Who should/could be a Bond actor?

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  • Posts: 11,425
    Yes. I asked a few posts back, but does any one know if EON ever gave him serious consideration when looking to replace Dalton? He would have been an excellent and frankly quite obvious choice.
  • Posts: 11,189
    I wouldn't be surprised if he'd been asked at some point. Maybe he'd turned it down.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited May 2014 Posts: 14,596
    All I know is Fiennes said (recently, I think) that he would've made a terrible Bond. This belief leads me to assume he never would've taken the role had it been offered to him.
  • edited May 2014 Posts: 11,425
    QBranch wrote:
    All I know is Fiennes said (recently, I think) that he would've made a terrible Bond. This belief leads me to assume he never would've taken the role had it been offered to him.

    He did say that, but he also said that there was a time when it would have interested him.

    I think he actually perhaps actively sought the role, but sense EON probably thought he was too difficult a prospect to sell. Plus, after Lazenby, may be they are wary of actors who are too keen. They seem to like the hard to get types more these days. They almost had to beg both Dalton and Craig to take the part. It took them 20 years to get Dalton!

    Although good looking, he doesn't have the easy, catalogue model appearance of Brosnan. And as we know, EON were looking for a safe choice for GE.

    Definitley one of the potential great lost Bonds though.
  • edited May 2014 Posts: 1,310
    I'd like to throw someone into the STAY AWAY FROM BOND category:

    SAM WORTHINGTON

    It seems like this guy has some sort of following for Bond, and even sites like Esquire have given him their blessing. I suppose they forget that Worthington is one of the dullest and lifeless actors getting big roles nowadays. Chalk up his crap acting talent, and you'd have the formula for the worst James Bond of the franchise.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @SJK91, agreed, I would hate for Worthington to be in the Bond series in any way, shape, or form, especially as 007 himself. Terrible, terrible actor.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    Dominic Cooper

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    If he were cast as Bond, and played it as he did Ian Fleming, I think he'd make a cracking Bond.
  • Posts: 15,131
    Creasy47 wrote:
    @SJK91, agreed, I would hate for Worthington to be in the Bond series in any way, shape, or form, especially as 007 himself. Terrible, terrible actor.

    He's rather wooden, but I doubt he will play it anyway.
  • AceHoleAceHole Belgium, via Britain
    edited May 2014 Posts: 1,731
    Back before Craig was cast I always thought Mark Strong would make a superb 007, in the Dalton/Craig vein. But EON would never go for him as most people think he's too 'dark/badguy material'.

    But he oozes presence & is an Ace actor.
  • Posts: 15,131
    The next Bond is very likely an unknown now.

    Had Roger Moore left after MR I would have pictured Ray Lonnen, Willie Cain in The Sandbaggers, to succeed him.
  • edited May 2014 Posts: 11,425
    Ludovico wrote:
    The next Bond is very likely an unknown now.

    Had Roger Moore left after MR I would have pictured Ray Lonnen, Willie Cain in The Sandbaggers, to succeed him.

    A total unknown? I'm not sure about that. I expect the future Bond is already at work somewhere. Perhaps in the early stages of their career, but already getting noticed. If Craig does 5 films (not sure they can really stretch him to 6), then they'll be looking for a new actor in 3 or 4 years from now. Not sure Craig or any one else wants to see him still playing Bond when he's pushing 50.
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    Getafix wrote:
    Ludovico wrote:
    The next Bond is very likely an unknown now.

    Had Roger Moore left after MR I would have pictured Ray Lonnen, Willie Cain in The Sandbaggers, to succeed him.

    A total unknown? I'm not sure about that. I expect the future Bond is already at work somewhere. Perhaps in the early stages of their career, but already getting noticed. If Craig does 5 films (not sure they can really stretch him to 6), then they'll be looking for a new actor in 3 or 4 years from now. Not sure Craig or any one else wants to see him still playing Bond when he's pushing 50.

    Well, maybe not a total unknown but a relatively unknown actor. I think Craig can make five Bond, but I doubt beyond that point. And they will not pick a successor who is too old, obviously.
  • Posts: 4,813
    Well we don't want someone who's never acted before, that much is certain. It'll probably be someone whose name we've never heard, but when we look him up we'll be like 'oh he was that guy in that movie! He was memorable in that tiny part.'
  • Posts: 15,131
    Well we don't want someone who's never acted before, that much is certain. It'll probably be someone whose name we've never heard, but when we look him up we'll be like 'oh he was that guy in that movie! He was memorable in that tiny part.'

