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That is the one thing Boyle was going to bring to the film that I'd found genuinely interesting: an unknown veteran actor with a classical Fleming villain background. I'm okay with Safin's casting, although I wasn't overly impressed with him. But I long for the time of casting unknown (at least in the English speaking world) actors for Bond villains.
I wouldn't bother! Its awful. Considering its from the great John Frankenheimar, one of his many misfires!
Yes that was me, it was always me, the author... Oh, never mind.
He would have been a very menacing Blofeld I believe. Just the thought of him delivering that previous line! Awesome
Isabelle Huppert
Colman Domingo
Jeremy Irons
Giancarlo Esposito
Pekka Strang
Tilda Swinton
Thandiwe Newton
Antonio Banderas
Björn Gustafsson. Born in Sweden. Swedish comedian (theater guy)
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm2930714/
Playing ''second'' / final husband of Astrid Lindgren (Alba August that play younger Astrid is in real life his girlfriend. Mabey some day i whant to see as Bondgirl) in Becoming Astrid / Unga Astrid (2018) a Swedish/Danish movie.
In Spy (2015) he play Anton.
Let's get Jeremy Irons and Tilda Swinton as the next generation's Blofeld (post-Thunderball) and Irma Bunt. And yes, I would love another take on Blofeld in the next generation of Bond films.
Yes to Isabelle Huppert. All she needs is some intimidating brute for muscle.
Tilda Swinton is great but IMO fits the baddie cliche a touch too well (plus I am getting vibes of Cate Blanchett in The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull...)
Having seen Breaking Bad, I will say yes to Esposito immediately.
Yeah he’d be great. I remember suggesting him as Blofeld a few years ago (I know race swapping can be controversial, but Blofeld’s essentially a new character every time anyway, even in the novels). The man was born to play a Bond villain.
Yeah that’s a good point to be fair. The time to cast him was probably a few years ago, just after Breaking Bad. Maybe Cranston would be a better option. He could pull off a good Bond villain in his sleep, and his career has been varied enough post BB that I don’t think it’d feel as derivative as casting Esposito.
I really hope we get another female villain next though, just for the sake of variety.
Similar-looking Rufus Sewell was just in The Man in the High Castle, but if he is not worried about typecasting, I'd totally want to see him:
...and ignoring the fact that he is about to play a Marvel villain, I'd watch Christian Bale in anything.
Mark Strong would have been a brilliant Bond in the Fleming mould.
Still very young, especially for a lead villain, but I consider him to be the most promising young German actor around at the moment. Fantastic actor in general and can get extremely physically intimidating when he wants to. Last year he won the German film prize for both lead actor and supporting actor, which I assume is pretty rare.
Doesn't really have international credits yet. I think Bad Banks also ran in other countries, so maybe some of you have seen him in that.
The other one from that generation is Frederick Lau.
Arguably the more accomplished of the two, but not really someone I can see as a Bond villain.
Coincidentally, this was published today:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/oct/28/mark-strong-acting-insecurity-life-without-father