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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.
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.
If he were cast as Bond, and played it as he did Ian Fleming, I think he'd make a cracking Bond.
He's rather wooden, but I doubt he will play it anyway.
But he oozes presence & is an Ace actor.
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.
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.
"And in the blue corner, weighing 160 pounds, and boxing out of MI6 London, it's agent Joe '005'..... Dempsie!"
;)
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... ;-)
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?
Haha, yes you have to tell me again and again. I keep forgetting.
I would put forward a couple of young actors from GofT if they were not all so darn short.
Another young actor who could possibly take on the part in years to come is Henry Lloyd-Hughes. He's very handsome indeed.
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.