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Climb down off your high horse. I'll say what I want about Lazenby, it's an opinion. I happen to care about this series, something Lazenby never did and for that he gets no respect from me. I'm sick of the constant romanticising, 'if only he'd done another, he'd have been the best'. Bollocks. The guy didn't have it and for the record, crying in a scene does not make one a superb actor, I've seen Danny Dyer cry.
George was incredibly lucky that every bit of talent around him was top notch. Brozzer, on the other hand, had to compete with a maelstrom of chopping and changing regards writers and directors. Lazenby would've bombed in a similar situation, despite being the 'tough guy' he implies. He's pyschologically the weakest of the lot, and he proved that adequately with his immature handling of the whole debacle.
So you criticise @RC7 for having an opinion and then you immediately post this afterwards:
Irony alert!!
I'm also not positive Brosnan meant it in any harsh way, it could've just come off that way. The guy just got the role of a life time and was probably worried about what we all would be worried about had we been in the same position, "Will I be the next George Lazenby?". I've never heard the interview he said this in so I could be completely wrong.
Yes, I think he probably meant he didn't want to suffer the same fate as Lazenby, i.e. be the actor to play Bond for one movie, then have his acting career go nowhere. And to be fair, it is a legitimate concern.
But what he said about OHMSS being a sad movie was undeserved, and overall Brosnan was tactless. Given the general attitude of Lazenby towards Bond and his fellow Bond actors, he probably deserved to be put down a few notches. That does not mean Brosnan was the one who should have done the job.
Actually Brosnan didn't have any Bond films under his belt at the time. Those comments were made during pre-production for GE. Brosnan had zero credibility at that point but already thought he was the cat's meow. Maybe that's why Brosnan and Lazenby don't like one another. Two huge egos clashing.
Lazenby has gone on record a few times saying that after he left the role Cubby Broccoli used his connections to basically have him blacklisted in Hollywood. Hence the only work he was able to get was in his native Australia or low-budget Hollywood productions. You have to take that with a grain of salt as Lazenby will obviously try to blame his short-comings on someone other than himself (although he has admitted to being immature at the time). Plus I'm not sure Broccoli would have the connections or even care enough to pull off such a feat. Still I do have a felling Lazenby wasn't the only one holding Lazenby back.
Broz seems like a nice man who maybe shouldn't have said what he said at the Goldeneye press conference.
Laz seems like a grouch who screwed up a good thing, never lived it down and is jealous of all the others that have played the role and reacted pretty strongly to Broz's words. The stuff about the feminine Bond is just out of bounds, if you ask me.
Lastly, despite Laz being not the nicest man around, his picture is way better than the Broz films.
In the end, George has only himself to blame despite making a damn fine film, one of the best.
That's just scary. :-SS
Actually the video @Bain123 posted with Brosnan taking a jab at Lazenby on the Craig Ferguson show is less than a year old. So clearly there's still some bad blood.
And yes Brosnon is easily the most effeminate Bond. Ironically Craig Ferguson even joked about that when it was first announced that Brosnan wouldn't be reprising his role by saying "Pierce is a nice guy. Really a nice guy. But let's face it even I could kick his ass. He looks like he moisterizes". But it was in good fun though.
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/7134/great-news....court-lifts-booze-ban-on-george-lazenby-/p1
Connery, Craig and Lazenby walk that line very well. The others not so much.
All three also managed to get up close and personal with the enemy.
-Connery - strangling Grant
-Laz - choking the thug during the escape from Piz Gloria
-Craig - beating Dryden's contact and the stairwell fight
My point exactly. Brosnan had not yet so much as filmed his first scene in his first Bond film yet he already saw fit to criticize one of his predecessors in a room full of paparazzi. This furthers my theory that Brosnan also has an enormous ego but unlike Lazenby was better at hiding it.
I do not think Brosnan wanted to insult Lazenby personaly but more the situation that came from Lazenby his own choice, which is a situation that NO actor wants to be in.
Lazenby is known for being a drunk prick who talks more rubbish than he has ever been worth.
That said I love OHMSS more than anything Brosnan has made for EON, but I blame them for playing it too safe.
Lazenby was awesome as Bond, IMHO of course.
With Broz, alas, there are many issues.
But because he refused a contract to continue as Bond he is seen as a failure?
Maybe he is from where Brosnan is standing, but from where I am standing George is a success.
:)) I think you get the point!!
My thoughts exactly. He is successful BECAUSE he played Bond only once, thats what makes him stand out, like Paul McGann stands out for only playing the Doctor once!