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I thought Rik Van Nutter was really good too. And he looked a bit like Jack Lord, enough so that they looked like the same character. Sure, he was a bit thick, but I think he was written this way as a faire valoir.
I can see that. Van Nutter definitely made me think of Fleming. With Wright, he's the only actor who's offered a viable case for a Bond spin-off. The thought of a spin-off makes me feel ill, but after his appearance in CR I remember thinking a Felix TV series is something I'd totally buy into.
Hedison was too old in LTK and Terry way too young, especially opposite Dalton.
Actually, Terry was 37. My ability to do math momentarily departed me. I thought Hedison looked good in LTK, I'd thought he and Cec Linder in GF were about the same age, even though Hedison was 20 years older.
Then my previous comment was presumptuous. Terry never struck me as very good. I think the best Bond-Leiter couple was maybe the very first, although Moore-Hedison and Craig-Wright are very good.
It always really bothered me that Wade couldn't just be Felix. That being said, I would love to see Wright back. He's the first to bring any actual personality to the role since Hedison in LTK and I like how he hasn't been recast (hope it stays that way). I think he'll be brought back in B24. On that note, am I the only one who has noticed the reboot films have gone on roughly the same trajectory with Quantum/SPECTRE as the first films? In CR and DN a villainous organization is introduced but we don't dive deeply into it. FRWL and QOS look a little bit more deeply into the organization, but it's still shadowy to Bond. Then in GF and SF the organization is absent. It seems logical, then, to assume that Bond 24/25 will be for Quantum what TB/YOLT were for SPECTRE (fingers crossed!). I hope they also follow the trajectory with Felix (ie bring him back for 24!)
He's my favorite too, next to Hedison. Other than those two, no other actors stick out as anything close to the "quintessential" Felix Leiter.
Completely agree with all of this. Wright is a good actor but I don't like his Felix. Wright's Felix is a miserable git and he doesn't seem like he's friends with Bond at all. Hedison wasn't brilliant but to me he was the only Felix who seemed like he was actually friends with Bond.
I want Dean Norris to play Felix next time. If it is Wright again though I hope they write him better. Have him lighten up a bit.
I noticed it too, about the arc. I am all for a return of Quantum, in fact it is essential I think, as long as they don't go the way YOLT and DAF went with Quantum. And I agree with you about Wright and Leiter.
I would call Wright's Felix miserable, but to be fair he did have a lot to be unhappy about, prominently in QoS when his own agency was doing deals with evil and corrupt individuals and attempting to stop Bond in his tracks. And then there's Beam...
Sadly I can't find that picture Brady made.
It's on the Originals thread :)
;)
Wouldn't we all? I too agree that Jeffrey Wright is most excellent as Felix Leiter.
Yes that is the one. =))
That would indeed be cool. I'd love to see Wright's Felix finally get a chance to get his gun off. And no, that isn't a euphemism...
Yes, I suppose we've not really seen him in action as such yet, though we rarely do with Felix Leiter, if you think about it.