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It may be that we are getting older. Lol.
Not really, no.
No, it's just fashion. Most of the names suggested look fine. As I said on the previous page, Connery wore facial hair most of his life, I guess he was a baby too :D
My hope is that over the next decade I can find a way to have gotten their attention.
I don't know, watching The Persuaders I wouldn't have said Roger and Tony looked incredibly old, but they were both mid 40s. Roger was older than Sean and looked great on it; maybe it just comes down to people being different.
Theo James is fast becoming one of my favourites to take on the role.
But Sean Connery did not need to wear facial hair to look manly!
How do you know these guys are doing that? It's all a bit silly.
Maybe they don't do it for that reason but the result is the same.
I couldn't agree more. Bond is indeed clean shaven in the novels. No designer stubble, no beard. It just looks cheesy, IMHO, and only a handful of actors can really pull it off.
Since the current trend is to advocate bearded actors for Bond I hereby nominate THIS guy to replace Daniel Craig.............
He apparently had good odds in the lead-up to GoldenEye :)) :)) :)) :)) :))
Yeah, him, Liam Neeson and Hugh Grant.
Henry Edwards!
I encountered him at this year's Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Jokeren (1928, aka The Joker), a Danish film by a German director based on a British play set in the French riviera with a British cast.
Henry Edwards plays the Joker, "the sobriquet given to a gentleman adventurer who always wins, and on this occasion he plays the part of a modern Sir Galahad to two charming sisters in distress."
Edwards dashingly embodies an international man of mystery equally skilled at cards and fisticuffs: James Bond avant la lettre. If I was making a Bond during the 1920s he'd be my first choice. But nowadays he's better suited to zombie films.
What did you guys think? I do seem to remember that we considered this film a chance for him to catapult himself to the front of the pack, but that doesn't seem like it has happened, right?
I can see the potential. Good voice is critical, yes, especially in the footsteps of Craig.
Can this fella act (well)?
No but I saw Bodyguard BBC series. He is fairly uncharismatic imo, but a decent -to good actor, nothing that leaves a lasting impression.
DC did, even before CR, have charisma and presence ion screen.
Theo has the look, the voice, the edge Bond needs to have and hopefully (certainly not unimportant) the acting chops. He resembles a young Connery as well somewhat, which is a major plus.
Yeah I couldn't quite see it from Bodyguard either. I thought he was a decent lead in it but not, as you say, on the level of Craig in his pre-Bond roles.
I think it was the only one he made without facial hair after DAF and The Anderson Tapes in 1971. After that, he would never be clean shaven again, other than NSNA.
I guess I can see an argument in favour of keeping Bond’s appearance timeless, because there’s a danger of dating the films quickly if you follow trends (Brosnan’s banker suits, Moore’s bellbottoms). But after a few films that seemed to hark back to the 60s in some ways, it’d be cool to have a Bond that feels very bang up to date and modern again. If the actor can pull it off, then I don’t see the issue myself. Take Tom Hardy and Idris Elba for example, two names that have been suggested a lot for Bond over the last decade. I think they both look great with beards, and I’d have no trouble buying them as Bond even if they kept it.
Yeah I'm not sure it would upset me. A little while ago I was imagining Connery doing another last one around the time of The Rock, and I'm sure if he had he'd have kept the beard on, and I think it would have been fine.
Oh, it doesn’t matter, you say. Keep saying that until nothing really does. You start with the beard, the hair colour and cut, the race, the height, the trademark mannerisms, the innuendos, and somewhere along that path I wonder where the hell is James Bond?
But hey, that’s just my (very worried) opinion.
But you’ve made a pretty sudden jump there from his appearance (which has already changed many times before) to character traits. Not really the same thing imo, and I don’t see why changing his appearance again would be a slippery slope to changing personality traits that have always stayed the same.
A beard in particular is just a fashion thing. No different to Craig’s Bond wearing jeans that Connery wouldn’t be seen dead in, or Moore wearing flares that look ridiculous now. I think it’d be fine.
Excellent post +1
We're just talking about the possibility of a beard, let's get some perspective :)