selfish, arrogant crook, who wants to appear more dangerous and important then he is in reality. It’s interesting to watch how these arrogance and self-confidence disappear when Lombard is alone, without the audience, and he begins to worry, but then again takes himself in hands trying to survive at any cost.
As you see, Lombard is not Bond, he’s Lombard, and why should Turner have played him like Bond?
Here is what I’m trying to say: you, people, are looking for ready Bond, instead of looking for a good versatile actor with nice appearance, who can bring something new in the role. In my opinion, Turner can do this (not only with Bond role but with any role he’ll play), someone else thinks otherwise… But we can’t decide anything, can we?
So, this was tough but good exercise in my English :bz
As I've now said twice, that's not the case at all. I've seen Turner act, and I don't find him to be a "good, versatile actor with nice appearance". The idea that us "people" who haven't seen the light on Turner have only reached that opinion because we haven't seen him in action on the screen is, quite simply, wrong.
Based on what I've seen of Turner, I don't see him bringing anything new to the role. Even his most ardent supporter on this site has described him as "Dalton-lite", which is about what I'd imagine he'd bring to the part: some of what Dalton did, but watered-down, with a mix of Brosnan. Can't say that this would interest me at all.