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Yes, Rogueish is perfect description. There is an episode of Poldark where he gathers a group and they sail to France to rescue a friend who is in imprisoned during the french revolution. Turner captures that swashbuckling spirit brilliantly, which is why I think he would bring a lot to Bond for a short cost.
Glad to hear it.
Agreed, very exciting. Setting the date of Nov 8th could mean that Craig is back, or it could mean he had decided to quit. There's no telling which way it could go!
Turner is certainly a lot more classical in terms of looks, but I'm sorry he's just too much of a pretty boy for me and no amount of bulking up will change that. Shave his stubble and he could easily play someone in their early twenties. He's more Whishaw than Craig for me. On top of that I don't think he has the acting chops - and I've seen him in pretty much everything he's been in.
Shave Craig's hair short and he could play someone in his early sixties, yet you're fine with him playing Bond again. Why is it a problem to be (slightly) too young, but not too old?
I don't think Turner in 2019 will look younger than Connery in Dr No anyway.
Bond is a man, not a boy. Old man Bond, fine with me. Hipster, millennial Bond. Forget it.
You're on shaky ground comparing Turner to Connery. Connery had the sort of machismo Aiden could only dream of. There's a ruggedness to Connery in DN that simply isn't there with Turner. Nor is there the danger that Dalton brings. This is a guy with youthful looks, which is fine, but I'm in no way convinced that's going to change all of sudden. He's hardly aged in the last decade.
Fair enough. Given his work thus far, I'm not actually sure what he'd do as Bond. But he's certainly versatile.
Post of the week.
He does look young though. It's tricky. Back in the 60s they could cast a 28 year old and he'd be credible as a seasoned agent. Now? If they want someone who looks like Craig or Connery they'd have to go older, and it's difficult to do that and find an actor who isn't too famous/already attached to a franchise. Longetivity also becomes an issue. It was alright when they did them every two years but if they cast a 40 something actor now we'd get two or three films out of him at best before he got too old.
Still though, I think Jack O'Connell would work as a younger Bond. A lot of the current crop of candidates just seem like skinny indie looking teenagers. But with him, he's young but still has masculinity in spades.
This was taken a couple of years ago. Shave the bum fluff, weather him a bit ala Brosnan in GE and I think he could easily pull it off. He's worked with Yann Demange before so if he does have the directing gig and Craig is out, hopefully he'll keep O'Connell in mind.
Do still believe Luke Evans would be one of the better candidates. As good an actor as Norton, and the voice for the part. Can't really have Bond saying «Bond... James Bond» with an overly soft voice, can we?
Brosnan has enough fans.
I assume this is a joke, most amusing, ha ha. In this incarnation would 007 have a genetic growth deficiency disorder? Jack O'Connell is 5 ft 7 in - i.e. a midget.
I've only seen him in Money Monster where he had a meaty part. Sadly George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Catriona Balfe and Dominic West were far more memorable and charismatic than he was. Perhaps it was just an off performance (hopefully).
PS: Balfe should be considered for a role in a Bond film imho.
Well google is telling me 5 ft 8, but to be homest I don't put that much importance on height. Movie magic and all that. Sylvester Stallone is apparently 5ft 8 at best in real life and still managed to convincingly play a heavyweight boxer. Craig is the shortest Bond so far and it didn't stop women fawning over him when he came out the sea in CR. Tom Cruise is 5ft 7 at most and they manage to hide it fairly well in all his films.
Height isn't an important part of Bond for me, yeah Fleming described him as tall but none of the Bond actors really fit his description. Bond's height isn't important. He isn't Jack Reacher. In terms of appearance, for me he just needs to come across as manly, good looking and having genuine sex appeal and I don't think height has much impact on that, at least not in films. Height (as long as he's not distractingly short), hair colour, I'd even go as far to argue in this day and age skin colour are just arbitary details that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. I've never seen any posts from the women on here saying an actor is too short for example.
Look at him standing beside this kid. I don't see Bond there.
I don't think he looks particularly Bondian anyways.
You and me both.
Chris Vance, his Season 7 episode co-star on the other hand...
Fours a crowd
No O'Loughlin is perfect , he is charming , athletic, elegant , he is more charismatic than cavill , Turner , Hiddleston or others; In hawaii 5-0 he plays a navy seal, so yeah he moves like a american soldier and not like a english spy. But that not a problem because he can change that and be an english spy to my mind. ( very sorry for my english , im french )