    That is what I mean by an unknown. Apart from Roger Moore and to a lesser extend Pierce Brosnan, every actor playing Bond were "unknown" when cast.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    SJK91 wrote:
    I'd like to throw someone into the STAY AWAY FROM BOND category:

    SAM WORTHINGTON

    It seems like this guy has some sort of following for Bond, and even sites like Esquire have given him their blessing. I suppose they forget that Worthington is one of the dullest and lifeless actors getting big roles nowadays. Chalk up his crap acting talent, and you'd have the formula for the worst James Bond of the franchise.
    Besides Brosnan, yes I agree.
  • Posts: 12,837
    Been watching Skins lately and I've remembered a few people on here suggesting the guy who played Tony as Bond. But I think a better choice might be Joe Dempsie (who played Chris)

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    I dont know..he looks like a bit of a 'pretty boy' to me.
  • edited July 2014 Posts: 1,661
    His name sounds more like a boxer than an actor.

    "And in the blue corner, weighing 160 pounds, and boxing out of MI6 London, it's agent Joe '005'..... Dempsie!"

    ;)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited July 2014 Posts: 24,187
    I'm with @barryy007 on this.
    I have come to prefer my Bonds "good looking" in a way that has the same distance from fashion magazine covers as the Earth has to the Sun. Craig has rather unconventional good looks, and so did Dalton and in his Bond years Moore. Fleming described Bond as looking a bit like Hoagy Carmichael in fact. I couldn't care less for the pretty boys, for they are dull.

    Also, many men look cool in tuxedos but few can be Bond. It really takes a lot more than the occasional fancy dressing to turn a man into Bond. I often see these pictures emerge of popular actors in tuxes whom some of us immediately think would make a fine Bond on the basis of looks alone. There's a lot more to Bond though than just that though. Just saying... ;-)
  • edited July 2014 Posts: 12,837
    He doesn't just look cool in a tux though, I'm not basing this on looks alone, he's a good actor too. I've only seen him in Skins and his character was nothing like Bond in that but I think he's a good enough actor to pull it off. Disagree that he's too much of a pretty boy. He's handsome sure but Bond is meant to be good looking. Here's some more Bond style pictures of him I found

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    And isn't saying he'd be too pretty exactly the same as the idiots over at DCINB saying Craig is too ugly to be Bond?
  • Posts: 11,189
    I was listening to Radio 2 late last night and they had The Wire's Dominic West as their guest. I'm sure it's been said here before but he sounds like he would have been a very good Bond.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    @thelivingroyale, welcome back to you and your hopeless suggestions for next Bond. That guy is not too pretty to be Bond. I would say he is too ugly. He looks like a brat. I want to beat him up with a baseball bat. ;)
  • edited July 2014 Posts: 12,837
    @Thunderfinger Do I have to tell you again? You have shitty taste in Bond actors, therefore your opinion on this topic doesn't matter :P
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    @Thunderfinger Do I have to tell you again? You have shitty taste in Bond actors, therefore your opinion on this topic doesn't matter :P

    Haha, yes you have to tell me again and again. I keep forgetting.
  • edited July 2014 Posts: 15,131
    Gendry from Game of Thrones? I would say yes based on his current look (i.e. I would have never said such a thing watching Skins, but he does look handsome and virile enough as Gendry) but according to imdb he is so darn short. I mean for Bond he is quite short.

    I would put forward a couple of young actors from GofT if they were not all so darn short.
  • edited July 2014 Posts: 4,409
    Jack O'Connell could make a good Bond. He has some fire in him and he has a rather menacing and unruly screen presence.

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    Another young actor who could possibly take on the part in years to come is Henry Lloyd-Hughes. He's very handsome indeed.

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    But for me at the moment, the natural heir to Daniel Craig is Tom Hardy. He's currently filming a Kray twins film in London and his look just screams Bond.

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  • TokolosheTokoloshe Under your bed
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    Have just been watching Channel 4 drama "The Mill" and 35yr old Jamie Draven caught my eye. Add a few years on to him and he could have an outside shot at Bond when the time comes. I'm no good at embedding images but he's worth a Google search.
  • Posts: 15,131
    Never been convinced about Tom Hardy for Bond, for some reason. Henry Lloyd Hughes could work fine, he is about the right age to succeed to Craig, realistically AND he is tall enough.
  • Posts: 12,837
    @Pierce2Daniel Never thought of Jack O Connell but yeah he might be good. He's good looking enough and he's a good enough actor. I've been watching Skins lately and he's probably my favourite character and he was great in Starred Up.
  • Posts: 15,131
    Problem he is another one who is too darn short. I remember all the controversy that came with Craig's height. Not sure they'll go for someone noticeably shorter.
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