Who should/could be a Bond actor?

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  • I won't sport a beard. Nice try, betas.
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    I'm pretty firmly set on the tradition that Bond doesn't wear a beard (unless he's been tortured for 14 months).

    Santa Claus, on the other hand is a character I firmly support in the beard department.

    Perhaps the next actor should experiment and don a Santa beard during his opening gunbarrel sequence, just to see if it works? Maybe a Bond who wears a Santa beard will take off and become the next fashionable trend for the 2020's?
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    To be honest, a stubble I wouldn't mind per se, Bond is a busy man. There are far worse things that could alter Bond, discussed until infinitum on here.

    Stubble would be fine. Beard, no way.
  • Theo James wouldn't be a bad shout though I'd have a question mark regarding charisma. Charisma is the main reason people like Madden and Cavill should be nowhere near consideration.

    I personally feel Chris Hemsworth would be a good shout though he may demand a bigger pay cheque and obviously has the Marvel link.
  • DraxCucumberSandwichDraxCucumberSandwich United Kingdom
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    For charisma I’d plump for Dev Patel
  • Jordo007Jordo007 Merseyside
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    Zarozzor wrote: »
    I do like Theo James as a potential Bond if Turner doesn’t land the part.

    This is exactly how I feel too mate

    On the stubble/beard thing, I hope Bond remains clean shaved unless the story warrants it.

    Most guys have beards lately, it'll be cool to see Bond be different and remain clean shaved. He shouldn't have to heighten his masculinity with facial hair
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    Jordo007 wrote: »

    On the stubble/beard thing, I hope Bond remains clean shaved unless the story warrants it.

    Bond in disguise would be good. A stick on tash or beard haha, like in Octopussy when doubling for Colonel Toro. More cloak and daggers.
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I'm pretty firmly set on the tradition that Bond doesn't wear a beard (unless he's been tortured for 14 months).

    Santa Claus, on the other hand is a character I firmly support in the beard department.

    Perhaps the next actor should experiment and don a Santa beard during his opening gunbarrel sequence, just to see if it works? Maybe a Bond who wears a Santa beard will take off and become the next fashionable trend for the 2020's?

    For me, a man Bond's age means one thing: hipster.
  • Revelator wrote: »
    I finally found someone I'd like to see as the next James Bond. Unfortunately he died a year before Ian Fleming published Casino Royale.

    Henry Edwards!

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    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."

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    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.

    From those pics I see a perfect Dracula.

    Is there any young actor who see some Henry Edwards in them.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    I see a pretty good Simon Templar.

    Joining the multitude of actors who propose themselves as the next Bond, is now Dwayne Johnson.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I'm pretty firmly set on the tradition that Bond doesn't wear a beard (unless he's been tortured for 14 months).

    Santa Claus, on the other hand is a character I firmly support in the beard department.

    Perhaps the next actor should experiment and don a Santa beard during his opening gunbarrel sequence, just to see if it works? Maybe a Bond who wears a Santa beard will take off and become the next fashionable trend for the 2020's?

    For me, a man Bond's age means one thing: hipster.

    You see Roger in North Sea Hijack and think he's a hipster?! Okaaay :))
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    I post this with the caveat that I was 22 when I took it, and I wouldn't want to be Bond *now* but rather in about a decade.


    As an aside, I very much had THIS in mind when I bought the above suit, probably my favourite Bond outfit that isn't a tuxedo or business suit:

    https://www.bondsuits.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/The-World-Is-Not-Enough-Cream-Linen-Suit.jpg
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    mtm wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I'm pretty firmly set on the tradition that Bond doesn't wear a beard (unless he's been tortured for 14 months).

    Santa Claus, on the other hand is a character I firmly support in the beard department.

    Perhaps the next actor should experiment and don a Santa beard during his opening gunbarrel sequence, just to see if it works? Maybe a Bond who wears a Santa beard will take off and become the next fashionable trend for the 2020's?

    For me, a man Bond's age means one thing: hipster.

    You see Roger in North Sea Hijack and think he's a hipster?! Okaaay :))

    Roger was getting old then so no. Different times too. A man in his 30s with a big beard however? Yeah, the first thing that comes to my mind is hipster.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I'm pretty firmly set on the tradition that Bond doesn't wear a beard (unless he's been tortured for 14 months).

    Santa Claus, on the other hand is a character I firmly support in the beard department.

    Perhaps the next actor should experiment and don a Santa beard during his opening gunbarrel sequence, just to see if it works? Maybe a Bond who wears a Santa beard will take off and become the next fashionable trend for the 2020's?

    For me, a man Bond's age means one thing: hipster.

    You see Roger in North Sea Hijack and think he's a hipster?! Okaaay :))

    Roger was getting old then so no. Different times too. A man in his 30s with a big beard however? Yeah, the first thing that comes to my mind is hipster.

    He was still Bond, ergo he was Bond’s age.
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    mtm wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I'm pretty firmly set on the tradition that Bond doesn't wear a beard (unless he's been tortured for 14 months).

    Santa Claus, on the other hand is a character I firmly support in the beard department.

    Perhaps the next actor should experiment and don a Santa beard during his opening gunbarrel sequence, just to see if it works? Maybe a Bond who wears a Santa beard will take off and become the next fashionable trend for the 2020's?

    For me, a man Bond's age means one thing: hipster.

    You see Roger in North Sea Hijack and think he's a hipster?! Okaaay :))

    Roger was getting old then so no. Different times too. A man in his 30s with a big beard however? Yeah, the first thing that comes to my mind is hipster.

    He was still Bond, ergo he was Bond’s age.

