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True but I think they mean there's higher pressure put on a person of a marginalized group then there is your average Tom Dick or Martin Campbell.
It’ll be the media who will make a big deal out of this.
EoN and their partners always want to make the best film, with worldwide box office success in mind. The skin colour of the actor won’t change that.
I thought we were talking about the director? Either way, I know you’re right.
My issue with Turner is that while he looks reasonably Bondian, I've seen nothing from him that tells me he'd bring anything unique to the role. In that sense he reminds me a lot of Clive Owen. While I was quite young at the time I remember there was a bit of online buzz around his name for the role. Even then it struck me as unlikely.
I wouldn't say Craig's broken the mould as such, but rather he's carried on what was already the case to begin with - with a role like Bond it's not just a case of having black hair and looking good in a tuxedo. Connery wasn't exactly a conventional candidate either. I'd say it's opened up the possibilities of who could be Bond, but there's also a case to be made that the producers will ask themselves specifically 'what do we want from this next Bond' and consider actors accordingly based on this.
But yes, I suspect we'll get a 'left field' candidate in the sense that few here or in the press would have considered them. But I think this is usually the case with these types of roles anyway. I don't know whether the next actor will be non-white (certainly in big films nowadays casting someone of a different race too the main character is actually pretty rare in practice, but we'll almost certainly get a more 'diverse' film regardless) but I think they'll be different to Craig in one way or another.
Dunno if I’m right @NickTwentyTwo ( 🤷♂️), but @ByRoyalDecree was saying they better not make a s*itty film if they cast a man of colour.
I think the stakes are always high while making a Bond picture. It’s a pressure cooker whether they cast Brosnan (so many expectations on his shoulders when cast, what if he didn’t live up to the hype and faltered?), or Craig (blond, short, ugly).
But it’s mainly the media that hype this stuff.
Audiences will always go and see the latest James Bond film. It’s up to the producers to make sure they make the films well enough so that audiences keep returning for further adventures.
All true.
Believe me, once Bond gets into the public domain, we're gonna have a black, LGBTQ+ and trans Bond everywhere, not saying that it would be bad, but...
Lol, literary Bond is already in the public domain here in Canada.
Bond won’t get into the public domain, it’s a trademark. You’ll no more be able to make and market a film starring James Bond 007 in 20 years time than you will be able to make and sell your own Coca Cola right now.
I think NTTD suffered a slight backlash with the leak Nomi was going to be a female 007. I felt sorry for Lashana, they made so much of her character in the initial trailers and marketing, then in the film they barely wrote Nomi as a worthwhile character.
The endless delays gave the marketing team time to readjust and focus on the scale of the film and it being the end of an era.
They seemed aware of the backlash to Craig's casting (in Being James Bond) when they mentioned the box office numbers of Casino Royale, Wilson and Craig agreed they could have done even better without the silly bad press around the film.
I was too young to pay attention last time around, but if this trashing becomes a ritual it actually sounds like fun.
Layer Cake was a relatively obscure movie. The general public and the newspapers use famous movies, TV seroes and other sources as references. They look at who is known at that time, who looks good in a tux during a gala, etc.
I remember that he also lost his teeth.
Aidan Turner? Lack of chin. Sources say the VFX team have been working overtime to digitally enhance his lower face. Film to be delayed by 2 months...
Jack O'Connell? Trashy smile. Specific 'smile' coaches have been hired in order to work with him and teach him to contort his mouth in a smoother, more 'Bondian' way. So far the results have been mixed... Film to be delayed by weeks.
Harry Styles? Can't act. As a result he keeps on getting nervous onset and sings his lines. Apparently this has been the case with his other film roles, except Dunkirk, mostly due to no one saying much in that film anyway. ADR to be done using a dubbing actor. Film to be delayed for an unspecified amount of time...
Timothee Chalamet? No, just no... Sources say that EON, realising what a horrible mistake they've made, have had to kill him, making it look like an onset accident and will announce it soon. Craig to return as Bond...
You made me laugh, although none of this is unlikely to actually happen.
As an actor I can say personally from experience that I went through an intensive 18-month smile clinic with 16 different smile coaches that cost about $50,000 and it's all bullshit, total waste of time and money; they might have to just go with someone else.
You are not making these numbers up? Wow! :| That is one expensive training!
It would be a creatively brave decision, Barbara likes those. He's fun and interesting to watch. He's the Goldilocks level of famous. He's a bit of a chameleon, could act the socks off the part.
He maybe doesn't have the 'classic look' but that concept was brilliantly smashed to bits by DC.
I give you Matt Smith.
All of this is true, he was brilliant as Philip in The Crown, but for me he's too weird for Bond.
Weird is a fantastic thing, but less so for Bond IMO.
Yeah, weirdly once you've played Patrick Bateman (as he has) then you kind of show a potential for Bond I think! :D