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I have only seen photos of him and I'm not convinced, although based on his filmography he probably has the best track record. He's a veteran actor, still fairly unknown and played in major movies that were not merely popcorn movies.
Yeah, you are right.
Yes and no: it’s not hard to imagine Fassbender for example absolutely nailing it. Some of these TV chaps I find a lot harder to imagine in it.
Either way, I think just because we can't imagine it, as I know you agree @mtm, doesn't mean it's not possible or gonna happen, and I also think the "presence" we talk about isn't possible until they've played/auditioned for the role or done something extremely similar within their work.
And also, I don't think doing those similar works helps you get the role.
Yes that's true.
I would assume having shown at least some action capabilities plus a certain kind of charms is a minimum requirement.
But that may just be my fan perspective.
Darby O’Gill and the Little People
TV commercials
The Saint
Um... general body of work? (A Lion in Winter originally?)
Remington Steele
Layer Cake
Sometimes each actor played Bond-esque characters, sometimes not, or at very least they may have played gun-toting action characters before taking on the role. Every single time, each actor felt right for the part in the opinion of the Bond producers. I don’t see why this time around won’t be any different.
Me:
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OK, got you.
I just hope they develop some kind of idea about the incarnation of the character and choose accordingly and not the other way around.
Every actor will develop their incarnation over time and you can always adjust. But I hope they are on the same page and they have somewhere to go with the character.
If it's Craig 2.0, OK (not what I would want, but OK). If it's back to more of a Moore-vibe, great. If they want to do 50s period pieces, I guess go for it.
But don't cast Aidan Turner as younger Craig-Bond or some other inane shit.
We could learn how he made a quiche / omelette at Stacy's in AVTAK.
His love of cooking when not on a mission.
I wouldn't mind seeing if h'es upgraded his coffee maker.
I hope not. That sequence is riveting.
Too old. It will be at least another two years before filming begins. And then that actor would have the role for 3-4 more films. We're talking 2033 for Bond 29.
Craig was 36 when he accepted the role. I suspect the next actor would be around that age, perhaps younger. With that in mind, Robert Pattinson and Jeremy Irvine would be my top choices. But Pattinson has likely taken himself out of the running by playing Batman.
He would be around 37 years old at the time of filming, which leaves him a margin of a little over twelve years before reaching fifty. Assuming each installment would be released every three years, he could easily complete a four movie run at 50. It would be honorable. He seems to me in any case to be a potential candidate, which is likely not to go unnoticed by Eon since he started in Fleabag.
Him, Ben Starr and Tom Bateman are three of the lesser talked about names that are growing on me.
I don't remember seeing him in much of anything, but I must admit I caught Mamma Mia 2 this week on the telly where he actually plays a young Brosnan and I thought he was possibly the least interesting person in the whole thing. He didn't get a lot to work with, but he certainly brought nothing to it.
I remember him in Jekyll and Hyde where he was fine, and he was even sort of an attempted Aiden Turner replica in ITV's recent Sunday night thing (was it set in India?) and he didn't really take off. Maybe he'll get there but I don't find him a hugely strong candidate.