    Yeah but he played Bond as a far more advanced age thar he would realistically have. If anything and that may be for the controversial opinion thread, but Ffolkes was a far more suited character for his age than Bond was at that time. And don't get me wrong: I'm glad he played Bond for FYEO and OP (I think AVTAK was one too many), but an operative and a womaniser of his age was stretching credibility nevertheless. And let's not forget that Moore played the anti-Bond in this movie. Two very different characters, two very different looks, even though they're played by the same actor. And on a side note, I would have loved to see Roger Moore as the old sea wolf Ffolkes for more than one movie.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Not a hipster though.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    It'll never happen, but I'd be quite happy with Benedict Cumberbatch as Bond.
    He might not be the classic look for Bond, but he's a fantastic actor. Of all the roles I've seen him in, he never phones it in. Very committed to the part. His age could be getting the better of him, but he's not too old.
    After Daniel Craig, he'd be a good follow up Bond.
  • AceHoleAceHole Belgium, via Britain
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    Benny wrote: »
    It'll never happen, but I'd be quite happy with Benedict Cumberbatch as Bond.
    He might not be the classic look for Bond, but he's a fantastic actor. Of all the roles I've seen him in, he never phones it in. Very committed to the part. His age could be getting the better of him, but he's not too old.
    After Daniel Craig, he'd be a good follow up Bond.

    Won't happen. 007 will have sex-appeal. Babs will only cast a leading man that gives her the, er, tingles...
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    AceHole wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    It'll never happen, but I'd be quite happy with Benedict Cumberbatch as Bond.
    He might not be the classic look for Bond, but he's a fantastic actor. Of all the roles I've seen him in, he never phones it in. Very committed to the part. His age could be getting the better of him, but he's not too old.
    After Daniel Craig, he'd be a good follow up Bond.

    Won't happen. 007 will have sex-appeal. Babs will only cast a leading man that gives her the, er, tingles...

    That's a very narrow minded and silly view @AceHole
    Quite juvenile.
  • Benny wrote: »
    It'll never happen, but I'd be quite happy with Benedict Cumberbatch as Bond.
    He might not be the classic look for Bond, but he's a fantastic actor. Of all the roles I've seen him in, he never phones it in. Very committed to the part. His age could be getting the better of him, but he's not too old.
    After Daniel Craig, he'd be a good follow up Bond.

    I remember around the time of TTSS' release I read Carte Blanche and couldn't help but picture Bond looking like BC.
  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
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    Tom Holland really wants the job.
    His Spider-Man co-star Jacob Batalon says: “He talks about being James Bond a lot. A lot a lot.”
  • JeremyBondonJeremyBondon Seeking out odd jobs with Oddjob @Tangier
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    Tom Holland really wants the job.
    His Spider-Man co-star Jacob Batalon says: “He talks about being James Bond a lot. A lot a lot.”

    Thanks for the laugh. Perhaps Robin, next to Batman. Oh wait, scratch that.
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    Too boyish looking.
  • AceHoleAceHole Belgium, via Britain
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    Benny wrote: »
    AceHole wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    It'll never happen, but I'd be quite happy with Benedict Cumberbatch as Bond.
    He might not be the classic look for Bond, but he's a fantastic actor. Of all the roles I've seen him in, he never phones it in. Very committed to the part. His age could be getting the better of him, but he's not too old.
    After Daniel Craig, he'd be a good follow up Bond.

    Won't happen. 007 will have sex-appeal. Babs will only cast a leading man that gives her the, er, tingles...

    That's a very narrow minded and silly view @AceHole
    Quite juvenile.

    That's quite the moral high ground...

    To be perfectly serious - I don't actually think it's too far from the truth. Think about it, for a moment:

    a) She was quite frank about her attraction to DC and I have no doubt that was part of the reason he was casted

    b) her father, Cubby, asked his wife Dana before casting Connery if she thought he had sex-appeal - Cubby was adamant he needed a man that women lusted after otherwise the character would not work.


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    I would be fine with Cumberbatch
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Risico007 wrote: »
    I would be fine with Cumberbatch

    He could play Q perhaps. Q Cumberbatch.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    Particularly with A. Turner, who for roles frequently has long hair and facial hair, I’ve pictured a PTS where we see the new actor on a mission to rescue to rescue a beautiful woman, a scientist perhaps, who is being held hostage, He’s far removed from the suave image of Bond that is expected
    Risico007 wrote: »
    I would be fine with Cumberbatch

    He could play Q perhaps. Q Cumberbatch.

    Even as M, but in no way is he Bond.

  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Benny wrote: »
    It'll never happen, but I'd be quite happy with Benedict Cumberbatch as Bond.
    He might not be the classic look for Bond, but he's a fantastic actor. Of all the roles I've seen him in, he never phones it in. Very committed to the part. His age could be getting the better of him, but he's not too old.
    After Daniel Craig, he'd be a good follow up Bond.

    I think he could do it, certainly: he's a strong leading man. I think there may be others better suited to it, I don't know if he has everything I'd want from Bond, but if he were to do a Bond film I don't think there would be a lack of a good lead to it.
    I always liked how Sherlock started to link in more and more with the Bond films in subtle ways, with Mycroft indicating that M was a colleague of his at one point. There was a clue in an early episode which seemed to indicate that Bond was fictional in their world, but they seemed to move away from that.
  • DraxCucumberSandwichDraxCucumberSandwich United Kingdom
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    Aiden Turner would continue the old tradition of bringing back actors from previous Bond movies to play entirely different characters.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Aiden Turner would continue the old tradition of bringing back actors from previous Bond movies to play entirely different characters.

    How do you mean?
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